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Sustainable forest management and products key to fighting climate change

22 March 2023
In its most recent report released this week the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has cited sustainable forest management along with sustainably produced forest products, as key solutions to fighting climate change, according to Australian Forest Products Association CEO Joel
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Drop-in day for drivers’ wellbeing

22 March 2023
Representatives from the softwood forestry and timber industry are again joining forces to host a drop-in day on 29 March in Tumut, New South Wales to work with the region’s forestry transport industry on wellbeing and load safety. Source: Timberbiz The day is a place for conversation
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An open letter to Chris Minns MP and Penny Sharpe MP

22 March 2023
On behalf of Forestry Australia we congratulate you on your initiative to improve the outlook for endangered koalas in NSW. However, we need to take a suite of actions to conserve and maintain healthy and sustainable populations and simply creating a National Park may not be the most
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New homes on a boom and bust cycle

20 March 2023
Sales of new homes in the three months to February were 46.8% lower than at the same time the previous year, according to the HIA New Home Sales report, a monthly survey of the largest volume home builders in the five largest states, and a leading indicator of future detached home con
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Australia shares forest know-how with Japanese counterparts

20 March 2023
Private Forests Tasmania’s Agriforester Molly Marshall has joined a small group of Australian foresters and bushland managers visiting Japan to share forestry experiences and techniques with their counterparts. Source: Timberbiz Australian academic, Professor Michael Seigel, int
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Friday analysis: Thank you Penny Wells

17 March 2023
Penny Wells’ decision to step down from the role of Chief Executive Officer of Private Forests Tasmania is a huge blow to that State’s timber industry. It’s possible that no one has worked harder for the timber industry in Tasmania over the past five years than Penny. After those five
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Call out “Hey frog” and they answer

15 March 2023
Forestry Corporation ecologists have spent a week walking through Bondo State Forest near Tumut calling ‘hey frog’ the most effective survey technique for detecting the critically endangered Northern Corroboree Frog. Source: Timberbiz Amazingly, yelling ‘Hey Frog’ elicits
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Inaugural Carbon & Farming Conference

15 March 2023
Sustainable forestry has an important role to play in the future of WA agriculture, with both sectors coming together at last week’s inaugural Carbon & Farming Conference in Perth. Source: Timberbiz The conference featured a fantastic line-up of speakers and the official launch of
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Conflict timber comes into Australia with false origin labels

15 March 2023
The timber industry suspects “conflict timber” harvested in Russia and Belarus is being sold in Australia under false country-of-origin labels. Source: The Australian Australia has not banned timber imports from Russia and ­Belarus, but the Australian Border Force has imposed a 35% ta
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Vic taxpayers fork out $38m after lawfare on forestry

15 March 2023
Victorian taxpayers will fork out more than $38 million after state-owned logging agency VicForests was forced to compensate customers and contractors it could not supply with timber. Source: The Age VicForests chief executive Monique Dawson told a Supreme Court hearing on Friday it h
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