Fighting the Big Gunns in Tasmania
by Tom Price, Special to CorpWatch
www.CorpWatch.org
March 14th, 2005

Along a narrow dirt road, about 90 minutes from Tasmania’s provincial capital of Hobart lies the small, residential community of Lucaston. It's an area of rugged, natural beauty that draws people looking to live a quiet life.

Gunns 20
By: John Collins
New Matilda (www.NewMatilda.com)
Wednesday 26 January 2005

'Tasmania first suffered disconnection from the mainland, which left its landscape buckled and eruptive; then it was singled out as a place of penance and the site for an experiment in genocide. The settlers pathetically strove to reconcile Arcady with Alcatraz; since then, the spoliation of mountains and the damming of wild rivers hint at a desire to punish the unyielding place into subservience.' Peter Conrad in Down Home: Revisiting Tasmania

by Peter Bartlett . Melbourne Age . Australia

The 'McGunns' Controversy

Who benefits when a company sues to save its reputation?

McSpotlight note:

The article below describes a highly controversial court case launched in December in Australia. A massive woodchip/logging company, Gunns Ltd, is hoping to intimidate and suppress a widespread campaign which is successfully exposing their environmentally-damaging practices. Parallels were immediately made throughout Australia with the McLibel case, which has had extensive and positive coverage there over the last 10 years.

20 Gunns Salute for Tasmanian Environmentalists
16 Dec 2004 10:37 GMT

From http://www.indymedia.org/en/2004/12/112561.shtml

On Tuesday, a writ was lodged against 20 different groups and individuals, including The Wilderness Society and Doctors for Forests, by Gunns Ltd of Tasmania, Australia. They are attempting to sue for loss of business, to the tune of $6.36 million (AUD).