Australian Sustainable Hardwoods’ Heyfield Mill will close in August, ahead of its original September closure date, as the owners blamed VicForests for falling short in its promised log supply. The ...
Voters across ALP-held marginal seats of Monbulk, Mordialloc and Narre Warren South received more than 150,000 automated phone calls on Monday night urging them to contact their local members to ...
WORKERS have made a final bid to the state government to save their jobs ahead of the closure of the country’s biggest timber mill in September. Timber stacker Brendan Mason, 30, was among the ...
An Australian Sustainable Hardwoods board meeting tonight is scheduled to push the button on a phased closure of the Heyfield Mill starting in ­August unless agreement can be reached with the ...
The mill, opened in 1977, employs about 50 people, including roughly 30 supported workers with disabilities, but its future is in crisis after Bedford’s new buyer signalled it does not want the mill ...