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Rise in forestry sector trade and employment

13 November 2014
In 2013–14, the value of Australian wood product exports increased by 23.7 per cent to $2.5 billion, while the value of imports increased by 11.7 per cent to $4.6 billion, according to the latest issue of Australian forest and wood products statistics released today by ABARES. ABARES
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Transport Ministers agree to new roadworthiness measures

13 November 2014
The Transport and Infrastructure Council has agreed to a range of measures to improve heavy vehicle roadworthiness under the Heavy Vehicle National Law. Source: Timberbiz. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development Warren Truss said Ministers agreed
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Timber company eyes port facility

13 November 2014
Kangaroo Island Plantation Timbers recently announced the purchase of a parcel of land at Smith Bay on KI, considered suitable for the development of a bulk log export facility. Source: The Islander. They have also entered into a memorandum of understanding with other timber plantatio
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Latrobe leads way with wood policy

13 November 2014
A peak timber industry body has commended Latrobe City Council on its release of a unique draft Wood Encouragement Policy for community consultation. Source: Latrobe Valley Express. The policy is council’s vow to promote the use of wood as the preferred material in both the cons
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Forico builds Eucalypt plantation to move beyond woodchips

13 November 2014
The company that has inherited the bulk of Gunns timber plantations in Tasmania has signalled its intention to invest in more high-value wood products, beyond woodchips. Source: The ABC. Forico is a forest management company that owns 100,000 hectares of mostly eucalypt plantations. F
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Australian forestry in your pocket

11 November 2014
The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) this week released a new edition of one of the most popular Australian forestry publications. ABARES executive director Karen Schneider said ‘Australia’s forests at a glance 2014’ is a pocketbook compen
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Second Blue Mountains fire in two years demands new thinking

11 November 2014
Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) chief executive officer Ross Hampton has called on the Federal Government to trial the effectiveness of machinery removal of understory bush and competing trees in an attempt to find new solutions to reducing the intensity of bushfires. So
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Forestry Tasmania’s $43m loss nothing to do with ‘peace deal’, say experts

11 November 2014
Environmentalists and the forestry industry have rejected the Tasmanian government’s claim that a disastrous deficit posted by the state’s taxpayer-owned forest corporation was the result of a “peace deal” between loggers and green groups. Source: The Guardian. Forestry Tasmania, whic
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RBA extends steady streak for rates

11 November 2014
The Reserve Bank Board on Tuesday voted to extend the period of steady interest rates to 16 consecutive months, said the Housing Industry Association, the voice of Australia’s residential building industry. “With no hint of a short term interest rate rise in the RBA’s statement today,
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Forest Stewardship Council under fire from green groups

10 November 2014
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Australia is under fire from an unlikely quarter, with key environment groups calling for it to withdraw the Controlled Wood standard accreditation granted to Western Australia’s state logging agency, the Forest Products Commission (FPC). Source: T
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