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| 20/12/2000 |
Union bans looming at Otways waterfall |
Claire Miller, Environment Reporter |
The Age (article) |
The union movement may ban clear-felling of forest around the Sabine
Falls in Victoria's Otway Ranges. The Trades Hall Council is due
to decide its position at a meeting tomorrow morning but it is believed
the State Government will be called on to take the falls off the logging
schedule |
| 17/12/2000 |
Foolish fellers |
Simon Birrell, Otway Ranges Environment Network, Ascot Vale |
The Sunday Age (Letter) |
Graeme Gooding asserts that the proposals to clearfell near the Sabine
Falls are similar to past selective logging practices in which logs were
carted out of the Otway forests by tramlines (Letters, 10/12). Clearfell
logging involves the complete removal of all trees and undergrowth from
a site. Selective logging leaves most of the undergrowth and younger trees
to continue to grow. |
| 17/12/2000 |
Falls economy  |
John Piesse, Doctors for Native Forests, Kew |
The Sunday Age (Letter), 17/12/200 |
The reasons the Sabine Falls area should be protected from clearfelling
relate not so much to the threat to old-growth forest, as Graeme Gooding
quibbles, but rather to the outstanding scenic values and potential for
tourism of the area that logging would destroy. |
| 11/12/2000 |
Otways logging starves Geelong of water, says
report |
Claire Miller Environment Reporter, |
The Age (article) |
Water supplies to drought-affected cities and towns in Victoria's south-west
would be boosted if logging was stopped
in their Otway ranges catchments, a report to the State Government
has found. |
| 30/11/2000 |
A great scientist defends bad science |
Suresh Pathy, Chairman, Doctors for Native Forests, Bacchus Marsh |
The Age (letter), 30/11/2000 |
Sir Gustav Nossal (Opinion, 27/11) has chosen to defend poor-quality
science as practised by the Department of Natural Resources and Environment,
in particular its management of the native forests of Victoria. |
| 19/11/2000 |
Rape of the Sabine? Call to save Otways for fellers |
Claire Miller, Environment Reporter |
The Age (article) 19/11/2000 |
The Sabine Falls - a spectacular, l30-metre cascade tumbling in three
stages through pristine rainforest in the Otways - could fall victim this
summer to clearfelling, primarily for woodchips. The clearfelling of 77
hectares across the waterfall's headwaters and surrounding ridges will
also ruin proposals for a 70-kilometre trans-Otway walk, despite State
Government support for such "flagship" walks to promote nature-based tourism
along the Great Ocean Road. |
| 24/6/2000 |
Water supplies in south-west ‘at risk’ from logging |
Claire Miller: Environment Reporter |
The Age (article) |
Water supplies to Geelong and other towns in south-western Victoria
are at risk from plans to intensify logging in the Otways, a report has
warned. Plans to clear-fell forests every 80 years could drastically cut
water supplies. |
| 22/4/2000 |
Otways truce declared |
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The Age (article), 22/4/2000 |
A temporary truce has been reached in the bitter showdown between loggers
and conservationists in the Otway State Forest. The truce was announced
yesterday by the Otway Ranges Environment Network, whose members have been
protesting in the forest and been involved in violent confrontations with
loggers. The group agreed not to back protest action that prevented logging
contractors clearfelling native forest, in return for concessions. The
deal will apply until May 31. |
| 13/4/2000 |
Tuckey lashes states as protesters halt logging |
Brett Foley and Meaghan Shaw, Lorne |
The Age (article) |
Protesters closed down a logging operation near Lorne yesterday as
tensions in the Otway Ranges reignited over clear-felling of forests in
water catchment areas. Police were investigating an incident during
the stand-off between loggers and protesters in which a load of bark was
dropped metres from a protester. |
| 11/4/2000 |
Logo plan for timber exports |
Claire Miller, Environment Reporter |
The Age (article) |
The Federal Government wants to establish an Australian "woodmark"
to tackle mounting international concerns about the environmental credentials
of commodity exports such as timber. |
| 9/4/2000 |
Logging to breach new agreement |
Claire Miller |
The Age (article) |
Water catchments supplying the outskirts of western Melbourne may be
logged in breach of the Commonwealth-state regional forest agreement signed
10 days ago. The Victorian Government's three-year plan for the Wombat
