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Nov 29, 2021 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Over the past week we’ve reported serious allegations of poor conduct in the Victorian native forestry sector. It revolves around allegations of illegal and unethical behaviour by the government-owned company VicForests and allegations of complicity by the government regulator.🧵
First we reported on evidence of widespread and systemic illegal logging in water catchments. We obtained detailed data that told a compelling story. The regulator didn’t properly investigate. abc.net.au/news/2021-11-2…
May 18, 2019 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
So now the Environment Minister will presumably come out and speak about all the issues she’s ducked for the last couple of months? Here’s a few it would be nice to hear from her about:
Internal CSIRO correspondence reveals the science agency was pushed to formally accept the Federal Government's approval of Adani's water plans in a single afternoon. abc.net.au/news/2019-05-1…
