Federal Labor frontbencher Joel Fitzgibbon has delivered a veiled swipe at the Andrews government over its decision to phase out Victoria’s native timber industry. …The decision by Premier Daniel Andrews earlier this month to end the harvesting of native hardwood timber from 2030 has caused a major split within the Labor movement, leading to fierce criticism from the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union. …Mr Fitzgibbon told the annual forestry industry dinner at Parliament House that government agreements had reliably provided the hardwood industry with resource security for more than two decades. …Mr Andrews has continued to brush aside savage union attacks about his decision to ban native logging and rejected criticism that the move will threaten thousands of jobs in regional Victoria.