Koalas invade Boral office
SYDNEY — Supporters of the Wingham Forest Action Group wielding chainsaws an dressed in koala suits stormed the offices of the Boral Corporation on June 24 to protest against logging of NSW old growth forests.
"If the Forestry Commission and Boral think their actions in the Supreme Court can shut up legitimate protest about the destruction of this state's precious old growth forests, they've got it wrong again", said Brent Hoare, spokesperson for the group.
"Old growth forests are public assets, and the Forestry Act 1916 requires that they be managed for the benefit of all the people of NSW, not a few short years of one gigantic corporation's balance sheet.
"Boral is laughing all the way to the bank as the trucks used to pull out the logs wreck the roads, which are then repaired by Boral-owned companies at the taxpayers' expense", said Hoare.