Trapped
Smithton is the type of place where formal attire is considered to be shirt with a prominent Ford or HSV logo, so yeah, it's kind of rural and kind of working class and if you're not from there it's likely you've referred to it more than once by the pejorative name of 'miffton. I'm not here to empty my bladder on Smithton and the wider Circular Head Municipal region, just giving some background and stating some facts. The region has been hit hard over the past year; 200 employees were scalped when McCain's pulled the pin on a processing plant, a forestry agreement has skewered local contractors and this was topped off by the local sawmill, owned by Tasmanian arch super villain, forestry giant Gunns, apparently processing its last shipment of logs in December. This is hugely significant within a town of around 3500 and a wider Municipality over 7500. The trashing of those jobs and the flow on effect probably still hasn't taken full effect - they're pr...