state forest around Daylesford reveals several potential breaches of requirements
for protecting catchments. |
| 7/4/2000 |
Anger at woodchip export approval |
Claire Miller, Environment Reporter |
The Age (article) |
The Federal Government has bypassed Parliament to allow the Japanese
giant, Harris Daishowa (Australia), to export woodchips
from southern New South Wales despite an expired licence. |
| 6/4/2000 |
We can't see the wood for the trees |
Roger Powell, Reservoir |
The Age (letter) |
It was amusing, in a depressing sort of way, to read (The Age, 4/4)
about the spat between the great and the good of the, Melbourne Club and
the Naval and Military Club. It all came down to the preservation of a
few old trees of foreign origin. It is a pity that the same
energy is not being put into preserving our beautiful forests from the
desecration of the clear-fellers and wood-chippers. |
| 4/4/2000 |
Why should logging jobs be sacrosanct? |
Mark Smith |
The Age (letter) |
I am one of the 8000 teachers cut from the Victorian education system
during the 1990s. In economic rationalist terms, we were dispensable because
we couldn't quantify our productivity. We were judged to be an economic
drain on the state and we had to go. Why are loggers' jobs protected? |
| 4/4/2000 |
Move to quell violence in state forests |
Claire Miller, Environment Reporter |
The Age (article) |
The State Government will call a meeting between the timber industry
and conservationists this week to try to stop the escalating violence over
logging in native forests. But anti-logging campaigners yesterday
blamed the Government for the weekend's violence in the Otways, saying
it provoked the confrontation by sending a logging crew into Geelong's
water catchment last week to begin clearfelling. The city has been on water
restrictions for two years. |
| 3/4/2000 |
Halt logging to preserve precious water (2) |
Megan Clinton, St Kilda |
The Herald Sun (letter) |
WATER is a precious and finite resource and, as Melbourne Water managing
director Brian Bayley is aware, is becoming more so. Mr
Bayley (Herald Sun, March 29) applauds various projects that are attempting
to conserve our precious water resources, and calls for
everyone to join in the spirit of these initiatives. |
| 3/4/2000 |
Halt logging to preserve precious water (1) |
Luke O'Brien, Yarraville |
The Herald Sun (letter) |
WITH the likelihood of water restrictions in Victoria increasing almost
dialy (Herald Sun, March 21) when are we going to see some
media interest in the disastrous logging in the central highlands and
Otway Ranges? |
| 3/4/2000 |
Greens hurt in logging clash |
Mike Edmonds and Jen Kelly |
The Sun (article) |
GREENIES injured at a logging site confrontation have ignored a noon
deadline to get out of the Otways. The Otway Ranges Environment Network
said members were attacked by loggers wielding baseball bats and axe handles
last night. |
| 3/4/2000 |
Police investigate logging clash |
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The Age (article) |
Police are investigating a confrontation between logging industry workers
and conservationists at a logging site near Lorne last night. Police said
five people were taken to Lorne hospital with minor injuries after the
two groups of between 20 and 30 people clashed at the Middle Spur site.
A protest by conservationists and local residents took place at Middle
Spur recently and logging was halted as a result. |
| 2/4/2000 |
State's quick fix on forests could backfire |
Claire Miller, Environment Reporter |
The Age (article) |
The regional forest agreements for western Victoria and Gippsland,
signed last Friday, have a little something for everyone to help the medicine
go down. But the Bracks Government is asking a lot for the community to
trust that everything will be all right in the end. |
| 1/4/2000 |
When the lights went out in paradise |
Andrew Rule 1/4/2000 |
The Age (article) |
As 4000 people gathered at Apollo Bay, on the other side of the Otways,
for the biggest night of the eighth annual music festival being held there,
someone else was making plans for the festival, too. They were planning
to sabotage it. Was it a stupid act by angry loggers who fear their
livelihoods are under threat? Or a calculated conspiracy by lunatic-fringe
green activists? |
| 31/3/2000 |
Green groups attack forest deal |
Simon Johanson and AAP |
The Age Online |
Forestry agreements to be signed today by the state and federal government
do little to protect the environment and lock in old-growth forests woodchipping
for the next 20 years, environment groups maintain.
