20/08/2025
A couple of cheeky firewood bandits thought they’d pulled a sneaky job in Tarnagulla State Forest, chopping down ironbarks and loading up their white Nissan tipper like nobody’d notice.
Trouble is, Taskforce Ironbark were hot on their trail, and by the time the boys made it all the way over to Drouin in Gippsland – nearly 300 clicks away – the law was waiting.
Turns out they weren’t just after a few logs for the fireplace either, they’d hacked down a stack of ironbarks, the same trees that Swift Parrots rely on to survive.
The cops rolled in, seized the truck and a phone, and shut the whole op down. As Taskforce boss Brady Childs put it, you can’t just knock off half a forest and think you’ll slip under the radar.
