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Victoria's state logging corporation has recorded a net loss of $60.1 million thanks to court losses over timber harvesting and protected animals and plants.

VicForests reject report findings but will develop new security and surveillance policy.

The shutting down of the industry six years earlier than scheduled comes after decades of conflict

By the end of the year, Victoria’s trouble-plagued native forest industry will end – six years ahead of schedule. The state’s iconic mountain ash forests and endangered wildlife will at last be safe from chainsaws. And there will be no shortage of wood – there’s more than enough plantation timber…

The Victorian government will phase out native timber logging by the end of the year and is expected to announce a transition package in the state budget.

More than $200 million in funding will be provided by the Victorian government as it accelerates plans to phase out native timber logging.

A government agency that allegedly spied on a woman to "dig up dirt" is slammed by Victoria's Information Commissioner, who says the agency should apologise for its response to her request for information about the alleged spying.

Australia has the world’s worst mammal extinction record, with nearly 40 native mammal species lost since European colonisation. By contrast, the United States has lost three.

Australian unions have leapt to the defence of workers facing the axe over the closure of Australia's last white paper manufacturing plant.