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KIPT completes initial bushfire replanting

26 August 2020
KIPT has completed its first replanting following the summer bushfires. The new crop of pine and blue gum, in a small 24-hectare compartment, was planned well before the devastating bushfires. Source: Timberbiz The site in the Bark Hut Road precinct was harvested a decade ago by a pre
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Komatsu offers fixed price servicing in Australia

26 August 2020
Komatsu Australia has just released Fixed Price Servicing agreements which allow customers to lock in their PM Service pricing for 12 months. These new agreements can be quoted on the spot by your local Komatsu representative with the simple input of your machine details into a user-f
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NSW accepts all 76 recommendations of bushfire inquiry

26 August 2020
The NSW Government has agreed that the summer’s devastating bushfires in the south east of the state were caused by mix of climate change, drought and high fuel loads on the ground. In doing so, it has accepted all 76 recommendations of the independent NSW Bushfire Inquiry, whic
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Linda Sewell resigns from OFO effective this week

26 August 2020
OneFortyOne Plantations’ CEO Linda Sewell has resigned effective almost immediately. She will finish on Friday. In a statement yesterday board chairman John S Gilleland said the news came with “regret but also great respect and support for Linda in her decision”. Source: Timberbiz “Af
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New firefighting helicopter donated to NSW Rural Fire

24 August 2020
Communities across NSW are set to benefit from a state-of-the-art firefighting helicopter, donated by the Goodman Foundation in a first of its kind partnership with the NSW Rural Fire. This comes as part of the Goodman Foundation’s $6.5 million pledge earlier this year to support Aust
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KIPT looks out for its koalas during harvesting

24 August 2020
Kangaroo Island Plantation Timbers has convened the first meeting of its koala stakeholder group, with participants agreeing to work collaboratively for the best outcome for koala welfare as KIPT prepares to harvest its estate. Source: Timberbiz KIPT Managing Director Keith Lamb said
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Forest & Wood Communities Australia – new association to fight for grassroots workers and communities

24 August 2020
  Not since the Tasmanian ‘forest wars’ have timber workers and their communities felt more besieged by malicious and carefully co-ordinated attacks on forestry and their jobs. Source: Justin Law Corporate activist organisations have ramped up their efforts to close down the indu
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AFPA says Bob Brown Foundation launching “lawfare”

24 August 2020
The Bob Brown Foundation’s legal action against Tasmania’s sustainable forest industries has been labelled as “just the latest callous attack on forestry workers from the extremist activist group” threatening vital regional jobs in an essential industry at a time when Aust
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VicForests to lodge appeal over new Central Highlands ruling

24 August 2020
VicForests will move quickly to lodge an appeal now the Federal Court has finalised its Orders relating to the Friends of Leadbeater’s Possum case. Strict conditions to stop logging of threatened species habitat in Victoria’s Central Highlands were issued by the Federal Court on Frida
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Buy Aussie timber and help a carpenter

21 August 2020
CoViD-19 pandemic restrictions are putting immense pressure on Aussie jobs, businesses and livelihoods. This is especially poignant now with the second wave of contagion and associated lockdown in Victoria. Source: Timberbiz In response, Australia’s softwood timber processing in
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