The Stump Truck is again cruising around the marginal seats of Melbourne, trying to draw attention to the continued logging of old growth and water catchment forests of Victoria.

Thanks to some dodgy person stealing a camera from the truck on Brunswick St (thanks alot - steal from poor grassroots organisations ...) there are no photos as yet but hopefully will be soon.....stay tuned...

See Stump Truck 2002 and Stump Truck 1998 for past stump truck info....

Brack's Forest Policy a wasted opportunity

Despite sounding pretty good for East Gippsland (though terrible for the Central Highlands) a closer look at the detail of the Labor's forest policy announcement reveals all is not as it seems.

A breakdown of the policy, based on very bad maps provided by the Labor party, is as follows:

• Goolengook protected! (YAY!!!)
• Some of Goongerah and Yalmy protected - but not the areas we have been blockading this summer (see Goongerah blockades
• Big tree coupe on Centre Rd not protected (see Bonang River blockades)
• Only one coupe at Dingo Creek protected - and most of what is protected is a clearfell
• Martins Creek not protected - despite being part of a "corridor" between the Snowy River National PArk and Martin's Creek Flora and Fauna reserve
• Only part of Yalmy protected - not all of the tall forest is included

Much of the so-called 45000 hectares that are protectec under the new policy was not up for logging - because either it couldnt be logged (too steep etc) or was already logged. There was only about 1200ha outside of Goolengook included. So no wonder the logging industry was happy with the announcement.