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Launch of Forest & Wood Products Support Group

09 April 2015
  Next week is the 2015 launch of the Forest and Wood Products Support Group at State Parliament in Victoria. Source: Timberbiz The Forest and Wood Products Support Group is an initiative to build relationships and understanding between members of the Victorian Parliament and the
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Carter Holt Harvey sell off

09 April 2015
New Zealand’s Graeme Hart is reported to be planning to sell a chunk of Carter Holt Harvey. Source: Stuff NZ It is too early to say whether his plans to partially float his building firm Carter Holt Harvey could be a flier, according to a fund manager. Hart plans to sell up to 60% of
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Forestry Corp in wood chop

02 April 2015
One hundred flooded gum logs from Coffs Coast State Forests have made their way to Sydney’s Royal Easter Show for the popular wood chop event, thanks to a partnership between Forestry Corporation of NSW and the NSW Axemen’s Association. Source: The Coffs Coast Advocate Nor
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Study shows record carbon sequestered

02 April 2015
Plants are growing more quickly than people can cut them down, with fields and forests on the advance across the planet. Source: The Australian An Australian-led analysis of satellite data has found the amount of carbon sequestered in plants has risen by almost four billion tonnes sin
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Solomon Islands mission accomplished

02 April 2015
Delegates of the Solomon Islands Timber Export Mission to New Zealand and Australia described their experience as “invaluable”. Source: The Soloman Star The mission with eight timber exporters visited the two countries as part of a fact-finding mission and to meet with their importer-
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Tweed Shire calls for review of logging licences

02 April 2015
Tweed Shire Council has called on New South Wales State Environment Minister Rob Stokes to review logging licences in the Tweed Shire. Source: Northern Star The council is aware of at least three property owners with Native Forestry approvals in the northern corridor from Mt Warning.
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Is prefabrication the future of Australian construction?

02 April 2015
  The prefabrication industry is moving at incredible speeds and the broader take-up of prefabrication is set to transform how we think about the construction industry. Source: Timberbiz In the international arena this is already underway and gaining momentum. This month internat
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Solomon Islands sawn timber to Aust & NZ

26 March 2015
A group of Solomon Islands timber exporters and government officials visited Australia and New Zealand to promote exports of sawn timber. Sources: Scoop News, Timberbiz The export mission started in Brisbane on 22 – 25 March and moved to Auckland from 25-30 March 2015. The group met w
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Replanting go ahead for SA

26 March 2015
The South Australian Government has committed to replanting 150 hectares of a forest, in the state’s mid north, destroyed by bushfire. Source: ABC Rural Fire destroyed 450 hectares of the Bundaleer Forest, south of Jamestown, in January 2013 leaving an estimated area of 100 hect
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Government asks stakeholders views of forestry

26 March 2015
  Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture, Senator Richard Colbeck, is calling on stakeholders to put forward their views about the future of Australia’s forest products and forest industry. Source: Timberbiz Senator Colbeck launched the issues paper Meeting futur
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