Loss of Senate seat would follow
To help keep Bob in the Senate, the most helpful thing you can do is to send a cheque payable to Bob Brown Forest Account to GPO Box 404, Hobart, 7001, Or donate online here
Forestry Tasmania is threatening Australian Greens Leader Senator Bob Brown with bankruptcy if he doesn't pay $240,000 dollars by 29 June 2009.
In 2006 the Federal Court found in favour of Senator Brown's claim that logging in Tasmania's Wielangta Forest threatens the endangered Wedge-tailed eagle, Swift parrot and Wielangta stag beetle. However, on a legal technicality, the Full Bench overturned Justice Marshall's order that logging should stop and ordered Senator Brown to pay costs instead. In 2008, the High Court, in a 2 to 1 judgement, endorsed this ruling.
The Clerk of the Senate has informed Senator Brown that ‘you would be disqualified from further service in the Senate' if the new threat were to proceed from an inability to pay.
‘I will be exploring all avenues to pay this bill on time,' Senator Brown said.
TO DONATE:
CHEQUE made payable to: Bob Brown Forest Account GPO Box 404, Hobart, 7001.
Please provide your contact details so that your donation can be receipted and acknowledged. Any excess funds will be used to help protect Australia’s wild and threatened forests
Or ONLINE go to: www.on-trial.info
THANK YOU!
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