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VicForests to cease operations on June 30
VICFORESTS will cease operations on June 30, the end date was revealed last Wednesday during a court hearing involving VicForests and environmental group Wombat...
Pesutto visits Heyfield
Liam Durkin
STATE opposition leader John Pesutto visited Heyfield last week, meeting those closest affected from the impending native timber closure.
The closure is only two...
Litigation had fundamental impact on VicForests’ financial results
Philip Hopkins
LITIGATION brought by environmental groups had a fundamental impact on VicForests' financial results in 2022-23, the state government forestry body said in its...
Audit of VicForests finds 96 per cent compliance
The 2022 official audit of VicForests has found an average 96 per cent compliance with the state's forestry environmental standards.
The latest independent audit was...
Comment: State government’s “mismanagement” of native timber industry
Comment
John Cameron
Summary
THE state government decision to close the native forest timber industry culminates eight years of mismanagement that turned VicForests from a profitable business...
Commissioner finds VicForests conducted unlawful surveillance
ON Thursday August 10, the Victorian Information Commissioner published an investigation report into historical allegations that VicForests conducted unlawful surveillance on several people in...
Analysis shows “mismanagement” of VicForests: John Cameron
Philip Hopkins
THE state government decision to close the native forest timber industry culminates eight years of mismanagement that turned VicForests from a profitable business...
CPSU and VicForests staff get together
Philip Hopkins
VICFORESTS staff and their guests, with the threat of unemployment hanging over their heads, gathered together with their trade union backers last week...
VicForests loses Supreme Court appeal against timber harvest ban
AN appeal in the Supreme Court by VicForests to continue native timber harvesting was lost this week, upholding the original ruling that put an...
New VicForests drones deployed
Philip Hopkins
VICFORESTS has started using drones at night to detect endangered fauna to comply with new orders from the Victorian Supreme Court that have...
Industry confidence ‘undermined’: VFPA
Timber processors at Heyfield and Yarram may lose more wood supply, after the state government announced a halving of the native timber sold by...
VicForests rejects Bunnings’ reason for timber boycott
VICFORESTS has rejected claims by Bunnings and environmentalists its native forest harvesting operations still breach environmental laws.
Last month, the full bench of the Federal...
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Noonan and Schaupp perform at The Wedge tonight
Stefan Bradley
Tomorrow at The Wedge, Katie Noonan and Karin Schaupp, both ARIA award-winning musicians, will be celebrating some of Australia's greatest female artists through...