http://www.theage.com.au/frontpage/20000331/A41634-2000Mar31.html |
| 30/3/2000 |
High-powered source of woodchips |
Mark Smith, Anglesea |
The Age (letter) |
So someone cut down power poles to black out Apollo Bay. perhaps its
a sign of things to come. If the western regional forest agreement due
to be signed this week goes ahead, allowing unfettered woodchipping for
the next 20 years, power poles will be the only things in the Otways left
to harvest. |
| 28/3/2000 |
Save trees, save health, say doctors |
Claire Miller |
The Age (article) |
A group of Melbourne doctors will begin an advertising campaign this
week warning of the public health risks of clear-felling forests in water
catchments. Doctors for Native Forests say the Federal and
State Governments are failing to take environmental health issues seriously
as they prepare to sign 20-year regional forest agreements on Friday. |
| 28/3/2000 |
Inquiry reveals state log records in disarray |
Claire Miller, Environment Reporter |
The Age (article) |
A federal inquiry has revealed serious deficiencies in the State Government's
records for timber felling in public native forests. |
| 27/3/2000 |
Victoria forestry industry running massive trade deficit |
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The Age (article) |
Victoria is continuing to run a huge trade deficit in forest products.
According to the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics,
Victoria imported forest products valued at $50.62 million in the September
quarter, and exported $36.8 million worth. |
| 23/3/2000 |
Protest stops Lorne logging |
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The Age (article) |
Conservationists have blocked logging in the Cumberland River headwaters
near Lorne, one of the last refugees for the endangered spot-tailed quoll
in the Otways. |
| 20/3/2000 |
State defends forest rezoning |
Claire Miller, Environment Reporter |
The Age (article) |
Old-growth forest in a semi-permanent reserve in far East Gippsland
has been reclassified for logging without public review. Legal advice obtained
by conservationists warns that logging in the reserve - a special protection
zone along Hensleigh Creek, near Cann River -- may be unlawful because
it was reclassified without public consultation. |
| 9/3/2000 |
Plea to save threatened quoll |
Claire Miller, Environment Reporter |
The Age (article) |
Clear-fell logging and poison baiting of introduced animals must be
stopped if the State Government is serious about saving spot-tailed quells
from extinction, a biologist has warned. |
| 8/3/2000 |
Labor must fulfil its green promise |
Mark D. Bek |
The Age (letter) |
Why is Victoria about to sign seriously flawed regional forest agreements
for East Gippsland and Western Victoria?
Old-growth forests are irreplaceable scenic, biological and scientific
treasure troves. Loggers and the Department of Natural Resources and Environment
see no value in forests apart from timber. Future generations will hold
their heads in despair at our destruction of these forests. |
| 7/3/2000 |
Our forests are not in safe hands |
Peter Campbell, 6/3/2000 |
The Age (letter - not published) |
Sherryl Garbutt's claim (Age 6/3) that she has 'release a policy statement
indicating new directions for sustainable forest management' is not substantiated
by fact. The unconscionable acts of recent violence by loggers against
forest protestors in the Otways and East Gippsland clearly demonstrate
that the Regional Forest Agreements deliver unbalanced and inappropriate
outcomes. |
| 6/3/2000 |
Why your forests are in safe hands |
Sherryl Garbutt, State Minister for the Environment |
The Age (article) |
"There have been significant changes to the way our forests are managed
since the election of the Bracks Government four months ago. We have moved
swiftly to implement our promise to open the decision-making in this area
and to try to re-establish the trust in government destroyed in Kennett
era" - sounds to me more like the resources minister talking. |
| 2/3/2000 |
No, Minister not good enough |
Claire Miller, Environment reporter |
The Age (article) |
Sherryl Garbutt inspires no confidence as the new manager of our forests.
