The Queensland Government's master plan to 'gift' one million hectares of western hardwoods to preservationists may have backfired. In April 2006, the state government moved to convert the western forests into national parks in a 100 million dollar buyback deal with top-end hardwood sawmillers. But the 'green dream' has developed into a Mexican standoff with piqued Professor Aila Keto of the Australian Rainforest Conservation Society and her supporters on one side, angry sawmillers on the other and new Premier Anna Bligh caught in the middle.
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