The A Team

4 Corners, ABC Australia

Reporter: Sally Neighbour
Broadcast: 02/10/2006

It was a signature TV news image of the 1990s: the bush as battleground, greenies blocking bulldozers, shouting slogans and trading insults with angry timber workers.
Saving trees and animals won votes and environment groups enjoyed access to real power and policy clout.
But green influence grew too big for one forestry giant which saw its wood supplies threatened, and for its employees who saw their jobs threatened. So the company and the workers’ union formed an alliance. Behind the scenes, far from the televised stunts and confrontations in the bush, they hatched a plan…
Key workers would infiltrate key green groups and obtain information to divide and discredit them… and take over Labor Party branches to win control of a key policy-making arm.
For the first time, Four Corners details this covert campaign - masterminded by a former politician - which notched up some notable victories spanning a decade.
"They owned the forestry policy of the party," admits a Labor Left opponent.

The website...
ABC News: Greens demand probe into 'A-Team' spies allegations...
AM - Corporate Spies in Forestry Disputes...
The Age: Spying on the Greens...

You can send a message to Derek Amos, the head of the A-Team Campaign, to share your thoughts on his covert greenwashing activities, via his email or telephone numbers here...