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SA state budget delivers for forestry

06 September 2018
The Australian Forest Products Association SA Branch (AFPA SA) has welcomed the forest industries measures announced in the South Australian State Budget. Source: Timberbiz “It’s great to see that the SA Government has heeded the advice of AFPA SA provided during the state election ca
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Jarrah salvage begins in WA state forest

04 September 2018
The Forest Products Commission WA (FPC) has begun salvage operations in coupes damaged by the 2016 Yarloop fire. Source: Timberbiz Forester Jane Charles said that the fire burnt through over 50,000 hectares of state forest, including several recently harvested native forest coupes. “W
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Road upgrades for Southern NSW welcomed

04 September 2018
The push by the Softwood Working Group (SWG), as well as the Snowy Valleys, Greater Hume and Cootamundra-Gundagai Councils, for road upgrades in the key forestry hub that is the South-West Slopes region will ensure appropriate future transport links for forest industries. Source: Timb
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Forestry finally looking up in Tasmania report reveals

04 September 2018
The Tasmanian forest industry is on an even keel after several challenging years, with a new report showing employment and spending have stabilised after a period of decline, and are growing in some parts of the industry. Source: Timberbiz According to the report ‘Socio-economic impac
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Record prices for Australian hardwood chip exports

04 September 2018
June 2018 will be remembered, in the Australian wood resources trade at least, as the month that the average price reached a new record and topped AUDFob200/bdmt for the first time since it crept there for one month only, in March 2010. Source: IndustryEdge for Timberbiz The new recor
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Timberlink $100m investment in regional manufacturing Jobs

04 September 2018
Timberlink has approved a $100 million upgrade program to its Australian sawmills. This generational investment will see the total processing capacity of the Australasian sawmilling company increase by more than 15%. Source: Timberbiz The investment will secure more than 1350 direct a
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Lithgow push to abolish rate exemption for forestry

30 August 2018
Lithgow City Council is supporting a push from Local Government NSW to abolish the rate exemption from Forestry land. Source: Lithgow Mercury Lithgow council has estimated that the value of foregone rates on Forestry lands in the Lithgow LGA is $414,000 per annum. “A rate exemption cu
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Melbourne Uni to close forestry rural campus

30 August 2018
More than 100 years of history is effectively over according to a Creswick forestry graduate who fears the loss of the University of Melbourne’s rural campus. Source: The Courier The university has released plans to relocate much of the forestry school to its Parkville campus due a de
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OneFortyOne replants 5.5 million trees

30 August 2018
Imagine planting by hand more than 5.5 million trees. That’s exactly what the team at OneFortyOne (OFO) has just done with the replanting season finishing last week across its Green Triangle forests. Source: Timberbiz For one man, OFO’s Terry Higgins, this season marked an important m
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Stronger measures put stink bug under the biosecurity microscope

30 August 2018
Following our exclusive story in Timberbiz on 21 August that alerted to the potential danger and costs of the stink bug to our timber industry the government has implemented stronger offshore biosecurity measures for the upcoming brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB) season, to manage ris
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