Politics

Into the Woods: The Battle for Tasmania’s Forests by Anna Krien

by Peter Mares •

November 2010, no. 326

Black Inc., $29.95 pb, 311 pp, 9781863954877

Politics

Into the Woods: The Battle for Tasmania’s Forests by Anna Krien

by Peter Mares •

November 2010, no. 326

On the day that I finished reading Into the Woods, I opened the newspaper to a report that Gunns was withdrawing from native forest logging to base its future business entirely on plantation-grown timber. Given that Gunns controls almost eighty-five per cent of the wood products traded in Tasmania, this has raised hopes of an end to the decades-old forest war in the island-state.

Peter Mares

Peter Mares is lead moderator with the Cranlana Centre for Ethical Leadership and a contributor to Inside Story magazine. He is the author of No Place Like Home: Repairing Australia’s Housing Crisis (Text Publishing, 2018), Not Quite Australian: How temporary migration is changing the nation (Text Publishing, 2016), and Borderline (UNSW Press 2001), an analysis of Australia’s refugee policies. Peter previously worked for twenty-five years as a broadcaster with the ABC, mostly with Radio National.