Exclusive: ‘Ready-to-be-activated’ roadmap adds pressure to Minns government to follow lead of other states in ending controversial practice
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The Perrottet government found native logging could be ended in New South Wales without costing the budget but opposition from the Nationals blocked the proposal.
A plan to end the controversial and loss-making practice of timber extraction from native forests was prepared by the environment department by October 2022.