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Jacqueline Lynch and Sam Bold

WA's native logging ban blamed for 'devastating' closure of Nannup timber mill

The small West Australian community of Nannup has been left devastated by the closure of the town's timber mill, which the council says could drive "a significant amount" of the working population away from the area.

After almost 50 years in the timber industry, Neil Marlow is now out of work after the state government's ban on native logging led to the closure of the 100-year-old mill.

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