Selected Media
Statements
2025
21 May 2025 Bega Valley Shire Council. Mayor's motion to allow private
native forestry in RU2 zones.
Speech at Public Forum,
photo of one
of Mayor’s 2024 election corflutes displayed on the fence of South Coast
Timbers sawmill at Eden.
28 March 2025 Letter to the editor, Bega District News
Native forest logging – fact check
BDN article
27 January 2025
Submission on DA (10-2024-276-1) SEFE DP1066187 Proposal to make the
existing temporary log storage yard a permanent land use at part Lot 17
2024
15 December 2024
Forestry
Corporation reports worst loss ever on native forest logging
15 May 2024
David and Goliath Court Victory NSW Supreme Court of Appeal allows
SEFR's Appeal against Forestry Corporation NSW SEFR statement
10 April 2024
Open
letter to NSW Premier Chris Minns to end logging in public native
forests and koala habitat.Published
in Sydney Morning Herald.
24 March 2024 March in
March Address to Bega Rally
19 February 2024
Bega Valley
Mayor’s plan to increase native forest logging -
Address to
council - How Councillors voted -
Council
minutes
10 January 2024
Federal Court ruling fails NSW’s threatened and endangered species
(NCC statement)
2023
23 May 2023
SERCA
welcomes Victorian budget decision to hasten end to native forest
logging.
23 March 2023
“New research finds small mammals thriving and increasing in Eden State
forests”
13 March 2023
Time to end native
forest logging: voters don’t want it and don’t need it
9 March 2023 Interview on Ernst and Young report:
“Economic Contribution Study of the NSW hardwood timber industry”ABC
SE:
interview
EY Report
7 March 2023
What could $1.74M a
year do for the Bega Shire community? [Nature Conservation Council]
26 February 2023
High time to vote
for stronger action climate and the environment [South East Climate
Alliance]
2022
13 December 2022 Total logging up
170% and woodchip logging up 270%. Talking points
30 November 2022 Eden
chipmill owner reports a $60,453,885 profit
21 October 2022 Big Bad Biomass
day. International Day of Action Photo
16 September 2022
NSW
Government backs dangerous logging of native forests
8 September
2022
NSW biggest native forest logger loses
sustainability certification
1 September 2022
Federal Government
must reject burning native forest wood as “renewable” energy
29 August 2022
A "conservationist"
view of our forests?
28 March 2022
Free
Climate Action Now yard
signs and stickers give voice to Eden-Monaro locals
21 March 2022
Let's mark
International Day for Forests with an end to native forest logging
2021
30 November 2021
Forestry Corporation declares $20M loss on native forest logging
26 November 2021
Leaked Government
report signals an end to native forest logging
18 November 2021
More multi-million dollar
gifts from taxpayers to the logging industry Letter to the editor, BDN,
Merimbula News Weekly, Eden Magnet
20 October 2021
Harriett Swift address to
BVSC on Eden chipmill decision,
14 September 2021
Address to Public
Forum, Bega Valley Shire Council on
(10-2020-81-1) Timber Optimisation Hub
7 September 2021
Chipmill expansion approval must
be reconsidered
14 August 2021
Dan Andrews’ pledge to end logging threatened by rising Allied wood-chip
monopoly. Michael West Media
28 July
2021 "Chipmill’s
move closer to monopoly must be stopped" – conservationists
18 April
2021
Logging Eden: NSW south coast forestry dominated by potentially illegal
wood-chipping
by Harriet Swift | Michael West Media
12 April
2021
Almost 100% woodchips from post bushfire logging of Eden Region native
forests
16 March
2021
Logging must not
resume on the South Coast
19
February 2021
Legal Action
Launched Against Council Consent for Eden Woodchip Mill Proposal
Following Bushfires (SEFR)
2
February 2021
Logging
industry exemption from Australia’s main environment protection law must
end
14
January 2021
Taxpayer gifts to
the woodchipping industry (Letter to the Editor, Eden Magnet)
2020
3 November 2020
Bushfire grants to the
Eden chipmill “a tragic waste of money and opportunity.”
5 September 2020
Call for halt to
Yambulla logging
29July 2020
Call for
transparency on chipmill DAs
29 June
2020 PM's visit to the Eden
chipmill Letter to the Editor, AFR
26 June
2020 Woodchipping.
Letter to the editor re Scott Morrison visit to chipmill
21 June
2020 Forestry jobs -
response to AFPA (Tumut)
12 June
2020
Conservationists
urge stronger federal protection for forest wildlife
13 May
2020 SERCA submission
to Bega Valley Shire Council on chipmill DA application.
6 May
2020
SERCA says to ‘no’
chipmill expansion
10 March
2020
Logging
in burnt South Coast forests starts this week - worse than “normal”
logging
15
February 2020 50 years of
woodchipping have made the region's forests more fire prone
11
February 2020
With 80 per cent of
South Coast forests burnt- now is the time to end native forest logging
21
January 2020
Business as usual is not an option - logging
must not resume before the fires are even out
2019
10 December 2019
Forest groups
call for halt to logging in drought and bushfire crisis
29 November 2019
Logging while NSW burns (with
David Shoebridge MP)
28 November 2019
Eviction Notice handed to Eden chipmill owners on 50th Anniversary of
woodchipping
18 November 2019
Questions for chipmill to
answer
13 November 2019
Woodchipping is
South Coast’s Adani: 50 year scorecard launched
11 October 2019
Record new low price for woodchip
logs revealed in Parliament this week
26 September 2019
“Right to Farm Bill”
aims to criminalise woodchip protests
22 August 2019
Senate
Committee warned, new logging laws may mean worse outcomes for forest
wildlife
9 May 2019 Open letter to all Eden-Monaro candidates
Poll flyer -
Forest and Wood
Products Aust. Community perceptions of Australia's forest, wood and paper
industries. August 2018. Draft.
1 May 2019
Labor forest
policy more threat than promise
15 April 2019
Voters warned to expect a barrage of
fake news from the logging industry in Eden-Monaro election campaign
12 April 2019
Marginal seat polling shows environment a key issue for federal election
22 February 2019
New report
details loss of social license for native forest woodchip industry
18 February 2019 Make up your
mind, Norm!
18 January 2019
Lack of Commonwealth accountability means forests destined to go the
same way as rivers
9
January 2019
New
Eden Wood Supply Agreements “fudging” the truth
