This small step in the direction of finding a win-win solution was hijacked by the bullies within the F part of the CFMEU.
This small step in the direction of finding a win-win solution was hijacked by the bullies within the F part of the CFMEU.
Will the 50 year forest war in Victoria be coming to an end? Will we all be able to reach consensus on a win-win solution? The Andrews government has set up a taskforce between industry and environment reps to get down to the job of sorting the conflict out once and for all. It could …
A plan for a new national park to protect the endangered Leadbeater’s possum has been dealt a blow with revelations VicForests locked in millions of dollars worth of new logging contracts. State Labor ducked a proposal to create a Great Forest national park stretching from Kinglake to Mt Baw Baw and north-east up to Eildon in the recent …
The head of Victoria’s zoos says the scale of logging in the state’s central highland forests is environmentally unsustainable and has backed the creation of a new national park as giving key endangered species the best chance of survival. A letter sent by Zoos Victoria chief executive Jenny Gray to the state-owned timber company VicForests in January …
Stopping logging in Victoria’s central highlands would drive tens of millions of dollars into state coffers if the move was included under the Abbott government’s emissions reduction fund. Fairfax Media has seen a confidential brief prepared for the federal environment minister, Greg Hunt, which found ending logging in the highland forests, north-east of Melbourne, would …