Sir Humphrey Appleby would be proud. In four short months, state Labor's
well-meaning policy to put forestry on an ecologically sustainable footing
has been sidelined, leaving the bureaucrats who ran the show during the
Kennett years to get on with business as usual. |
| 02/2000 |
Buypass Bunnings |
Wilderness Society |
Leaflet |
Did you know that Bunnings clearfell logs in Western Australia's old-growth
Jarrah and Karri forests, controlling every stage of the process from the
felling of trees to selling the resulting timber and woodchips? |
| 02/2000 |
Forest plan a disaster: Nationals |
Claire Miller, Environment Reporter |
The Age (article) |
The National Party has joined conservationists and the timber industry
in urging the Bracks Government to reject the latest proposals for Commonwealth-state
forest agreements. |
| 25/2/2000 |
Submission to the West Victoria RFA
independent panel |
Peter Campbell |
Via post |
The draft consultation paper is a great disappointment. The reserve
system proposed is about the same as the existing Otway Forest management
Plan reserve system, which is not large enough. There is a lack of
real consideration given to the "non-timber" values of the Otway Forests
including water, tourism and biodiversity, as per my comments that follow. |
| 25/2/2000 |
Submission to the Gippsland RFA independent
panel |
Peter Campbell |
Via post |
The draft consultation paper has increased the area in reserves in
Gippsland by 265,000 hectares, including some areas of significant size.
However, overall, the proposal fails to fully protect the areas of high
conservation values in Gippsland's beautiful forests. |
| 24/2/2000 |
Forest violence: follow Queensland |
Louise Matthiesson, Woolloongabba, Qld |
The Age (letter) |
The disgusting violence in the forests of East Gippsland is not just
the act of ugly timber industry thugs; it is the product of repeated policy
failures by successive Victorian governments, both Labor and Liberal. |
| 23/2/2000 |
Violence in forests must stop |
Peter Campbell |
The Age (letter - not published) |
Recent reports (ABC radio 22/2) carried the alarming news that forest
protesters have just been attacked in East Gippsland by a large group of
men. Clearly, the situation in Victorian forests is now out of control. |
| 23/2/2000 |
Clear felling worse than we know |
Colin Smith, Glen Waverley |
The Age (letter) |
Thanks to Tracey O'Brien for her letter (19/2) about clearfelling without
restoration. In fact, the situation is even worse than Tracey thinks. The
forests will not regenerate in two generations. They will never regenerate. |
| 23/2/2000 |
Forest rehabilitation methods work well |
Graeme Gooding, executive director, Victorian Association of Forest
Industries |
The Age (letter) |
Re "How foresters must change their ways" (19/12), Tracey O'Brien claims
the timber industry believes it cannot rehabilitate native areas after
harvesting because it is too expensive. I strongly dispute that. |
| 23/2/2000 |
Government urged to step in as forest conflict intensifies |
Claire Miller, Environment Reporter |
The Age (article) |
A union head is urging the State Government to intervene to end escalating
violence between conservationists and timber workers. The call
came as the Environment and Conservation Minister, Ms Sherryl Garbutt,
condemned the violence of an overnight raid on a conservationists' camp
in East Gippsland. |
| 16/2/2000 |
A lot of explaining to do |
Claire Miller |
The Age (article) |
Last June, the federal Forestry and Conservation Minister, Wilson Tuckey,
joined Victoria's then Conservation Minister, Marie Tehan, in predicting
a rosy and robust future for the state's native forest timber industry.
They were wrong. |
| 6/2/1999 |
Chainsaw massacre |
Fred Pearce |
New Scientist (article), Page 11 |
In North America, they can't see the wood for the trees.
The US and Canada have seriously overestimated how much timber they
can harvest without harming their forests, claims a leading international
science agency. Despite urging other countries to log sustainably, neither
country has reliable data on the size of its own forests, how much timber
grows in them or how much can be removed before biodiversity suffers. |
| 10/2/2000 |
Tensions escalate over native forests |
Claire Miller, Environment Reporter |
The Age (article) |
Tensions over logging in native forests escalated dramatically yes
terday when the State Government sent police to clear out protesters camped
on a disputed ridge in Otways. |
| 3/2/2000 |
Forest plan a disaster: Nationals |
By Claire Miller, Environment Reporter |
The Age (article) |
The National Party has joined con servationists and the timber industry
are urging the Bracks Government to reject the latest proposals for Commonwealth-state
forest agreements. |
| 1/2/2000 |
Who-whoose looking after Trentham? |
Andrew Walker-Morison |
Letter to The Age
(not published) |
Owls are, traditionally, wise with long memories and an ability to
see things that we do not. It is ironically fitting that, as we fail
to learn from the massive lessons of land degredation, fail to ignore extinction
warnings |
| 1/2/2000 |
Create jobs and save the environment |
Mark Dixon
Wheelers Hill |
The Age (article) |
The release of the Western Victorian Regional Forests Agreement report
has raised questions as to whether the Victorian Government is willing
to honor its pre-election promises. |
| 31/1/2000 |
Rare owls set of new forest furore |
Claire Miller, Environment Reporter |
The Age (article) |
The Department of Natural Resources and Environment has a choice about
what to do with the forest around the central Victorian hamlet of Trentham.
