AFL CEO Andrew Demetriou was quoted to have said to the Tasmanian premier Paul Lennon "Not now, not ever".
Lennon is known as an active proponent of Tasmania's forestry industry, which is a partnership between its investors, managers, and workers, which has made him very unpopular with the Greens, numerous conservation groups and others on the left.
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In August 2007, Singh abstained in a vote on a controversial Bill supporting Gunns' Bell Bay Pulp Mill supported by all fellow Labor MPs, after having failed in an appeal to then-Premier Paul Lennon for a conscience vote on the matter.