Forestry, Logging and Timber Industry

Deals behind closed doors, tight time frames, a polarised public and attempts to go around planning processes — comparisons are being drawn between the Macquarie Point stadium and Gunns pulp mill processes.

The Victorian government has tasked councils with approving native timber logging projects for private land, which can allow harvesting despite statewide bans.

The state government has identified five parcels of land for logging, but redacted their location. It has left some Tasmanians "shocked that in 2025 that we're actually having to fight for our native forests".

The Oscar-winning actor is not happy with the federal energy minister for signing off on a bauxite mine expansion that would see 3,855 hectares of native forest cleared.

A protester was suspended 20 metres in the air, attached to logging machinery, when forestry worker Patrick John Mellor cut one of the ropes. She could be heard screaming, while Mellor walked away sipping his drink.

Bernie Capelli has spent decades as a carpenter and joiner in Western Australia, but with the state's timber supplies dwindling, he doesn't know where the next generation of workers will come from.

The corporation is under fire after correcting reports on native forest logging, retrospectively cutting volumes by almost 30 per cent over the past three years.

A plan to build more than 100 wind turbines in pine plantations close to a unique wetland in south-west Victoria is out for public comment. 

A semitrailer carrying toilet paper catches fire while driving through dry farmland and pine forests in south-western Victoria, but "luck" and cooperation prevent the blaze from causing a much larger disaster.

There are calls for an end to logging in forests being considered for the Great Koala National Park, as the government signals that it's close to completing the required assessment process.

Protesters disrupting logging in Tasmania appear to be gradually having trespass charges dropped by prosecutors, with 16 people walking free so far.

The WA government insists its native timber logging ban was well planned and timber towns are now thriving, but others say they are falling through the cracks.

One of Australia's largest melon producers has bought a portfolio of Indian sandalwood properties in the Douglas Daly region of the NT.

When an 80-metre gum tree in the Tasmanian forest was due to be cut down for logging, conservationists turned it into the world’s tallest Christmas tree.

The NSW native logging industry is not "economically viable" and the state government should consider shutting it down after 2028 if its prospects do not improve, an independent economic regulator has recommended.

Papua New Guinea's largest agro-forestry project has been linked to a massive land-grab scandal more than a decade ago.

An ABC investigation has linked the Australian businessmen behind Papua New Guinea's largest agroforestry project to key figures in a massive Indigenous land grab scandal in the country's Western Province more than a decade ago.

Right to information documents have revealed that parcels of native forest that could soon be available for logging in Tasmania contain vast swathes of "old growth" forest and threatened species. The information was released against the government's wishes.

Geoff North has planted hundreds of thousands of trees on his family's former dairy farm over the past three decades and now he's reaping the rewards.

There are only a few states in Australia which allow logging of native trees in publicly owned forests but now carbon credit farming could change that.