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A couple of days ago Greens Senator Bob Brown worried about losing his senate seat because he could be forced into bankruptcy if he didn’t pay Forestry Tasmania $240,000 in court costs following a legal dispute over logging in the Wielangta Forest. I haven’t followed the case closely but Brown tells it in brief like this:

Bob Brown won his original court case to stop Forestry Tasmania logging the magnificent Wielangta forest, but the win was overturned on a technicality by the full bench of the Federal Court after the Howard Government joined forces with the Lennon Government to change the law.

Helen in this post after Brown had won the case and before he subsequently lost on appeal, points out that Gunns is more than happy to use court cases to frighten people into silence. Brown himself thought that Forestry Tasmania were pursuing the debt with unusual vigour and that a whole posse of people were out to get him.

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