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The Maryvale paper mill is the latest in a long line of employers in the Latrobe Valley to close or downsize. Photograph: Chris Taylor Chris Taylor, a forestry researcher at the Australian National University, says plantation timber “can replace VicForests shortfalls multiple times over”. The impact on jobs from the potential closure of the mill would not be restricted to Maryvale. According to the Victorian auditor general’s office, downstream wood industries “could not operate financially without [VicForests] pulp log sales”.

Suitable for high volume printing, faxing and copying, the 500 sheets of 3R91854 A4 Premier Paper give exceptional reliability when used in high-speed laser and colour inkjet printers as well as copier machines. When carrots are dangled and nothing’s done, people are waiting for the government to end uncertainty before putting trees in the ground,” McEvoy says. Opal says the court rulings have left the M5 without the wood pulp needed to produce paper. But critics of the company say that does not tell the full picture, which is that the market for copy paper has been in decline.Plantation farmers say the state undercuts plantations by handing VicForests and customers like Opal a free primary resource – 1.8m hectares (4.5m acres) of native forest.

Sarah Rees, a conservationist who served on the government’s forest industry taskforce and the forest stewardship council, says it could lead to “a house of cards collapse”.

Plantation blue gum grown in western Victoria is bought by Nippon Paper Group – the owner of Opal – and exported. Victoria produces on average around 2.5m cubic metres of hardwood plantation pulplog per annum,” he says. “Most is exported.” This versatile office paper can be used for printing and copying but it is also suitable to be used in mail communications such as letters and notices. Opal says the M5 shutdown is due to a series of court rulings against its supplier VicForests, the state-owned logging enterprise. In a statement to shareholders on Tuesday, it said its decision to close was a “response to this sudden and unexpected suspension of supply”.