Greens suffer corruption too!!
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Political corruption is not the exclusive territory of US Big Business and their Supreme Court. The Tasmanian Wilderness Society which now operates under the name of The Wilderness Society, is having a bit of trouble with it’s head honcho Alec Marr.
In an interesting comparison with Orwell’s Animal Farm, young Alec has been likened to the pigs who took over from the Farmer. An analogy that should find heads nodding within the protest group. Rumours have been floating around about bullying and with an amazing turnover of 60% in 13 months from a staff of nearly 100, there must be something rotten in the management structure.
For some reason folk like Alec lose touch with their members when they having been living a comfortable life and the ego ends up putting self before any other interests. When he suffered a 9 – 2 no confidence motion, Alec should have had a “good hard look at himself” and thought about the spirit of his organisation. That old fashioned idea of Democracy.
Unfortunately for TWS, he went the other way and started punishing folk by withdrawing funds and (get this one) holding a secret AGM and only inviting his mates along. On the scale of cunning he gets big points for meeting the legal requirements by publishing the notice for the AGM in the least read Tasmanian newspaper the Burnie Advocate (I’ve never heard of it either). But disenfranchising the membership can only lead one way and I’m surprised he hasn’t worked it out yet.
At risk here is a staggering annual $15M worth of donations but it goes even further than that. Once someone thinks they are bigger than the organisation they usually prefer to bring the whole thing tumbling down rather that let someone else take over the reins. With the trickiness displayed so far, young Alec looks far from repentant and more likely to trash an organisation that held it’s head high after the Franklin Dam era of protests.
If I was a kid coming out of Uni full of Green enthusiasm I’d give TWS the big swerve. It’s hard enough to battle big companies like Gunns without having another bitch fight back at Head Office. And if I was kicking in any of that $15M in donations I’d be wondering exactly where it was going and how much bang for the buck I was getting.
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