RELATED LINKS

Letter to the Government
All that is Needed is Political Will

Finishing the Job
The Political Solution to the Otways

Poll Results
69% of Corangamite Electorate Oppose Clearfell Logging
(Read the Irving Saulwick & Associates Poll)

Candidate Backs Poll
ALP Candidate Michael Bjork-Billings Makes a Stand: "Forest Votes the Key" Geelong Advertiser 27th October 2001

ALP Branches Have
their Say
30 ALP Branches Vote to End Clearfell Logging of the Otways

Head of Forest Union at Loggerheads
with Community
Community Offers Union Jobs Solution - see Geelong Advertiser 29th October 2001

Legal Analysis
Ending Department of Natural Resources and Environment's Residual
Log Licences

 

RELATED WEBSITES

Australian Labor Party

CFMEU Forestry Division

Otway Ranges Environment Network

Geelong Community Forum

Plantation Alternative

Department of Natural Resources and Environment

Tourism in the Otways

ALP Conservation & Environment Policy 2000

CONTACT ALP ORIG

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Click on the above link or type the following e-mail address:

poulton@labyrinth.net.au

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How the ALP can End Clearfell Logging of the Otway Ranges
   
Clearfell logging involves the broad scale clearing of forest areas and has a dramatic impact on the landscape. According to the September 2001 Saulwick poll A Quantitative Study of Corangamite Voter Attitudes (commissioned by ALP Otway Ranges Interest Group), 69% of all electors in Corangamite oppose the clearfelling of native forests in the Otways.

The State ALP can shift the voting patterns of a significant proportion of swinging voters by ending clearfell logging in the Otways. This can be achieved under the terms of the Federal-State West Victoria Regional Forest Agreement and the Forest Act 1958.

THREE POLITICAL STEPS

1) The Victorian State Government commits to ending clearfell logging in the Otways as at 30 June 2002

2) The Victorian State Government:

    (a) immediately ceases the granting of Residual Log Licences; and

    (b) ends the annual renewal of Residual log allocations, which allow for the exploitation of the Otways for woodchips, as at 30 June 2002.

3) The Victorian State Government and the Federal Government assist with structural adjustment through employment creation programs in private plantation forestry and tourism industries in the Otway-Colac region.

Mt Sabine Falls - temporarily reprieved from logging through the actions of ALP Otway Ranges Interest Group and Community Groups

READ ABOUT ALP OTWAY RANGES INTEREST GROUP

Contacts for the Otway Ranges Interest Group
(formed statewide as a non-constituent unit of the ALP - 2000)
Nick Adams (Fitzroy Branch)
Carol Wilmink (Apollo Bay Branch)
Sandra Skene (Apollo Bay Branch)
Trevor Poulton (Central Branch): (03) 9481 5806
by email to poulton@labyrinth.net.au

"The ALP is in power -
we are not asking the Premier to lead the Party out of the wilderness - we are asking the Premier to save the wilderness."

LINKS TO RELATED ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN THE AGE

11 Nov 2001 Environment Given a Green Light by Voters

30 Oct 2001 Logging Pressure on Labor

28 Oct 2001 Pain in Lumber Region as MP Jumps the Gun

27 Apr 2001 Sparks Threaten to Ignite Victorias Forestry Tinderbox

21 Apr 2001 Dissent Grows in ALP Over Otways

14 Mar 2001 Internal Feud Hits ALP Over Otways

29 Jan 2001 Sabine Falls Wins Reprieve