Union says Morrison’s forestry plan won’t cut it on jobs

David Marin-Guzman, Michael Read and Tom McIlroy

Apr 14, 2022 – 6.04pm

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The forestry union has slammed Scott Morrison’s plan for timber jobs as “doing nothing” to address job security and the industry’s biggest challenges as the Prime Minister jetted into Tasmania on the last stop of his whistle-stop tour of blue-collar manufacturing seats.

Mr Morrison sought to wedge Labor on forestry policy on Thursday, pitching the Coalition as the only party that supports Tasmania’s logging industry and announcing $219.5 million to “secure” 73,000 existing forestry jobs.

David Marin-Guzman writes about industrial relations, workplace, policy and leadership from Sydney.

Michael Read is the Financial Review's economics correspondent, reporting from the federal press gallery at Parliament House. He was previously an economist at the Reserve Bank of Australia and at UBS.

Tom McIlroy was the Financial Review’s Canberra bureau chief.