The Australian Government is increasing support for construction businesses to use low‑carbon timber and deliver jobs in our forest industries across regional Victoria. The Government, through the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), is investing $300 million in the Timber Building Program. Minister for Industry, Energy and Emissions Reduction, Angus Taylor said the Program will finance…
Nationals Senator for Victoria, Bridget McKenzie has welcomed today’s High Court decision to refuse to grant leave to an anti-native forestry activist group who sought to appeal the decision of the Full Bench of the Federal Court in their case against VicForests. The decision follows ongoing green lawfare by Friends of Leadbeater’s Possum against VicForests’…
It was great speaking to Alan Jones on Sky News about net zero emissions. The National Party of Australia, as the second party in this Coalition government, has not signed up to net-zero anything at any time. We will not sacrifice reliable energy and jobs. We’ll take a lot of convincing that that is actually…
Extremist green lawfare continues to threaten the supply of Australia’s timber supply and jobs with the native forest industry in Victoria left in the lurch while Friends of Leadbeater’s Possum Inc. continue to seek to permanently end native forestry operations. Harvesting will continue to cease until the appeal to the High Court is heard, which…
A round table forum with Gippsland forestry professionals and Nationals MP’s has reaffirmed support for Victoria’s sustainable native and plantation timber industry. Held at the Gippsland Forestry Hub in Churchill, the group discussed future strategies to support the native timber and plantation industries and the importance of all timber jobs to Gippsland’s economy. The Nationals…
Today is a great day for Australian foresters as a government report tabled in the Senate recommends changes to the Regional Forest Agreements framework to give operational certainty that the native forest industry has been crying out for. This follows a controversial ruling of Justice Mortimer which undermined two decades of environmental oversight of forestry…
Watch here. Senator McKENZIE (Victoria—Leader of the Nationals in the Senate) (13:47): Today, the drums of democracy are beating loudly for our native forest industry as this week a full bench of the Federal Court upheld the appeal of VicForests against the action by Friends of Leadbeater’s Possum following the years of uncertainty Justice Mortimer’s finding…
Yesterday, the Federal Court unanimously ruled that Regional Forest Agreements (RFAs) do uphold the Commonwealth’s required environmental standards. That is why The National Party, through Leader of the Nationals in the Senate, Senator McKenzie’s Private Senator’s Bill, has sought to clarify this since the ruling of Justice Mortimer in May last year. The finding comes…
Great to catch up with Paul Murray on his program last night especially to talk about the Nationals fight, through my private senators bill, to give much needed certainty to the forestry industry. The bill will clarify legal uncertainty created by a Federal Court ruling last year that threatens Regional Forest Agreements (RFAs) around Australia…
BY Tamsin Rose Anti-logging protesters in East Gippsland have been slammed for placing a toddler in danger and using the child as a “political pawn”. Photos obtained by the Herald Sun show a small child wandering alone near heavy forestry machinery on April 9. CFMEU national secretary Michael O’Connor said it was not the first…