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A family day to be held in Bairnsdale on Sunday is an opportunity for forest communities to come together and support each other during a time of great uncertainty and distress.

Plans for a Koala Park and ‘transitioning’ native forestry to plantations are unnecessary and unworkable, threatening the livelihood of thousands of timber workers in the state.

Unless we all pull together and fight, then our sustainable, certified, world-class native timber sector which supports so many Australian regional communities will be lost forever.

When you’re moving out of your hometown or seeing your favourite shop close or supporting your partner who’s lost their job, can you say you did all you could?

The current timber supply shortages in Victoria brought about by vexatious legal action against VicForests is causing anguish among the people of Orbost, where 24% of its workforce faces the axe.

The current timber supply shortages in Victoria brought about by vexatious legal action against VicForests is causing anguish among the people of Orbost, where 24% of its workforce faces the axe.

The current timber supply shortages in Victoria brought about by vexatious legal action against VicForests is causing anguish among the people of Orbost, where 24% of its workforce faces the axe.

The inevitable job losses and the withering of regional communities is showing its first signs as log supply dwindles thanks to a Victorian Government which is using activism as its most potent tool.

Join us. If we all come together in one loud voice, the Government must take notice. There is an election coming and we can make a difference.

Eurobodalla Shire Council is playing eco-politics with timber. The deliberate transfer of the impacts of our hardwood consumption offshore, to less regulated operations is selfish, unethical and immoral.

Documents recently obtained under FOI from the ANU reveal that an anonymous donor had funded a cost-benefit analysis on the cessation of native forest harvesting in NSW.

Documents recently obtained under FOI from the ANU reveal that an anonymous donor had funded a cost-benefit analysis on the cessation of native forest harvesting in NSW.