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The Victorian Labor Government is rushing through a Bill designed to make it impossible for forest contractors to work in the bush without fear of prosecution.

Forest & Wood Communities Australia has presented the case for forest communities to the Major Event Review of the Victorian Regional Forest Agreements following the 2019-20 fires.

The review of the Victorian RFAs following the 2019-20 bushfires is an opportunity to call for a commonsense approach to native forestry.

Forest & Wood Communities Australia has called on the Hobart Magistrate’s Court to consider the motivation behind illegal workplace invasions as it deliberates on Bob Brown trespass charges.

Forest & Wood Communities Australia and several forest industry groups were successful in having insurance giant NRMA remove false and misleading material from its Every Home is Worth Protecting ad campaign.

We measure our success by the way our opponents have not only sat up and taken notice that there is an organisation speaking out on behalf of grassroots timber families, but have launched attacks on us through media sympathisers.

It seems Forest and Wood Communities Australia (FWCA) has struck a raw nerve within the activist community.

Victoria’s forestry families received peace of mind yesterday when VicForests won an appeal to overturn the May 2020 Federal Court decision which affected 66 logging coupes in the Central Highlands.

Forest & Wood Communities Australia has condemned the stupidity of an illegal workplace invader who put an infant’s life in danger for the sake of a media stunt.

Forest & Wood Communities Australia has welcomed Amy Robertson to the team as we expand our advocacy work for the people who work and live in our forest management regions.

The Safer Together policy, from both a biodiversity perspective and the protection of human lives and property, is most aptly described as no better than a public relations slogan — a slogan, quite literally, to die for.

The damage attributable to misinformation spread about forestry has been immense. Both in terms of industry livelihoods lost and rural lives unfairly over-turned by political decisions forced by misguided public sentiment.