AUSTRALIA — 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. Wade said that as long as the industry continues “we undermine the government’s policy objectives on ending extinctions and emissions reduction, and we prove ourselves a little bit deaf to the deep environmental concerns of our members”. …The Albanese government has used the first in-person national conference in five years – and the first in Queensland for five decades – to set out an agenda for “long-term government”.

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