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"QUESTION - This is happening in a federal election campaign, are you embarking on this with any sort of advice on how people should vote?
JT - I'm certainly not, I never have. I've been invited by both the parties and by other groups to sort of be at their fundraising dinners and I've always said it's like anyone's hired to be a good tennis player or dancer or a cowboy or whatever and because you're well known for that to then turn around and tell people how to vote, would be like you're hired... it would be nonsense. I've stood up before for a number of social issues and there's nothing more to it than that. And that's what this is. It's a social issue. It's not a political issue, there isn't a right way and a wrong way about it, it's something that's happening and it's like a road accident and they're ignoring it you know and the administration is ignoring it, and if you want to take a look at all the literature available you'll see all the reasons why they are. It's been covered over as an issue by the Regional Forests Act, and in this moment of international stress our eye is off what's happening all around us so they can go ahead and do whatever they like. And one of the reasons why I am quite happy to do this at the time of an election is because I would like to suggest that there are much more fundamental values and needs in the community that need to be addressed than a whole lot of far more immediate and sometimes hypothetical issues. "