Gippsland forestry workers displaced by the Labor government’s forced closure of the native timber industry have had their compensation payments frozen. The Allan Government agreed to pay native timber worker…
Melina BATH (Eastern Victoria) (12:49): (638) My question is to the Treasurer. Based in Latrobe Valley, Trevor Hodge is the director of Hodge Forestry Services and, due to Labor’s shutdown…
With Victoria’s native timber industry closure a mere two weeks away, The Nationals have held a forum in Heyfield to listen to timber communities and industry. The forum was attended…
The Labor Government has suddenly backflipped on its directive to the Victorian building industry to cease designing and constructing homes with native hardwood timber. The backflip labelled ‘updated guidance following…
The Victorian building industry has been directed to cease designing and constructing homes with native hardwood timber by the Labor Government. In a recent letter to the Housing Industry Association…
Melina BATH (Eastern Victoria) (17:55): (517) I am continuing on my theme from reports during my adjournment. My adjournment matter this evening is for the Treasurer, and it relates to…
Melina BATH (Eastern Victoria) (17:34): My statement is on the budget papers 2023–24, and it relates to timber worker and industry support, referencing page 31 of budget paper 3. Native timber harvesters…
Melina BATH (Eastern Victoria) (09:42): I would also like to share with the house the sad passing of forest scientist and associate professor Kevin Tolhurst on 5 October, doing what he…
Labor’s Minister for Climate Change, Lily D’Ambrosio today denied Gippsland native timber workers an audience in the Latrobe Valley, instead choosing to slip out a back gate and return to…
The Andrews Governments early closure of Victoria’s native timber industry is false environmentalism, false economy and false hope for workers said Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Public Land Use and The…
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