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It will cost billions of dollars to compensate
Tasmanian forestry workers if the RFA is not honoured. |
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If old-growth logging is stopped in Tasmania,
at least 8000 dedicated forestry workers could lose their
jobs. |
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That's thousands of school children coming home
to learn their parents are unemployed and their future uncertain. |
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If Tasmania loses its premium sawmilling and
veneer industries, thousands of Tasmanians will be forced
to move interstate. |
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This could cause real estate values to plummet
by up to 50% as the market is flooded with houses for sale
and the numbers of buyers is limited. |
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Tasmania's economy will fall to all-time lows
and the State will again become a basket case as investors
take their money elsewhere and retail spending significantly
declines. |
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The heart will be ripped from regional communities
as unemployed forestry workers relocate, forcing small businesses,
schools and hospitals to close. |
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The Greens have already cost this state 10,000
jobs. |
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they are yet to create one job. |
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86 per cent of old growth is protected. |
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95 per cent of wilderness is protected. |
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the economy is continually damaged by the Greens. |
