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Forest & Wood Communities Australia has called for Tasmanian Greens MP Cassy O’Connor to resign after she accused a timber worker of attempted murder.

One of the Gippsland timber community’s most respected members has joined Forest & Wood Communities Australia as National Membership Manager.

The adage goes “don’t believe everything you hear” but in the case of the Greens latest stunt maybe that should be “don’t believe every signature that you read”.

Trees in special protection zones were illegally cut by anti-forestry activists to construct a tree sit during anti-forestry protests in the Central Highlands recently.

When a State Government Minister admits to discouraging its own agency from pursuing a $2m debt owed by anti-forestry activists, the unholy alliance between Government and activism is laid bare.

Forest & Wood Communities Australia (FWCA) is calling on the Victorian Government to stop assisting activism and order MyEnvironment to pay its $2m debt to the taxpayer.

It is now racing towards two years since Forest & Wood Communities Australia was conceived. In that time, we have achieved a great deal, despite the challenges of Covid, and we are looking forward to getting out and continuing to build our membership and our presence in the…

Forest workers, their families and communities have been deeply disturbed by an economic analysis released last week by the Australian National University and consultancy firm, Frontier Economics.

Forest & Wood Communities Australia continues to defend its members and all who live and work in forest communities against the ongoing ideological war on forestry.

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.