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People in the Tamar/Esk Region know all too well that Gunns Ltd. was a massively profitable forestry business that at its peak had a market value of one billion dollars and that it is no more. The memory of the business is being quietly cleared away from the cultural memory of the city that was once synonymous with with Gunns name.
Richard Fidler in his conversation with Quentin Beresford reminds us just how Gunns, the forestry, enterprise, was both hated and admired by different sections of the Tasmanian public. Indeed, its power was feared by both state and federal governments .... SEE THE MONTHLY ESSAY: OUT OF CONTROL The tragedy of Tasmania’s forests By Richard Flanagan – Click Here
In 1989 the Chairman of Gunns tried to swing an election result to his liking, by attempting to bribe a politician to cross the floor.
When Gunns Ltd. fell over in 2012, it was one of the biggest corporate collapses in Australian history.
Further information and listening Quentin is a professor of politics at Edith Cowan University and worked as a journalist for Hobart newspaper The Mercury in the 1980s.
The Rise and Fall of Gunns Ltd is published by New South.
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Further information and listening Quentin is a professor of politics at Edith Cowan University and worked as a journalist for Hobart newspaper The Mercury in the 1980s.
The Rise and Fall of Gunns Ltd
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