Hot ashes for trees?
Click above icon to play Pink Floyd’s ‘Wish You Were Here’
..first turn speakers on, then while playing scroll slowly through this article…
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..So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell?
Blue skies from pain?
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Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
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Did they get you to trade
Your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
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Cold comfortable change?
Did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage? …
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(Lyrics extract from Pink Floyd’s legendary song ‘Wish You Were Here‘ off their 1975 album of the same name).
These photos, as you scroll through them, are of Tasmania’s wild old growth forest heritage, which is currently being destroyed in 2012, driven by the Premier Lara Giddings Labor Government of Tasmania.
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Australia’s Prime Minister Julia Gillard,
who on 7th August 2011 personally promised the protection of Tasmania’s old growth forests.
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[Photo by Editor Sept 2011]
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Follow the Tree Sit Protest defending Tasmania’s native forests
^http://observertree.org/
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Tags: The Observer Tree
