Hobart protest rally calls for end to native forest logging in Tasmania, as Liberals vow to increase timber harvest

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With just six days to go until Tasmanians head to the ballot box thousands gathered in Hobart today rallying for one thing. For whoever forms government to put an end to native forest logging.

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00:00 A call to action that reverberated throughout Hobart.

00:09 It's estimated 3,000 people took to the streets, arguing for Tasmanian native forests to stay

00:14 in the ground.

00:15 This is a festival of democracy we have here today and six days from now, ladies and gentlemen,

00:22 we're going to see a changed parliament.

00:25 We are seeing the destruction of some of the most precious ecosystems with intact cultural

00:31 and biodiversity values and this needs to stop right now.

00:36 An election just a week away seemed to attract the rally goers.

00:39 I really care about Australia's amazing native forests and it's one of the reasons I moved

00:44 to Tasmania.

00:45 We want to save these forests and they're so important and after today our politicians

00:50 surely will have to listen.

00:51 We're nothing without our forests.

00:53 But the target audience isn't budging on its position.

00:56 The Liberals have already pledged to open up an extra 40,000 hectares of forests for

01:00 logging and Labor has promised to review native forest and plantation resources.

01:05 We've got our position very clear.

01:08 We back the industry.

01:10 We back rural and regional jobs.

01:12 But if neither party wins a majority on Saturday, the issue may not be as set in stone as they

01:17 would like.

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