Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Tasmanian Premier David Bartlett will not be drawn on calls for new laws to be introduced giving police more powers to remove protesters from the state’s forests. Tensions are rising between activists and loggers, amid allegations of violence and firebombing of cars in the Upper Florentine Valley. Police are investigating an alleged assault on an activist and protesters say there has been an arson attack on their camp only days later. Forest contractors say they do not …