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'No choice': paper giant sues after state logging ban

A state government is being sued for more than $400 million by a paper manufacturing company that was forced to close after the demise of native forest logging.

AAP · Sep 22, 2025

Cost of big races revealed right at the finish line

Revelations about the price of events such as major motor races are among the dozens of reports released on a parliament's final sitting day.

AAP · Nov 28, 2024

A ‘scare campaign’ over national parks? The fight over the future of Victoria’s forests

Conservationists say the push to protect forests and endangered species with a giant national park has become mired in ‘disinformation’

The Guardian - AU · Jul 27, 2024

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Has logging really stopped in Victoria? What the death of an endangered glider tells us

Victoria’s native forest logging industry ended on January 1 this year. The news was met with jubilation from conservationists.

The Conversation · May 20, 2024

Forest files: ecologist at loggerheads with industry

Leading ecologist David Lindenmayer says it was important to write a book on native forest logging in Australia, despite enduring years of personal attacks.

AAP · Apr 10, 2024

Saws down as state's forest logging firm gets the chop

A state-owned forestry company is being wound up after a ban on logging native trees, legal troubles and battles with environment and wildlife groups.

AAP · Mar 13, 2024

Forestry welcomes contracts but derides compo deal

The Victorian government has offered forestry harvest contractors five-year deals but the industry is unimpressed with its "compensation" packages.

AAP · Dec 1, 2023

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VicForests records $60m loss as industry closure looms

Victoria's state logging corporation has recorded a net loss of $60.1 million thanks to court losses over timber harvesting and protected animals and plants.

AAP · Nov 16, 2023

VicForests illegally spied on anti-logging campaigners

VicForests reject report findings but will develop new security and surveillance policy.

The Canberra Times · Aug 10, 2023

What to do with 1.8m hectares of Victorian public forest?

Native forest logging will cease in Victoria from 2024, but those who live and work in state forests say there’s been little communication about what happens next

The Guardian - AU · Jun 15, 2023

Shock and fear grip Victoria’s timber towns after logging ban

The Victorian government announced on Tuesday it would phase out harvesting native forests by next year, shocking the timber industry

The New Daily · May 27, 2023

With native forest logging in Victoria to end early, hundreds of workers face an uncertain future

Employees ‘blindsided’ by the government’s decision must now consider retraining at Tafe as the state’s native timber resources run dry

The Guardian - AU · May 25, 2023

Victoria's native timber logging communities shocked by acceleration of industry's end

Victoria's decision to bring forward the end of native timber harvesting was meant to bring certainty, but it has not eased the pain in timber communities.

ABC News · May 25, 2023

End of native logging in Victoria ‘a monumental win for forests’, say conservationists

The shutting down of the industry six years earlier than scheduled comes after decades of conflict

The Guardian - AU · May 23, 2023

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The Conversation · May 23, 2023

After the chainsaws, the quiet: Victoria's rapid exit from native forest logging is welcome – and long overdue

By the end of the year, Victoria’s trouble-plagued native forest industry will end – six years ahead of schedule. The state’s iconic mountain ash forests and endangered wildlife will at last be safe from chainsaws. And there will be no shortage of wood – there’s more than enough plantation timber…

The New Daily · May 23, 2023

Victoria swings axe to fell native logging industry

The Victorian government will phase out native timber logging by the end of the year and is expected to announce a transition package in the state budget.

ABC News · May 23, 2023

Victorian government to provide hundreds of millions in support for workers leaving embattled logging industry

More than $200 million in funding will be provided by the Victorian government as it accelerates plans to phase out native timber logging.

ABC News · Mar 8, 2023

VicForests slammed for its handling of FOI request following 'spying' allegations

A government agency that allegedly spied on a woman to "dig up dirt" is slammed by Victoria's Information Commissioner, who says the agency should apologise for its response to her request for information about the alleged spying.

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The Conversation · Mar 6, 2023

When is a nature reserve not a nature reserve? When it's already been burned and logged

Australia has the world’s worst mammal extinction record, with nearly 40 native mammal species lost since European colonisation. By contrast, the United States has lost three.

AAP · Feb 15, 2023

Unions shape up for fight over paper mill job losses

Australian unions have leapt to the defence of workers facing the axe over the closure of Australia's last white paper manufacturing plant.

AAP · Feb 14, 2023

Job losses as Australia's last white paper plant closes

Dwindling timber supplies have been blamed for Australia's last white paper manufacturer shutting its eastern Victorian plant.

ABC News · Feb 7, 2023

Nippon Paper Group to make a decision about the future of Australian white paper tomorrow

Australia's sole office paper manufacturing could cease operations if its foreign owners decide to permanently shut its Latrobe Valley white paper mill line. Tomorrow's decision could affect up to 200 workers and comes after a halt in operations in native timber logging in Victoria.

AAP · Jan 18, 2023

Paper-thin supply sparks school books fear

Paper companies are scrambling to source foreign white paper after a lack of domestic timber supply dented production at Australia's only white paper mill.

The Guardian - AU · Dec 12, 2022

‘Abysmal’ number of Australian banks and super funds have policies to mitigate environmental risks: report

ACF report comes as countries at Cop15 prepare global target requiring businesses and financial institutions to reveal how supply chains and portfolios affect nature

The Conversation · Nov 18, 2022

If you care about nature in Victoria, this is your essential state election guide

If we learnt anything from the past federal election, it’s that Australians care about climate change and nature. A survey released this week suggests the same dynamic is at play as we head into the Victorian state election.

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