Robin
Gray:
ex-Tasmanian Premier
& current Gunns
Director
and Shareholder |
By Teresa Dowding @
GREEN
LEFT WEEKLY
HOBART 1989 -- Royal commissioner William Carter released
his long-awaited report into the attempted bribery of Labor
MP Jim Cox by Tasmanian media magnate Edmund Rouse on November
5. ........ The royal commission was established to determine
who was involved in the bribery attempt other than Rouse
and his go-between, Tony Aloi. Carter's report confirmed
that Robin Gray, the
then LIBERAL
premier, had acted “deceitfully and dishonestly”
and had been “misleading and deceptively evasive”.....
GREEN
LEFT WEEKLY... |
The 1989 royal
commission also investigated a group called CONCERNED
CITIZENS FOR TASMANIA. The commission found this “fictitious”
group was conceived by then premier Robin Gray (who is
now on the board of Gunns).
The commission also found that the deception which attended
the placement of an advertisement and petition by the
Concerned Citizens for Tasmania was deliberately designed
to mislead the community into believing that a group of
well meaning and concerned people had come together spontaneously
to express their concern, and to invite others to join
them in voicing their protest about the Labor/Green Accord.
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SOME YEARS LATER IN THE TASMANIAN ELECTION OF 2006, ROBIN
GRAY IS REPORTED TO BE A CONTRIBUTOR TO THE SECRETLY FUNDED
TASMANIANS
FOR A BETTER FUTURE.
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It is a matter of undisputed historical record that the
worst government in Tasmania’s post-war history was
Robin Gray’s majority Liberal Government, which left
the state financially ruined and economically unprepared
to take advantage of the most sustained boom in post-war
history. While the other Australian states prospered,
Tasmania languished in recession until 2001.
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Amongst other things, Robin Gray was infamous for recalling
Parliament in 1989 on North Broken Hill Ltd letterhead.
North's subsidiary North Forest Products (now owned by
Gunns),
was the forest vandal of the time.
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SETTING THE SCENE - Robin Gray the former Premier, Liberal
Government Minister and latterly corporation businessman
and lobbyist who usually, manufactures the bullets and
gets other individuals to fire them. His ministerial oversight
of Tasmanian Primary Industries saw the politicisation
and outsourcing of the core activities of the state department
responsible for the management of Natural Resources [DPIWE].
The legacy of that massive restructure are seen today
in the present culture of this Government Agency. As the
"gatekeeper" to public policy related
to Natural Resource Management (such as in natural environment
& water quality) in the so called "Natural
State", the injection of political management
into this department in the early 1990s, has had ramifications
that will go on for decades to come.
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