Labor doesn’t commit to native forest logging ban

The Albanese government has rejected an internal push to ban native forest logging, instead committing to rewrite the three-decades-old national forest policy statement this term. Labor Environment Action Network spokesperson, Felicity Wade, praised the commitment but labelled native forest logging a “travesty” in a speech to Labor’s national conference on Thursday.

Meanwhile, thousands of environmental and union protesters have marched on Labor's national conference in Brisbane in protest of climate change, the housing crisis and worker safety. 

Experts are warning Australia's most popular carbon credit scheme Human Induced Regeneration, which pays landholders to allow forests to regenerate, is not performing to standard. An estimated 80 per cent of projects have had tree cover either not improve or diminish. 

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Labor rejects ban on native forest logging as PM accuses Greens of hypocrisy on housing
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