A former Chief-of-Staff to Labor Prime Minister Julia Gillard has been covertly appointed to lead the Andrews Labor Government’s radical destruction of Victoria’s sustainable native timber industry. Late on Friday – under the cover of a Federal Election – Ben Hubbard, also formerly a senior adviser to Labor Premier Steve Bracks, was announced as the…
Freedom of Information (FOI) documents have today exposed the secret 18-month campaign by State Labor to axe thousands of Victorian jobs in the timber industry. The FOI documents, finally released to Wellington Shire Council after years of requests and appeals, show Premier Daniel Andrews signed off Labor’s 2030 ban on native timber in April 2018…
The Nationals leader and Shadow Agriculture Minister Peter Walsh said the Andrews Labor Government clearly wants to destroy Victoria’s native timber industry – and is “chopping down everyone and everything standing in its way” to do it. Mr Walsh said linked to this unicorn policy are the thousands of lives of those working directly in…
