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Darren Chester condemns Daniel Andrews plan to finish native forest logging

Paul Karp

The Nationals’ member for Gippsland, Darren Chester, has a twig on the Victorian authorities’s plan to section out native forest logging shortly earlier than query time.

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In my 15 years as a member of parliament I’ve by no means been extra disgusted in a authorities determination than I’m as we speak. The Dan Andrews authorities has kicked each hardworking native timber trade household within the guts as we speak and never a kind of reverse has raised a single phrase of protest.

Individuals and wildlife die in poorly managed forests. Dan Andrews has a plan to close down the native timber trade in 2024. It’s a plan to kill nation cities, it’s a plan to kill wildlife and a plan to kill Australian jobs. It is a Dan-made catastrophe which can devastate our communities and take a era to get well from …

If the Greens are cheering you’ve made the fallacious determination.

The Nationals’ member for Gippsland, Darren Chester, has a spray at the Victorian government’s plan to phase out native forest logging shortly before question time.

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He said:

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In my 15 years as a member of parliament I’ve never been more disgusted in a government decision than I am today. The Dan Andrews government has kicked every hardworking native timber industry family in the guts today and not one of those opposite has raised a single word of protest.

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People and wildlife die in poorly managed forests. Dan Andrews has a plan to shut down the native timber industry in 2024. It’s a plan to kill country towns, it’s a plan to kill wildlife and a plan to kill Australian jobs. This is a Dan-made disaster which will devastate our communities and take a generation to recover from …

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If the Greens are cheering you’ve made the wrong decision.

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Former Morrison minster Melissa Price wants to know from aged care minister Anika Wells:

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Already 23 aged care homes have closed under this government, compared to 300 opening under the former Coalition government. The Albanese government decision to [bring forward] the royal fee’s suggestions has imposed inflexible constraints on the sector. Will the federal government now make a dedication to increasing the exemption standards till the present workforce disaster has been addressed?

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(The Tveeder transcription adjustments aged care minister to the menace of aged care, which reveals AI is alive to the vibe of Worth’s query.)

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Wells is just not having it as we speak:

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I can’t consider these reverse, of all weeks, would select this week to attempt to lecture the federal government on administration and funding of the aged care system. And to recommend, to dare criticise us for attempting to tug each single lever we now have at our disposal to attempt to carry the usual of aged care as rapidly as humanly doable. To stroll into this chamber and criticise us for attempting to take that motion to carry the usual of look after residents is unfathomable, that they’ve realized nothing after neglecting the sector for 9 lengthy years, to stroll in now and criticise the individuals left cleansing up their mess.

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Question time is about to begin – but first we have to get through the airing of the grievances/MP amateur stand up known as the 90-second statements.

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… And we are now straight into it with the latest version of “why does (middle) Australia always suffer under a Labor government” which is the Coalition’s latest obsession.

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Anthony Albanese reads through the usual laundry list:

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I am asked about middle Australia. It cares about the wages. Wages are increasing under this government. Middle Australia cares about their kids getting access to cheaper childcare. I tell you what middle Australia cares about, particularly in the regions, they care about manufacturing jobs, that’s what middle Australia cares about.

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I tell you what middle Australia cares about, they want to go to the doctor for free and receive bulk billing and 11 million Australians in middle Australia will be able to do that as a result of this government’s actions.

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I tell you what middle Australia cares about, they want to pay less for medicines and under our government they will. Middle Australia cares about – when it comes to aged care workers, 250,000 will receive a pay increase. That’s what middle Australia cares about.

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They [the Coalition] are so out of contact, they solely discuss to one another about themselves – they need to get on the market and discuss to center Australia about what their considerations are.

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Perhaps it was better Japan’s PM Fumio Kishida isn’t visiting Australia this week as there might be a few awkward hydrogen conversations.

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Back in April, we flagged here that Japan’s $500m plan to use Victorian brown coal to produce hydrogen had some big challenges to clear. Not least of them was a reluctance by the Japanese consortium to secure offtake agreements that would last more than about a couple of years.

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In other words, after a short period they could walk away and source the hydrogen from somewhere else, leaving Victorians to find new customers (and also deal with the captured carbon emissions).

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The 2023-24 federal budget dealt one blow to the plans by not offering any more money to the $50m the commonwealth had already tipped in.

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Guardian Australia understands the debate within the Victorian government was quite willing, with the treasurer, Tim Pallas (with encouragement from media outlets such as the AFR), the main proponent for tipping in more funds. The consortium had hoped the feds and Vics would double their $100m subsidy.

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Anyway, the 2023-24 Victorian budget had allocated zero money for the project, which we have to assume puts it literally on the back burner.

