Burnie from Upper Burnie Sports Centre lookout. On the right side use to be the paper mill where I worked. In those days smoke would billow out from the various chimneys of the Mill. Burnie was the largest fine paper mill in Australia but was shut last year.
At the port in the centre of the photo one can see a stockpile of woodchips ready to be exported to Japan for paper making. The left side of the photo shows the centre of the town. Burnie was a thriving city of over 35,000 habitants when we lived there, but the “green fever” that affects Tasmania has turned it into a small town with an uncertain future.
If was not for the other states of Australia paying for the Tasmania “experiments” this state would have been bankrupted long ago.