Activists stalk logging truck for 200kms
Anti-logging activists stalked a logging truck for almost 200km, tailgating and weaving in and out of traffic, before being intercepted by police.
Timber and forestry
Wombat Forest worker targeted in activist attack
Activists smashed up a $350,000 logging excavator and daubed it with graffiti, warning its owner has “become a target”.
Former timber workers find jobs
An East Gippsland building business has received a half a million dollar government grant to expand on the site of an old sawmill.
VicForest lockout hits early
Legal action has forced firewood, fence post and specialty timber cutters out of Victoria’s forests, five months ahead of schedule.
Gippsland timber workers left in the lurch
The Victorian Government has planted just 0.01 per cent of the 30 million trees promised to assist timber workers – six years on from the announcement.
‘Dudded’: East Gippsland’s broken promises and dashed hopes
With the timber industry winding down, East Gippsland is growing increasingly frustrated with stalled tourism infrastructure rebuilds. See the details.
Firewood shortage fuels energy bill pain
Regional Victorian households’ cheapest form of heating – firewood – is about to become far more expensive.
VicForests job losses loom
VicForests’ 163 staff, from Hamilton to Orbost, have been left in limbo as the Andrews government prepares to axe native forest logging.
VicForests Supreme Court appeal rejected
The final nail in the coffin of Victoria’s native timber harvesting has been hammered in by a Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday.
‘Not much choice’: Timber plans gutted
Mill owners and harvest contractors’ multimillion dollar investments have been ruined by the now-earlier phasing out of native forest timber harvesting.
Timber harvesting to end in new year
The Andrews government has caved to environment groups’ legal challenges to lock up state forests, announcing an end to native timber harvesting in today’s budget.
560 timber jobs axed
Timber workers argue the Andrews government has always had the power to save their jobs.
Timber crews ignored by Victorian government
Out-of-work harvest and haulage crews, who are vital to fighting fires, are missing out on DEECA contracts to build strategic fuel breaks.
Victoria set to lose forest fire contractors
Victoria is set to lose the 284 harvest and haulage contractors who used their heavy machinery to fight the 2019-20 Black Summer fires.
Vic government ‘not doing a thing’ as more timber job losses loom
More than 1000 timber workers face the axe as VicForests makes a last-ditch appeal against the legal lockup of Victoria’s native forests.
Wood chop demise another blow for timber
A country show institution is now facing major uncertainty due to the slow collapse of the Victorian timber industry.
Timber rally “Save our jobs”
Two convoys of timber trucks rolled into Morwell, in a funeral procession marking the death of an industry. Rolling updates here.
Australian Paper warns of stand-downs
Maryvale paper mill owners warn “unfortunately, limited stand-downs may become necessary” as pulp log supplies dry up.
Timber rally heads to Morwell
Timber workers will meet at Rosedale and Warragul on Friday morning, before driving their logging trucks to Morwell.
Timber harvesting crippled
Timber harvesting in most of Victoria has been cut back in the wake of today’s final Supreme Court order, ramping up possum protections.
‘Cease operations today’: VicForests
VicForests has ordered timber workers to halt harvesting, following a Supreme Court judgement. See the update.
Special report: Inside timber industry’s heartbreaking future
East Gippsland’s timber industry is on the brink of collapse, with 115 workers facing the axe and warnings Orbost will become a “ghost town”. This is their story.
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