Finland ‘a green forestry model’
By PHILIP HOPKINS
FINLAND, with a population smaller than Victoria, has shown the big role that a large sustainable forestry industry can play in cutting...
VFF election results: Germano stays
MIRBOO North farmer Emma Germano has been re-elected president of the Victorian Farmers Federation.
VFF acting returning officer, Brendan Tatham, said VFF members had re-elected...
An Australian-first electro weeding trial is under way
A NON-CHEMICAL weeding device that uses electricity to kill plants will be put through its paces in Western Australia to determine its suitability for...
Nats win Traralgon, rural, ALP tops Morwell and Moe
By PHILIP HOPKINS
EXAMINATION shows that The Nationals' Martin Cameron won the seat of Morwell at the state election with majority support in Traralgon and...
SEC under way
By PHILIP HOPKINS
THE state government has taken first steps to revive the State Electricity Commission (SEC), transferring the SEC to a new Ministry, naming...
Here we go again
By LIAM DURKIN
ALWAYS good to have stability at the top.
Kellie O'Callaghan will carry the title of Mayor O'Callaghan for another 12 months,...
Plibersek backs RFAs
By PHILIP HOPKINS
THE federal Minister for the Environment and Water, Tanya Plibersek, has backed the Regional Forest Agreements (RFA), but they will be reformed...
Vic forestry: facts v fiction
COMMENT
By JOHN CAMERON
THE state government recently said it would minimise job impacts from the timber shortage and accelerate the Opal Maryvale mill's...
Legendary teacher retires
By MICHELLE SLATER
A LONG-STANDING Trafalgar school teacher is capping his whiteboard marker for the last time after half a century in the game.
John Duck...
Opal worker help
By MICHELLE SLATER
THE Victorian government is establishing a new Worker Support Service in the Latrobe Valley to help Opal Australian Paper employees at Maryvale...
A helping hand and 80 years of solidarity
By LIAM DURKIN
THERE aren’t many of these left anymore.
Maryvale Friendly Society, which operates out of the Opal Australia mill at Maryvale, celebrates...
Shing, Bath back
THE Victorian Electoral Commission has declared the results for the Legislative Council, with Eastern Victorian incumbents, Labor MP Harriet Shing and the Nationals' Melina...
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Farcical AusPost weight limit forces Gippsland Farmer reduction
Aidan Knight and Liam Durkin
THE world truly has gone mad.
In a move that defies reason and regional reality, Gippsland Farmer, the region's...
