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Ross Hampton takes his chair on the FOA Advisory Council

08 February 2021
Incoming Chair of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation’s forestry advisory council, Ross Hampton, says the world’s renewable timber and forestry sectors must be turbo-charged if we are to have any chance of achieving the global goal of ‘Carbon Neutral by 2050’. Source: Timberbiz M
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Gavin Matthew new CEO at Engineered Wood Products

08 February 2021
Engineered Wood Products Association of Australasia has appointed Gavin Matthew as its new Chief Executive Officer. Prior to this appointment, Mr Matthew was a Senior Policy Manager with the Australian Forest Products Association looking after the softwood manufacturing sector. Source
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Morrison government buys Indonesian paper ignores Australian made

08 February 2021
The manufacturing union representing pulp and paper workers has slammed the Morrison Government for abandoning local workers during the COVID-19 jobs crisis by buying Indonesian paper instead of photocopy paper manufactured locally by Australian Paper in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley. Sou
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Spark Operational is the new cutting-edge bushfire tool

05 February 2021
Australia will develop a nationally consistent bushfire modelling and prediction capability under an agreement announced yesterday between CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, and AFAC, the National Council for Fire and Emergency Services. Source: Timberbiz The partnership invo
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Bob Brown Foundation’s Great Forest Case fails 3-0

05 February 2021
Bob Brown has been told to accept the judgement of the Federal Court which this week dismissed his bid to halt native logging in Tasmania. The Federal Court on Wednesday ruled 3-0 against the Bob Brown Foundation’s argument that the state’s Regional Forest Agreement (RFA) contra
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FWCA moves to have Bob Brown Foundation prosecuted

03 February 2021
Forest & Wood Communities Australia has formally requested prosecutions of the Bob Brown Foundation by the work safety regulator WorkSafe Tasmania. Source: Timberbiz The requests, made under the Work Health and Safety Act 2012 (Tas), are for the reckless and dangerous actions enga
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$757m impact of Great Koala National Park on NSW economy

03 February 2021
Independent economic modelling of the impact of the so-called Great Koala National Park on the NSW North Coast has found it would lead to a $757 million-a-year hit to the NSW economy and cut almost 2000 jobs, according to the Australian Forest Products Association. AFPA CEO Mr Ross Ha
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Koala conservation could lead to more koala deaths

03 February 2021
Mooted NSW government moves to tighten koala conservation must be opposed as they will lead to destructive forest management and more koala deaths, a forestry expert has warned. Source: Philip Hopkins for Timberbiz The secretary of the South East Timber Association, Peter Rutherford,
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Samuel review of RFAs promotes two major changes

01 February 2021
Australians can have confidence that our sustainably managed native forestry operations provide all the environmental safeguards required by the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC), according to Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) Deputy CEO Vic
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Two former Forestry Corp staff awarded OAMS

01 February 2021
A tireless advocate for the south west slopes softwood plantation industry and the ecologist who discovered Australia’s largest known roost of Eastern Horseshoe Bats are the two former Forestry Corporation of NSW staff who have been awarded the Medal (OAM) in the General Division in t
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