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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Paul Karp and Sarah Basford Canales

Labor rejects ban on native forest logging as PM accuses Greens of hypocrisy on housing

Prime minister Anthony Albanese
Prime minister Anthony Albanese has accused the Greens of ‘voting against affordable housing in the parliament, protesting against it in their electorate, and then making memes calling for action’. Photograph: Jono Searle/AAP

The Albanese government has rejected an internal push to ban native forest logging, instead committing to rewrite the three-decades old national forest policy statement this term.

Labor Environment Action Network spokesperson, Felicity Wade, praised the commitment but labelled native forest logging a “travesty” in a speech to Labor’s national conference on Thursday.

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