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| Name | Paul O'Halloran |
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Paul O'HALLORAN
Tasmanian Greens Career: Teacher at King Island, Ulverstone High School, Don College, Canada. Currently teaching Agricultural Science and Biology and as worked in the primary industry area.
Family: Married with 2 children living in North Motton.
Community Participation: Member of the Ulverstone High School Council, Spokesperson of the Barrington Links Community Steering Group.
"I was brought up on the NW coast of Tasmania at Meunna, on the nearest farm to the Tarkine, the rainforest in which I used to play in as a kid. This farm, like most others in that community, has been converted to plantations. The local school has closed, the milk tankers have stopped, jobs are gone, there are no cricket teams and the community has disintegrated. Opportunities for the future have been lost and the rich volcanic soils have been locked up for decades."
"Tasmania and particularly the NW coast needs a move away from this old style economy to one which will encourage our kids to stay and become the innovators, entrepreneurs and job creators of the future. At present our best and brightest youngsters are leaving in droves because the opportunities are not here in old style economy."
"At the moment we are destroying many of these natural advantages for the sake of very short sighted economic gain, a gain which will prove very costly for our children. This situation is no better illustrated than the pile of rainforest woodchips and logs on the Burnie wharf and plans for yet another woodchip mill in the area. It is not only the Greens who support this transition from a high volume/low value economy to one of high value/low volume - it is also supported by the Tasmania Together forums, the Australian Local Government Association and National Economics. The Greens will make a difference!"
"Our kids should not be excluded from educational opportunity because of incapacity to pay, whether it is levies or access to post compulsory education and training opportunities. The residents of the NW coast are particularly disadvantaged from this point of view."
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