For full details of who the ‘Gunns20’ are, see the Victorian Supreme Court writ lodged by Gunns Limited on 13 December 2004. Unless otherwise indicated, all page references in the text refer to the ‘Gunns20’ writ.
2.
See BederSharon, Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism (1997); WaltersBrian, Slapping on the Writs: Defamation, Developers and Community Activism (2003).
3.
BederSharon, ‘Moulding and Manipulating the News’, in WhiteRob (ed), Controversies in Environmental Sociology (2004); AthanasiouTom, Divided Planet: The Ecology of Rich and Poor (1996).
4.
See, eg, BruntonNicholas, ‘Environmental Regulation: The Challenge Ahead’ (1999) 24Alternative Law Journal137–43.
5.
KuehnRobert, ‘Denying Access to Legal Representation: The Attack on the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic’ (2000) 4Journal of Law & Policy33–147.
6.
Beder, above, n 2; Anathasiou above, n 3; HagerNBurtonB, Secrets and Lies: The Anatomy of an Anti-Environmental PR Campaign (1999).
7.
WhinnettE, ‘Complaint on Forestry in a Tangle’, The Mercury (Hobart), 11 February 2003, 3.
8.
AltmannC, ‘When Bad News Comes in Trees’, The Australian (Sydney), 30 April (2003) Business Extra, 26.
9.
Quoted in AndersonC, ‘Chipping Protest Trio Fined’, The Mercury (Hobart), 14 February 2003, 9.
Beder above, n 2; WaltersBrian, ‘Let the People Speak’ (2005) 16Current Issues in Criminal Justice340–350.
13.
See front page and editorial page, The Mercury (Hobart), 21 June 2005.
14.
See HickeyG, Forest Fights: Legal Writs, Public Discourses and the Contest over Legitimacy (Sociology Honours Thesis, School of Sociology & Social Work, University of Tasmania2005).
15.
Walters, above, n 2.
16.
ABC Radio National, ‘The Gunns 20 Litigation’, The Law Report, 25 January 2005.
17.
McCullochJude, ‘Loggerheads over Old Growth Forests: Growing Civil Society Against State Crime and the Timber Wedge’ (2005) 16Current Issues in Criminal Justice351–67.
18.
See for examples, Walters, above, n 2; BunkerM.GatesP, ‘Newer Laws Give Media Means To ‘SLAPP’ Back in Libel Suits’ (2002) 23(2/3) Newspaper Research Journal18–31; KenyonA, ‘Review Essay: Defamation and Critique: Political Speech and New York Times v Sullivan In Australia and England’ (2001) Melbourne University Law Review18.
