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Federal Government opens purse strings on $40m forest recovery fund

02 September 2020
Fire-impacted forest industries can apply to the Federal Government’s $40 million Forestry Recovery Development Fund from today. Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries Jonno Duniam said yesterday competitive grants of between $1 million and $5 million would strengthen industry
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Australian Bushfire and Climate Plan tabled in Federal Parliament

02 September 2020
Australia will face worsening bushfire and other disasters unless it redoubles its efforts to limit the impacts of climate change according to an Australian Bushfire and Climate Plan to be tabled in Federal Parliament today. Source: Timberbiz The Independent Federal Member for Indi Dr
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Australian Senate labels research in Tas Uni paper ‘bodgy’

02 September 2020
The Institute of Foresters of Australia wants an apology from the University of Tasmania after a paper suggesting forestry harvesting activities make forests more bushfire prone was withdrawn by the journal Fire due to a number of errors. And in a further major embarrassment for the a
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COVID mitigation in Green Triangle proves it can work

31 August 2020
Strict coronavirus mitigation plans have allowed the Green Triangle forest and timber sector to maintain business flow which the industry believes provides a convincing case for a long-term border travel exemption. Source: Timberbiz With the Federal Government urging State Governments
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Kangaroo Island proves plantations can act to suppress fire

31 August 2020
Independent research from Airborne Research Australia after the 2019-20 bushfires on Kangaroo Island has confirmed that plantations can act as a fire suppressant. Source: Timberbiz “From what I can see on our aerial imagery and Lidar it does not seem to support the opinion that the pl
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Greens based forestry attacks on faulty scientific paper

31 August 2020
The Greens should be embarrassed by the retraction of the scientific paper that formed the basis of the party’s political attacks on Tasmania’s forest industry, according to Tasmania’s Resources Minister Guy Barnett. Source: Timberiz Mr Barnett said that during the greatest health and
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Academic anti-harvesting paper withdrawn due to errors

31 August 2020
A scientific paper that was the basis of an opinion piece by Professor James Kirkpatrick claiming that timber harvesting makes forests more flammable has been withdrawn from academic publication because it contains errors. Source: Philip Hopkins The peer-reviewed paper, written by Pro
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Forestry trainer nominated for coveted trainer of the year award

28 August 2020
TAFE Gippsland teacher, Kevin Nunn, has been shortlisted as a finalist for a 2020 Victorian Training Award. The Timber Training Unit Manager from TAFE Gippsland’s Forestec campus in East Gippsland, was nominated in the Teacher/Trainer of the Year category in this year’s coveted TAFE a
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NSW accepts all 76 recommendations of bushfire inquiry

26 August 2020
The NSW Government has agreed that the summer’s devastating bushfires in the south east of the state were caused by mix of climate change, drought and high fuel loads on the ground. In doing so, it has accepted all 76 recommendations of the independent NSW Bushfire Inquiry, whic
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New firefighting helicopter donated to NSW Rural Fire

24 August 2020
Communities across NSW are set to benefit from a state-of-the-art firefighting helicopter, donated by the Goodman Foundation in a first of its kind partnership with the NSW Rural Fire. This comes as part of the Goodman Foundation’s $6.5 million pledge earlier this year to support Aust
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