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Ultimate Renewables campaign reaches millions of consumers

17 August 2022
Earlier this year, FWPA unveiled the latest consumer marketing initiative for The Ultimate Renewable. The campaign marked a new brand ambassador, Adam Dovile. The aim of the campaign, which launched on 19 June and ran for two months, was to reinforce public awareness of wood’s sustain
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Industry liaison officer to build capacity and compliance in Queensland

15 August 2022
The Queensland timber industry has welcomed the appointment of new Industry Liaison Officer Alex Riddington as part of a project to build greater capacity in compliance and improved management systems for operators in the state based native hardwood and cypress sectors. Source: Timber
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Jim Wilson appointed temporary vice president of Forestry Australia

15 August 2022
Jim Wilson has been appointed as Vice President of Forestry Australia, covering the position made vacant by Dr Michelle Freeman while she takes maternity leave. Source: Timberbiz “I am delighted to provide service to Forestry Australia as Vice President. The future is bright for our p
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Victorian Supreme Court allows restricted timber harvesting in central highlands

15 August 2022
Victorian Supreme Court judge Melinda Richards has partially wound back court orders which prevented timber harvesting in the state’s central highlands. Source: Timberbiz Court injunctions granted in December prevent VicForests harvesting timber in the Central Highlands, Tambo or Gipp
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Woolworths replaces plastic with locally made paper bags

12 August 2022
Woolworths decision to phase out its 15-cent reusable plastic shopping bags across its South Australian and Northern Territory stores from this week in favour of locally made paper bags so shoppers can directly support local wood fibre manufacturing jobs by using them to pack their gr
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Forestry must be a part of the carbon market

10 August 2022
Australian forest industries’ continued participation in the carbon market is essential if the Albanese Government is to achieve its ambitious emissions reduction targets, according to the Australian Forest Products Association. Source: Timberbiz Responding to concerns Independent Sen
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Plantation estate has lost the equivalent of a city the size of Geelong

10 August 2022
New Australian Forest Products Association analysis has revealed that Australia’s forestry plantation estate has shrunk by the equivalent of 76,000 timber house-frames as farmers and landowners pivot to other commodities which pay higher, short term, returns. Source: Timberbiz Over th
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Australian population growth demands more wood for housing

08 August 2022
Australia’s population growth to 2050 will result in the national population being between 33.62 million and 39.67 million people. The actual population depends mainly on the birth rate and the rate of net overseas migration, with other demographic factors largely certain, within narr
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Growth scholarships to an engineer, a forester, a scientist and a production worker

08 August 2022
Timber Queensland has announced the recipients of its Growth Scholarship Awards Program for 2022-23. Timber Queensland’s Strategic Relations Manager Clarissa Brandt said the inaugural program invited early and mid-career professionals and skilled workers to submit details of a propose
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Wood You Like to Know as an architect, engineer or specifier

05 August 2022
More than 100 architects, engineers, and specifiers will gather in Melbourne on 24 August for one of Australia’s largest timber industry events. Titled ‘Wood You Like to Know’, it aligns with the Ultimate Renewable theme promoting timber as “undeniably the most sustainable building ma
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