BellingenNSWThe fight to end native logging
Anthony Albanese is taking a big electoral risk by continuing Howard-era native forest logging agreements. By Bob Brown.
"We live in a plutocracy. Big business prevails. Yet the destruction of native forests is stirring the public and will be a vote-changing issue at the next election, along with the cascading tragedy of global warming."
"Instead of protected koalas, the voters got protected logging corporations and a resumption of logging in key koala habitats with in-the-forest defenders facing arrest."
"Here’s how forest offsets work..."
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The fight to end native logging
At the loggers’ dinner at Canberra’s Hyatt Hotel last November, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese lauded “our sustainable native forestry practices” and “climate-smart forestry”. In doing so, Albanese was effectively backing in John Howard’s 1997 regional forest agreements.