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Training for first responders on hold due to litigation at Forestec

24 June 2022
Victoria’s emergency services personnel are unable to complete vital first responder training after activists placed an injunction of TAFE Gippsland’s Forestec Rowboat training coupe. In state parliament this week The Nationals’ Member for Eastern Victoria Region, Melina Bath demanded
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Opinion: Dr Michelle Freeman – Tassie’s negative carbon emissions is harvesting and regrowing forests

24 June 2022
Tasmania’s status as the only Australian state to achieve negative carbon emissions in 2020 is an amazing achievement and one that should be celebrated. However, there is more to the story than what you might have read in recent news. Tasmania’s carbon-negative position has been promo
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Friday analysis: Litigation won’t help put out fires

24 June 2022
  There is possibly only one thing more dangerous than a bushfire breaking out and there being no fire brigade around to fight it. And that is probably an ill-equipped, poorly trained fire brigade being sent in to battle the blaze. Which begs the question as to why “third party l
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Have your say on adhesives and engineered wood products

22 June 2022
The Forest Product Innovations (FPI) team at the Salisbury Research Facility, a part of the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF) is conducting a review of the current knowledge and attitudes towards adhesives used and the products that are produced throughout the A
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ForestTECH back on in NZ and Australia

22 June 2022
ForestTECH is back after a Covid-enforced delay, with events scheduled for both Australia and New Zealand. The conferences will be held in Rotorua on 15-16 November with the Melbourne event on 22-23 November. Source: Timberbiz For 15 years, it’s been the one forest technology event ev
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Dieback is a natural response for healthy trees

22 June 2022
New South Wales Natural Resources Commission and Australian National University recently held a talkfest on so-called dieback. Unfortunately, the scientists mostly don’t understand that dieback is a natural response of healthy trees to acute stress. For example, healthy eucalypts may
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Timberlink welcomes new Deputy Premier to Tarpeena

22 June 2022
Timberlink’s EGM Sales, Marketing & Corporate Affairs, David Oliver welcomed newly appointed SA Deputy Premier Susan Close MP and The Hon Clare Scriven MLC, Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development to Timberlink’s Tarpeena mill to see recent progress of the constru
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The average Australian house frame ‘grown’ in about 2.5 minutes

22 June 2022
How long it would take for Australia’s plantation estate to grow the amount of structural timber needed to build the average house frame? It’s important to note this question is particularly timely, because FWPA has just released a report on timber usage in residential construction. S
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CFMEU backs new laws protecting forestry workers

22 June 2022
CFMEU, the union representing timber and forestry workers, supports new laws introduced by the Victorian Government to protect them from dangerous and ill-targeted workplace invasions. Source: Timberbiz The union has been campaigning for stronger deterrents to dangerous protest activi
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Victorian Government erects more hurdles for timber workers

22 June 2022
Victorian Government bureaucrats have thrown yet another hurdle in front of timber workers trying to salvage up to 500,000 tonnes of windblown fallen timber from the Wombat Forest, following the June 2021 storms. Source: Weekly Times Harvest and haulage contractor Jim Greenwood, who i
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