Australian Financial Review legal editor Marcus Priest notes that in "what some unionists are calling an unholy alliance," the giant Australian forestry company Gunns [3] is "using industrial tort avenues employers have traditionally used against workers engaged in industrial action" against 20 environmentalists and environmental groups. Gunns' legal team comprises EMA Legal [4], a law firm that works only for employers, and two "well-known union barristers," Stephen Howells [5] and Mark Irving [6], who defended the Forestry Division of the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union in a case brought by environmentalists several years ago. Gunns legal action [7] is seeking A$6.3 million in damages from the "Gunns 20 [8]" activists for damaging its profitability by campaigning against the logging of Tasmania's environmentally important forests.