It can fell it for sawlogs and woodchips, or leave the forest standing
to protect a pair of endangered powerful owls that have made Trentham their
home. |
| 31/1/2000 |
700 jobs at risk, says timber industry |
Philip Hopkin |
The Age (article) |
At Least 700 jobs will be lost in western Victoria and Gippsland and
businesses will close, if the State Government adopts the regional forest
agreements (RFAs) proposed for these areas, according to the timber industry. |
| 25/1/2000 |
Pressure mounts over forest jobs |
Claire Miller, Environment Reporter, |
The Age (article) |
Pressure is mounting on the State Government to radically restructure
its public forestry operations in western Victoria to avoid open confrontation
with conservation groups, and to save dozens of timber jobs in the bush. |
| 24/1/2000 |
Spotlight on future of forest industries |
Philip Hopkins |
The Age (article) |
The tourism and timber industries in Gippsland and western
Victoria, worth more than $1 billion a year, are under scrutiny.
They form the subject matter of consultation papers released last week
on the proposed regional forest agreements for West Victoria and Gippsland. |
| 24/1/2000 |
More trees, less timber in Gippsland |
Philip Hopkins |
The Age (article) |
Native forest reserves would be substantially expanded and areas available
to the timber industry cut back under proposals contained in the Gippsland
Regional Forest Agreement Consultation Paper. |
| 24/1/2000 |
Log losses in the west balanced by tourists |
Philip Hopkins |
The Age (article) |
More native forest would be protected and resources for the timber
industry reduced under draft proposals contained in the West Victoria Regional
Forest Agreement Consultation Paper. The paper said the draft reserve system
would add about 168,000 hectares to existing reserves -- an increase of
40 per cent. |
| 22-23/1/00 |
Mixed tree plantings can beat salinity |
Claire Konkes |
The Australian (article), 22-23/1/00 |
Two separate CSIRO research projects indicate a new direction for Australian
forest management as scientists identify the connection between forests
and water supply. Don White, of the CSIRO Products Division, has
identified that planting a mixture of trees is better for the soil and
water quality. |
| 19/1/2000 |
Forest protection needed |
Peter Campbell |
Not published yet |
A shift from native forests to plantations by Victoria's, indeed Australia's,
logging industry is long overdue. |
| 19/1/2000 |
Forest proposal shocks industry |
Claire Miller, Environment Reporter |
The Age (article) |
Victoria's native forest industry face hundreds of job losses and big
cuts in timber harvesting under Commonwealth/state
forest agreements proposed for Gippsland and western Victoria. |
| 15/1/2000 |
New century . . new park |
Environment Victoria & VNPA |
Media Release |
Together with regional groups and local supporters from Western Victoria,
Environment Victoria (EV) and the Victorian National Parks Association
(VNPA) are calling for the creation of a new National Park. This
park would be in Victoria's far south-west. |
| 15/1/2000 |
Such a tragic destruction |
Darcy Smith, Yarraville |
The Age (letter) |
What is taking place in the Otway forests is a shame. To witness the
dawn-to-dusk convoy of logging trucks |
| 15/1/2000 |
Environment |
Rob Bakes, Kyneton |
The Age (And another thing . . .) |
Unless the Environment Minister, Ms Cheryl Garbutt, has the guts to
sack the key Kennett forest bureaucrats . . . |
| 15/1/2000 |
Environment |
Sally Stabback, Newham |
The Age (And another thing . . .) |
Finally, the little people get a say about their forest, |
| 13/1/2000 |
Greens straddle policital spectrum |
Rob Wagner, North Ringwood |
The Age (letter) |
The results of the recent Morgan Poll (TheAge, 11/1) of forest communities
in central Victoria are both astonishing and comforting! |
| 11/1/2000 |
Labor's timber policy rejected |
Claire Miller, Environment Reporter |
The Age (article) |
The State Government is facing the first serious test of its election
commitment to regional consultation and representation after forest
communities in central Victoria overwhelmingly rejected Labor's timber
policy. |
| 20/12/1999 (?) |
Forest group faces challenge |
Claire Miller, Environment Reporter |
The Age (article) |
A shire council is considering legal action against the new American
owners of Victoria's state plantations over alleged breaches of forestry
codes
and regulations in Gippsland's Strzelecki ranges. |
| 21/12/1999 |
Protesters sue loggers' trade union |
Claire Miller, Environment Reporter |
The Age (article) |
Conservationists say they were imprisoned by timber workers. |
| 21/12/1999 |
Record for giant set for the chop |
Zenon Pasieczny, Hobart |
The Age (article) |
Tasmania has claimed a bittersweet victory in its quest to enter the
Guinness Book of Records with the world's tallest Christmas tree.
