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It’s time to move on!

TIME to move on” is the message of a new taxpayer-funded advertising campaign promoting the forestry peace deal. Source: The Examiner
The two-week television and radio blitz will cost $36,000 and will be paid for out of a $7 million fund allocated to communications and progressing the industry’s bid for Forest Stewardship Certification.
There are five 15-second ads featuring “real Tasmanians”, including a hairdresser, a Ta Ann Tasmania worker and a sawmiller, urging people to move on and work together now that the forestry agreement has been struck and legislation passed.
Deputy Premier Bryan Green said the campaign demonstrated that people were sick and tired of the forestry debate.
“It’s only the Liberal Party and a few environmental fringe groups who are out of step with what most people want,” Green said.
The ads follow two protests this month targeting Ta Ann Tasmania in which anti-logging activists chained themselves to machinery and equipment.
Posting a $10.2 million loss for 2012, the timber veneer company yesterday blamed turmoil in the industry before the forestry peace deal brought some certainty to the markets.
“Ta Ann Tasmania expects slowly measured improvements in markets over the next 12 months,” a company spokesman said.
Since the annual report was compiled the company has been paid $26 million in compensation from the federal government for sacrificing some of its wood supply as a result of the forestry legislation.
Opposition forestry spokesman Peter Gutwein said the Government’s advertising campaign was an insult to people hurt by the deal.