There Goes Tasmania! By Peter Ewer

     Do we ever get any good news anymore? Certainly if I had some I would share it, just like if I had a packet of boiled sweets, I would give you one, being extraordinarily generous.  But, alas, there goes Tasmania:
  http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-24/huge-development-considered-for-tasmanias-east-coast/9690496
  https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/jun/06/fast-tracked-tasmania-resort-plan-raises-fears-over-chinese-investment
  https://www.smh.com.au/national/is-this-the-tasmania-we-want-chinese-investors-plan-100m-east-coast-resort-20180502-p4zcwa.html
  https://www.themercury.com.au/news/tasmania/swansea-locals-welcome-revelations-of-possible-major-new-development-but-call-for-more-details/news-story/d66009d5f4b7d67b334f80066900d006
  https://www.stategrowth.tas.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0016/127123/China_Engagement_Report.pdf

“A proposed mega-development on Tasmania’s east coast has prompted concerns about fast-tracked development and foreign investment in the island state. The Cambria Green proposal was announced to the public in late April, four days before a local council meeting which voted to progress an application to create a special development zone that could house 550 accommodation units and hotel rooms, two golf courses, and an 80-bed health spa that could one day be used as a palliative care unit. The proponent, Cambria Green Agricultural Tourism Management, helmed by Shandong businessman Liu Kejing and Melbourne-based Ronald Hu, says on its Facebook page — it does not have a website — that it wants to “bring the surrounding community along our long-term journey” to support the “integrated, eco-tourism development”.

But some say a lack of details around what the final development would look like, combined with the lack of public disclosure prior to the council meeting and a complicated paper trail, has highlighted issues with the state’s planning processes. The property overlooks Freycinet National Park, which rims Wineglass Bay and is home to more than 80 species of native orchid. The park is the biggest tourist drawcard on the east coast and attracted almost 300,000 visitors last year. The Glamorgan Spring Bay council, which voted four-to-three to progress the rezoning application, has been accused of rushing the proposal and of not investigating the community and environmental impact before putting it out to public comment.”

     Again, this is why One nation and Pauline Hanson were elected, so Pauline, time to really earn that big salary you get, and fight like in the old days, only now it is deadly serious, and there is no more time for “please explaining.”