Twenty forest defenders protested at the Smithton Ta Ann mill yesterday, while more than 100 forest defenders are involved in frontline actions across three sites as part of Bob Brown Foundation’s Forest Resistance Tour. Two treesitters have spent two nights holding off logging in the Lake St Claire area, while other protesters continue to occupy the forests in the Central Highlands. …At the contentious Ta Ann Smithton mill, Anna Markey and Erin Miller are with fellow forest defenders peacefully occupying the mill. ‘I’m here today with BBF to protest the logging of native forests. I am disgusted and terrified that the government here subsidise this foreign company to destroy and profit from our beautiful native forests,’ said Anna Markey, retired schoolteacher and grandparent from Goolwa, South Australia, who is locked on at the Ta Ann mill.