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Environmental groups sign anti RFA statement

19 May 2016
More than 30 environmental groups have signed a statement demanding that agreements allowing the logging of Australian native forests not be renewed. Source: The Guardian Australia’s 10 regional forestry agreements (RFAs) were signed between 1997 and 2001, each running for 20 years, w
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Bob Brown avoids prosecution

19 May 2016
Environmentalist and former Greens leader Bob Brown will not face prosecution over his arrest at an anti-logging protest in Tasmania’s north-west. Source: ABC News Mr Brown was arrested along with three protesters when they walked into the Lapoinya Forest exclusion zone in Janua
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Forest industries say include Greens in Leaders Debate

19 May 2016
A leading industry group representing the forestry and forest products industries agrees that the Australian Greens should be included in the election ‘Leaders Debates’. Source: Timberbiz Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) Mr Ross Hampton said
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Going up!

12 May 2016
Over the past few years, wood has emerged as an unlikely yet desirable material for the design of future skyscrapers. This is what London’s first tall timber structure could look like, wrote Jamie Condliffe, contributing Editor at Gizmodo [Engineering & Technology]. Source: Timber
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Education for sustainable timber mills

12 May 2016
Education is key to ensuring timber resources last the distance, a sustainable timber mill operator says. Source: ABC News Annabel Kater operates an Australian Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)-certified sustainable milling operation at Monkerai, north of Newcastle, with her husband Ja
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Re-imagining Australia’s forestry future

12 May 2016
Sustainable, hi-tech and worth tens of millions of extra dollars each year to the Tasmanian economy – that’s the vision for forestry from the man leading UTAS’s new Centre for Forest Value, Jim Reid. Source: The Mercury Professor Reid’s industry and conservationist backed centre is ta
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David Chandler Keynote for “Doing Timber Business in Queensland”

12 May 2016
Housing industry expert David Chandler OAM will make the Keynote Address “Shaking the Tree – Challenging our Conventional Thinking” at the Doing Timber Business in Queensland conference on 9 June 2016. Source: Timberbiz David has led major construction projects such
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Innovation through partnerships

12 May 2016
The commercialisation of the Low Odour Timberlink Green LOSP outdoor product will be presented as a case study example of successful innovation in the timber products market in Australia, at the upcoming Wood Innovations conference to be held in late May/June in Melbourne and Rotorua.
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Tree changes in Queensland

05 May 2016
The Queensland Parliamentary Committee assessing the Palaszczuk Government’s proposed changes to tree clearing laws are about to start sifting through hundreds of submissions. Source: ABC Rural With submissions now closed for the inquiry into Labor’s proposed changes to ve
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Thor’s timber brickworks

05 May 2016
Surrounded by crumbling brickworks timber recycler Thor Diesendorf has set a fire of innovation under decades of uncertainty, to create a flourishing business. Source: The Canberra Times At the old Yarralumla brickworks, which once turned out Canberra’s classic red brick, he is
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