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portada The Rise and Fall of Gunns Ltd
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Language
English
Pages
336
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
23.1x15.2x3.6 cm
Weight
0.59 kg.
ISBN13
9781742234199

The Rise and Fall of Gunns Ltd

Quentin Beresford (Author) · Newsouth Pub. · Paperback

The Rise and Fall of Gunns Ltd - Beresford, Quentin

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Synopsis "The Rise and Fall of Gunns Ltd"

At its peak, Gunns Ltd had a market value of $1 billion, was listed on the ASX 200, was the largest employer in the state of Tasmania and its largest private landowner. Most of its profits came from woodchipping, mainly from clear-felled old-growth forests. A pulp mill was central to its expansion plans. Its collapse in 2012 was a major national news story, as was the arrest of its CEO for insider trading.Quentin Beresford illuminates for the first time the dark corners of the Gunns empire. He shows it was built on close relationships with state and federal governments, political donations and use of the law to intimidate and silence its critics. Gunns may have been single-minded in its pursuit of a pulp mill in Tasmania's Tamar Valley, but it was embedded in an anti-democratic and corrupt system of power supported by both main parties, business and unions. Simmering opposition to Gunns and all it stood for ramped up into an environmental campaign not seen since the Franklin Dam protests.Fearless and forensic in its analysis, the book shows that Tasmania's decades-long quest to industrialise nature fails every time. But the collapse of Gunns is the most telling of them all.

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