over 80% of Tasmanians voted for the parties that supported the pulp mill's approval. Even in Turnbull's and Garrett's Sydney electorates where a millionaire silvetail sent Flanagan's article to every elector, the vote for Garrett and Turnbull went up. Flanagan cleary sticks to fiction writing. Groucho : 01 Dec 2008 8:33:41am What cost the two seats cinders was unionists with no principles selling their soul to John Howard. History WILL NEVER forget how the members campaign has changed forever any credibility the CFMEU had. And they have the nerve to use the word scab. I guess that makes them festering wounds. Jim : 28 Nov 2008 2:20:30am Australians, save the earth, save Australia, save our psyche and sanity,quadruple the value of real estate in Australia. Live amongst nature like no where else with corridors and saving gems of groves and nature in your own area. The groves of wrens and songbirds and fields of finches etc. wake up. Madeleine : I W : 29 Nov 2008 10:29:46pm Hi Jim, up here on the property we still have some giant gums on the ridges. When you put your arms around them and look up, you wonder how old they are. And then you think of the passing of time. It's a very unique experience. Jim : Yolanda Newman : 27 Nov 2008 11:35:28pm I enjoyed Mark's piece and the comments which follow. I don't know much about the timber industry or about the issues in Tasmania. I do know that in