Although wilderness activists are confident of inclusion in the record
book for their 8O-metre Eucalyptus regnans (mountain ash) strewn with more
than 3000 fairy lights they know the tree is due to be felled sometime
next year. |
| 11/11/1999 |
Environment |
John Hermans, Clifton Creek
Sandy Simpson, Hepburn Springs |
The Age (And Another Thing . . ) |
Logging industry withholding $6 million in royalties. Loggers
get greater subsidies than conservation groups get grants.
Government should be held accountable for its environmental policy,
which is endangering humanity. |
| 9/11/1999 |
Row over logging 'subsidies' |
Claire Miller Environment Reporter |
The Age (article) |
Conservationists describe the timber Industry debt as an outrageous
subsidy. The Victorian timber industry owes the State Government at least
$6 million in royalties, licence fees and other charges. |
| 9/11/1999 |
Australia’s forest crisis escalates |
National Forests List |
Media Release, 9/11/99 |
15th National Forest Summit, East Gippsland, Victoria
Source: Fifty representatives from forest conservation groups Australia-wide
attended the 15th National Forest Summit, which concluded today in Victoria's
East Gippsland. The group reported that the forest crisis is worsening
across the nation. |
| 31/7/1999 |
Slash-and-burn policy so wrong |
Gillian Breth, East Brighton, |
The Age (letter) |
Let's fell old-growth forests and burn them like coal to make electricity.
That's the latest brainchild of Business Victoria (The Age, 22/7). Apparently
our forests are to be despised and "you might as well burn the lot standing''
to make way for "better timber". |
| 27/7/1999 |
Woodchip burn plan is madness |
Aaron Harvey, Donvale |
The Age (letter) |
Craig Eyes from Business Victoria has obviously never been to East
Gippsland if he believes that it is in the best interests of the forest
to ''burn the lot standing'' (The Age, 22/7). This is an outrageous suggestion
that should be dismissed as madness immediately. |
| Amazon 1999 |
Destruction of Amazon Rainforest |
Greenpeace |
Greenpeace Brochure |
When the trees go, everything else goes, too. Forests provide the world
with clean air, fresh water and play a vital role in maintaining our
global climate. Every time a tree is felled, carbon is released into the
atmosphere At the moment, forest destruction is increasing world carbon
emissions by nearly 20% - a significant contribution to global warming. |
| 3/6/1999 |
Forest timber underpriced: report |
Claire Miller, Evironment Reporter, |
The Age (article) |
A report says forest management is uncompetitive and needs clearer
goals. |
| 20/5/1999 |
Forestry plan panned by biodiversity expert |
Claire Miller, Environment Reporter |
The Age (article) |
CSIRO and loggers plan to convert native forest to plantations |
| 8/5/1999 |
Logging, tourism and conservation |
Stephen Gulliford, Secretary, Beechworth Environment Group |
The Age (letter) |
Logging is doomed, tourism and plantations is the future |
| 8/5/1999 |
Logging and global species |
Jon Drohan, Director of Resources, Victorian Association of Forest
Industries, Melbourne |
The Age (letter) |
Logger's reply to Age 26/4 article; attempts to refute extinction threat) |
| 8/5/1999 |
If you go down to the woods today. Greenies hurt by forest dea |
David Reardon, Perth |
The Age (article) |
W.A. Regional Forest Agreement outcome disastrous for conservation
of forests |
| 4/5/1999 |
Extinction threat from logging is real |
Peter Campbell |
Not published |
Response to scientific goobledygook in #189, not published |
| 28/4/1999 |
The cost of agriculture |
Peter Attiwill and ]ane Fewings,
Scientists for Sustainability Project, School of Botany, University
of Melbourne, Parkville |
The Age (letter) |
189 Condones logging industry; but let's not confuse tree farms with
forests |
| 21/4/1999 |
Extinctions in forests |
Professor Tony Norton, Professor Hugh Possingham, Professor Harry F.
