- In short: Environmentalists say Tasmania should follow Victoria's decision to end logging in native forests but the local industry wants access increased.
- What's next?: The government says it will consider the industry's request, raising the spectre of a return to the "forest wars" of years gone by.
At a sawmill near Hobart, the ear-piercing screech of giant steel saws slicing through Tasmanian hardwood reverberates through a corrugated iron shed.
