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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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Victoria passes law to better protect forestry workers from protesters

08 August 2022
Strengthened laws to protect forestry workers from illegal protest activity have passed the Victorian Parliament. Source: Timberbiz The Sustainable Forests Timber Amendment (Timber Harvesting Safety Zones) Bill 2022, brings stronger penalties to deter dangerous protest activities that
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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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Wake up Australia there’s a serious timber supply problem, and Victoria imports too much

05 August 2022
Australia’s housing construction sector faces a serious timber supply gap by mid-century if the nation doesn’t move quickly to implement the billion new production trees plan, a new Forest and Wood Products Australia report has found. Source: Timberbiz The final report released this w
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Opinion: Robert Onfray – What does a forester do?

05 August 2022
Over the years, when meeting people at dinner parties, bar-b-ques, or other social events, I was often asked what I did for a living. After I replied I was a forester, most people would then ask, “what does a forester do”? This is not surprising as forestry is a relatively new profess
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Friday Analysis: NSW parliamentary debate is not a signature event

05 August 2022
The headline online on Thursday screamed “Parliament compelled by 20,000 petitioners to debate future of native forest logging”. Another headline read “20,000 people force parliament to debate ending native forest logging”. Well, some of that was sort of accurate. First th
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AKD has a new face on the internet

03 August 2022
AKD’s website has recently had a “facelift” and it’s more than skin deep. Christine Briggs, AKD’s National Marketing Manager, says that both the structure and content of the company website has been overhauled to make it easier to find relevant content for all visitors, as well as pro
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Australian imports of sawn softwood on the increase

03 August 2022
Australia’s imports of sawn softwood rose an astounding 62.2% year-ended May 2022, lifting to 895,314 m3 for the full year. While weighted average import prices may have peaked in January, there is very real prospect that annualised imports will continue to grow in coming months. Sour
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Findings after research into WA forestry

03 August 2022
The forest industry in Australia contributes to jobs and economic activity in multiple regional communities. This contribution results from the growing, management and harvesting of plantations and native forests, and processing of harvested wood. Source: Timberbiz In 2017, Forest and
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