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Climate policy ‘a business case to destroy our forests’

Climate policy ‘a business case to destroy our forests’ Australia can now say it has a climate change policy again – of sorts – after the Senate voted through the Direct Action package following the agreement between the Abbott government and the Palmer United Party led by aspiring co
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Forestry staff seen as ‘bottom of the barrel’

Safety failures in the forestry sector extend all the way up the supply chain and a significant portion of the industry views its frontline staff as a “bottom of the barrel workforce”. Source: Stuff.co.nz. Those are among the shock findings contained in the 141-page Indepe
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