They've done it...! The Greens have come out with a pressure point for the election campaign, and it deserves to be strenuously resisted.... See the following link:

http://www.news.com.au/national/federal-election/greens-want-tarkine-to-join-tasmanias-wilderness-world-heritage-area/news-story/ab05be889826500e3b3d5a8c670a5de8

This area has already been assessed (2013) for inclusion on the Register of the National Estate, and apart from a narrow strip along the coast, it did not stack up. It is diabolical now for the Greens to be pushing political pressure over appropriate process.

We saw how the 2013 TWWHA extension was characterised by bullying, dishonesty, misrepresentation, academic fraud, bodged peer review, failure to declare conflict of interest, transgression of existing statutes by political manipulation, denial of consultation, denial of natural justice, and flagrant abuse of proper process and protocol, and we don't want to go through any of that again! In that instance we saw many areas added to the TWWHA that do not have the validity to be there. They devalue its currency.

It is completely inappropriate to propose that all 447,000 hectares become added to WHA, and to attempt to use that stunt as a weapon against the mining and timber industries. There are some areas of the so-called Tarkine that will never be touched, and conventional timber harvesting involving CBS will not be applied. Instead, some areas will be available for low-impact single-stem selection for Special Timbers, with low annual volumes and no regeneration burning. This will be completely within the requirements of the EPBC Act, and the new Special Timbers Management Plan.

It is important for Tasmania and the taxpayers of Australia that this area is spared from the tax-sucking monster that dubious World Heritage Areas have become.