Recher |
Public Statement |
188 Public statement from independent forest researchers |
| 24/4/1999 |
NAFI is wrong on that book |
Dr. Barry Traill, Australian Woodlands Conservancy, Chiltern |
The Age (letter) |
187 Logging has caused local extinctions |
| 22/4/1999 |
Jobs, greens and hypocrisy |
John Poppins |
The Age (letter) |
Answers 184; hypocrisy lies with forest industries which kills jobs
and forests |
| 22/4/1999 |
Timber group cleared |
Claire Miller |
The Age (article) |
ACCC clears NAFI, investigation widened to include other allegations
of boycotts |
| 21/4/1999 |
Hypocrisy of green groups: Bain |
Robert Bain, executive director, National Association of Forest Industries
Ltd |
The Age (letter) |
One from the spin doctor, greens are extremists, intimidate, cost jobs
etc etc |
| 21/4/1999 |
Thanks, but no thanks, Mrs Tehan |
Jill Redwood coordinator, Concerned Residents of East Gippsland, Orbost |
The Age (letter) |
East Gippsland RFA protects 0.007 percent more forest, the
remainder will be chipped |
| 21/4/1999 |
Wood book wins WA champion |
Claire Miller, Environment Reporter |
The Age (article) |
WA National Party state director launches Forest-Friendly Building
Timbers book |
| 18/4/1999 |
Freedom to speak the truth - but whose? |
Terry Lane |
The Sunday Age (article) |
Good discussion of the right to publish free from "timber
industry censorship |
| 12/4/1999 |
Fels enters fight over forest book |
Claire Miller, Environment Reporter |
The Age (article |
Timber industry may be on shaky legal ground over a forest-friendly
book |
| 12/4/1999 |
Listen closely: your forests are being felled |
Claire Miller |
The Age (article) |
Lack of public knowledge of RFAs, forests forgotten,
yet industry sensitive |
| 19/4/1999 |
Sawmiller takes on timber book lobby |
Darrin Farrant, Consumer Reporter |
The Age (article) |
Sawmiller supports and sells Forest-Friendly
Building Timbers book |
| 14/4/1999 |
Timber industry faces probe |
Claire Miller, Environment Reporter |
The Age (letter) |
ACCC to investigate possible breaches of the Trade Practices
act by NAFI |
| 13/4/1999 |
Ire comes out of the woodwork |
Claire Miller, Environment Reporter |
The Age (article) |
The Federal Opposition yesterday joined in the condemnation of the
timber industry's attempts to quash a book promoting plantation and recycled
timber. |
| 6/4/1999 |
Forests face the chop under new state plan |
Claire Miller, Environment Reporter |
The Age (article) |
RFAs will lead to destruction of native forest |
| 28/2/1999 |
Firebomb attack on Olympic legend |
Nick Taylor |
http://www.news.com.au/ |
Things get very ugly in W.A. |
| 25/2/1999 |
Old-growth forests inspire old-guard crusader |
Jan Mayman |
The Age (article) |
Widespread opposition to native forest logging in W.A. among
conservatives |
| 1/3/1999 |
The official word on plantations |
Anon |
The Age (article) |
Lots of plantation resource and yet we STILL clearfell native forest |
| 4/3/1999 |
Loggers harass fashion designer |
David Reardon, Perth |
The Age (article) |
More ugly stuff in W.A. |
| March 1999 |
Summary of Report of the Senate Committee of Enquiry in the Regional
Forest Agreements |
John Poppin |
Not published |
The whole of the text can be found at http://www.aph.gov.au/hansard/senate/commttee/comsen.htm |