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The head of the Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Paul Guerra, says the state government’s budget – which includes a “Covid debt repayment” levy for big business – will “directly impact jobs and investment”. He says in a statement:

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The government says this is the plan to pay off the ‘COVID credit card debt’ but they’re doing that by using medium to large businesses and property owners as an ATM over the next 10 years.

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It’s certainly a departure from the ‘all in it together’ approach taken throughout the pandemic and this will directly impact jobs and investment in Victoria.

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There are some positive initiatives including funding for manufacturing, major events, exports, renewable energy and training. The Victorian Chamber also welcomes the stamp duty reform and the payroll tax offsets for smaller enterprises, but this Budget will be remembered for job cuts and tax hikes.

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Elsewhere, the Nationals leader, David Littleproud, declared again that his party would oppose the referendum bill in parliament – despite Peter Dutton previously saying the Liberals were inclined to support it, and allow the referendum to occur.

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Littleproud admitted “mistakes were made” during British settlement in relation to Indigenous Australians, but believed Australians would be “stronger working together with Indigenous Australians rather than apart”. Littleproud also called for a “respectful” debate around the voice.

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Dutton did not mention the voice in the Coalition party room, nor the official information pamphlet.

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Peter Dutton has told the Coalition he doesn’t want to “rush to failure” by putting out too many policies early in his term as opposition leader, and told his troops they need to “work together as a team” to win the Fadden byelection and hold Stuart Robert’s seat.

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The Coalition partyroom met this morning in Canberra, their first get-together since Dutton’s budget reply speech two weeks ago. Nationals leader David Littleproud addressed the meeting to praise the “vision and principles” outlined in Dutton’s speech, criticising the government’s budget as a “welfare budget” that he claimed would push inflation up (many leading economists and the treasury department disagree).

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Littleproud claimed the regions were “being done over” by the government’s infrastructure funding audit.

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One Coalition member, contributing to the meeting, suggested getting local mayors and other community groups involved in a campaign to oppose the mooted changes to infrastructure funding, which the opposition claims will see smaller regional projects axed (remember, this audit is being done to make sure all the Coalition’s projects announced in government actually meet criteria and weren’t just pork-barrelling ventures – or as infrastructure minister Catherine King described them, “press release projects”)

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The Victorian government is set to announce that it will ban native forest logging from the start of next year, reflecting a widely held belief that the industry is not environmentally or economically viable.

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The announcement, expected in today’s state budget, will bring forward the previous commitment to phase out native forest logging by 2030 and include transition funding for affected workers and communities.

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It follows the state’s forests being hit by devastating bushfires in 2019-20, reducing the area available for logging, and court decisions finding the state-owned timber agency VicForests had not adequately protected endangered species.

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Expectations the end was near have grown in recent months. VicForests stopped logging in November after the supreme court judged it had failed to protect the greater glider and yellow-bellied glider.

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In February, the Maryvale Mill in the Latrobe Valley, the state’s biggest, ended production of office paper in the state, blaming a lack of timber supply. VicForests had already reported a loss of more than $50m last financial year.

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It is expected the government will announce at least $200m in extra transition funding.

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The decision is unlikely to be welcomed in parts of regional Victoria that are home to native forest workers. Critics say plantations are not yet in place at a scale that can replace native forest timber.

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It will be celebrated by the state’s conservation movement, which has fought a decades-long battle to create new national parks and protect forests from clearfelling.

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The prime minister’s office and department published a transcript which omitted a key part of a journalist’s question about whether the government will call a royal commission into Covid.

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The omission from the transcript of a 15 May press conference in Adelaide has the effect of qualifying Anthony Albanese’s answer that the government will “examine it” to commit Labor only to consider “some kind of inquiry” but not specifically a royal commission.

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Under Albanese and his predecessor Scott Morrison, the Australian government has been pressed to call a royal commission into the response to Covid, including by a Senate inquiry chaired by the now finance minister Katy Gallagher when Labor was in opposition.

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The call is supported by the former independent senator Rex Patrick and a number of Labor, crossbench and Coalition senators.

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On 15 May, a journalist asked Albanese: “You have committed to some kind of inquiry like a royal commission into Australia’s handling of Covid, but there was nothing on this in the budget. When do you plan on calling one?”

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But the transcript, distributed by the prime minister’s office and published by the department, rendered the question: “You have committed to some kind of inquiry into Australia’s handling of Covid, but there was nothing on this budget. When you plan on doing that?”

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Albanese replied: “Covid is still amongst us. What I’ve said is that when we are confident that we’re through those issues, then we’ll examine it.”

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Guardian Australia understands the question may not have been clearly audible from the on-site recording, but the prime minister’s office declined to provide it.

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The question follows numerous instances of Albanese committing to an “examination” of Covid, but not specifically endorsing the Senate committee’s call for a royal commission.

