Australia: Aussie Greens demand to know details of logging and mining on Tiwi islands

Greens Senator Rachael Siewert has rejected concerns a Senate inquiry into mining and forestry operations on the Tiwi Islands in the Northern Territory is a waste of time or money. Senator Siewert says the Greens have concerns about the transparency of forestry operations on the islands. “There’s been ongoing concerns about the extent of logging and the environmental damage that has been caused by the logging activities, it’s been raised a large number of times and we felt it was time that it was looked into once and for all,” she said.

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Senator Siewert says she was not fully satisfied with answers provided
about the industry to a Senate Estimates hearing. “Some of the
economics…

there wasn’t a clear indication of the number of jobs that had been generated – particularly for local people – where some of the timber has been marketed, those sorts of things that did raise further concerns that didn’t appear to be at that time clear answers to questions that were asked.”

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