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On 16 August Albanese told reporters that he has “said consistently that once we were through the pandemic, it would be inconceivable, regardless of who won the election in May, that you would not have a proper examination of the circumstances around the handling of the pandemic”.

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“We don’t just lock people up and forget about them,” home affairs secretary Michael Pezzullo has told senate estimates.

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Greens senator Nick McKim immediately replied:

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n

You certainly do.

n

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They were discussing comments from UN special rapporteur on torture, Anne Edwards, who said it was “inhumane” to detain people indefinitely.

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Pezzullo said there were “terminus points” for all refugees and asylum seekers, including trying to send them back to their country of origin, and that no one was detained “potentially eternally”.

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The department took on notice a request for more details on the length of time people are being detained for.

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Qantas is on track to deliver a record net profit of up to $2.48bn this financial year amid surging travel demand, representing a sharp turnaround for the national carrier.

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The forecast full year result to 30 June is underpinned by a flying schedule that is now more profitable than before the pandemic, Qantas disclosed in a market update on Tuesday morning.

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The result could be almost $1bn higher than its prior record in 2018, which came in at $1.6bn.

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Qantas’s profit margins have been helped by huge demand for domestic and international flights, high ticket prices and various cost savings.

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Qantas chief executive, Alan Joyce, said lower jet fuel prices were helping put downward pressure on fares, although he noted there was still excess demand.

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n

The industry remains capacity constrained and the travel category remains strong, so there’s still a mismatch between supply and demand that’s likely to persist for some time, especially for international flying.

n

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Many airlines are now recording bumper profits due in part to pent-up demand and high fares, after recording years of pandemic-disrupted losses.

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Qantas’s chief financial officer, Vanessa Hudson, will take over from Joyce as the airline’s chief executive in November.

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The conversation moves on to Stan Grant and whether Richard Marles agrees with some of the comments ABC news boss Justin Stevens has made about the criticism Grant experienced by organisations like News Corp and its “relentless campaign”.

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Marles is asked whether he has read some of the comments under articles about ABC staff which appear in newspapers like the Australian.

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Patricia Karvelas:

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n

Should those newspapers be dealing with the consequences and the commentary? I’ve read some of them I’ve read some of them about myself, too. They’re revolting.

n

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Marles:

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n

Look, I mean, they are revolting. It’s it’s an area in an age of social media where – where there are comments that are posted, well – anyone who engages in social media, I think we all need to do much better.

n

And the answer the question about why I haven’t read all them is precisely because of the impact which one has when you do read them all.

n

You know, I … do find it very troubling, is the short answer to the question. And I think this is a moment in Stan Grant’s decision for us all to have a long think about it.

n

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Welcome to day two of the parliament sitting – and estimates – as the house continues to be dominated by the referendum legislation debate. Liberal MP Julian Leeser is still looking for support to remove ‘executive government’ from the question, but the government has shown no indications it believes any shift is necessary.

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There were more than 70 speakers on the list yesterday – although not too many Coalition MPs. One Liberal MP who did make a splash was Bridget Archer who directly countered claims made by her party leader, Peter Dutton who said the voice would divide Australia by racial lines.

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n

No, the voice won’t have veto power or act as a third chamber … To claim otherwise is a deliberate and harmful misrepresentation of the facts, and I’m disappointed to have seen this wilfully perpetuated by some.

n

Nor does the argument that this referendum is dividing the country by race make sense.

n

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Anthony Albanese has a busy day – he will be in parliament in Canberra for most of the day, but is then headed to Sydney for a 6pm community event with Narendra Modi in what is the Indian prime minister’s first visit to Australia since 2014.

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Landed in Sydney to a warm welcome by the Indian community. Looking forward to various programmes over the next two days. pic.twitter.com/gE8obDI5eD

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) May 22, 2023

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There are also party room meetings, more budget debate and of course, estimates where the Coalition senators are doing their best to drum up a couple of headlines.

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We will bring you all the news as it happens with me, Amy Remeikis, on the blog. Paul Karp, Daniel Hurst and Josh Butler are keeping the Canberra office buzzing with all you need to know, while the rest of the Guardian brains trust will bring you news from outside Capital Hill.

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It is at least a two-coffee morning.

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Ready?

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Snowy Hydro’s tunnel borer, which has been stuck since 12 December just 70 metres into its work, should resume operations soon, Dennis Barnes, Snowy’s chief, told senate estimates on Monday night.

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Dubbed “Florence”, the 211 metre-long machine hit soft rock soon after it began the 17km-long tunnel that will be a key part of the giant Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro scheme.

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Work has been delayed while crews strengthened the rock around a sink hole that opened up in front of the borer and reached the surface. A separate plant to treat slurry rather than hard rock has had to be built sooner than expected, and should be commissioned by the end of May. Barnes said:

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n

Then we should be able to push forward with Florence slightly thereafter.

n

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After that, the borer will take “in the order of three years” to finish the tunnel.

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Barnes said earlier this month that Snowy 2.0 could be delayed by as long as two more years. That could take the commercial start date to 2029 or later, compared with an original target of July 2025.

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Barnes said the impacts of the delays and additional costs, and remedial efforts to speed up work, will be tallied later this year.

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The official costs – excluding transmission lines to link the plant to the main grid – are already estimated to be $5.9bn and critics expect them to exceed $10bn (assuming there aren’t other major challenges).

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Key occasions

Tory Shepherd

Burgess on the ‘hive of spies’

Asio chief Mike Burgess is being requested about his notorious feedback about disrupting a “hive of spies”, and why these spies weren’t prosecuted.

Greens senator David Shoebridge wonders why there should not felony prosecutions, for instance, when there are plots to lure Australians abroad and kill them.

Burgess mentioned typically the best resolution is elimination, not prosecution:

A method that spying can happen on this nation is there could be individuals posted to this nation underneath diplomatic cowl, who truly should not diplomats – they’re spies. And once we uncover that, we name it out and we take away them from this nation by letting their visa lapse [expelling them] from this nation.

The important thing factor within the case of the hive of spies was the best method of decreasing that hurt was to have them faraway from the nation quietly and successfully. The end result was achieved.

Shoebridge is doing his greatest to get Burgess to touch upon this story about Daniel Duggan, however Burgess is just not having a bar of it.

Darren Chester condemns Daniel Andrews plan to finish native forest logging

Paul Karp

The Nationals’ member for Gippsland, Darren Chester, has a twig on the Victorian authorities’s plan to section out native forest logging shortly earlier than query time.

He mentioned:

In my 15 years as a member of parliament I’ve by no means been extra disgusted in a authorities determination than I’m as we speak. The Dan Andrews authorities has kicked each hardworking native timber trade household within the guts as we speak and never a kind of reverse has raised a single phrase of protest.

Individuals and wildlife die in poorly managed forests. Dan Andrews has a plan to close down the native timber trade in 2024. It’s a plan to kill nation cities, it’s a plan to kill wildlife and a plan to kill Australian jobs. It is a Dan-made catastrophe which can devastate our communities and take a era to get well from …

If the Greens are cheering you’ve made the fallacious determination.

Emily Wind

Many due to Amy for taking us by way of the morning! I’ll be with you for the rest of the day, let’s get into it.

Adeshola Ore

Union says Victorian logging determination might price tons of of jobs

The union for timber trade employees has blasted the Andrews authorities for ending native forest logging sooner than anticipated.

In Tuesday’s finances, the Andrews authorities revealed it could convey ahead the top date of native logging to the beginning of subsequent yr slightly than the top of the last decade. It comes after court docket choices which discovered the state-owned timber company VicForests had not adequately protected endangered species.

Michael O’Connnor, nationwide secretary of the CFMEU, mentioned it was a choice “pushed by Spring Avenue” that did not seek the advice of the trade.

It’s a disgrace that he [premier Daniel Andrews] solely governs for Melbourne, Geelong, Ballarat and Bendigo. In case you’re in some other a part of the state, you don’t get a glance in.

O’Connor mentioned tons of of jobs might be misplaced from the choice.

Lisa Cox

‘Huge step ahead’ in bringing leadbeater’s possum again from brink

A small replace from atmosphere estimates a couple of very small possum. Each estimates listening to for years, the Greens senator Janet Rice has requested the division what has occurred to the overdue restoration plan for the leadbeater’s possum.

This query is especially related as we speak given one of many foremost threats to the critically endangered possum has been native forest logging in Victoria, which the Andrews authorities has introduced will finish in January.

Debate over forestry led to a plan to stop the extinction of the leadbeater’s possum stalling for years.

Atmosphere officers have come ready as we speak with a solution to this query and say they’re happy to report the draft plan is lastly prepared and has gone to the threatened species scientific committee for his or her evaluation.

A “very massive step ahead”, they are saying.

Tory Shepherd

Australian extremists are “impressed” by mass shootings abroad and neo-Nazi makes an attempt to recruit individuals have been “amplified”, however the terrorism menace is decrease, Asio’s Mike Burgess has advised Senate estimates.

However it nonetheless means it’s doable.

He additionally defined that far proper teams had been “smarter” and never advocating terror assaults publicly, so fewer of them had been listed as terrorist teams.

After questions on connections between anti-trans activists and neo-Nazis, Liberal senator Alex Antic wished to know if Asio was conscious of threats from “violent” trans activists.

Burgess mentioned:

Not from my perspective.