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Equinox Evolution attracts Tas Timber

Tasmanian Timber will be at Melbourne’s Equinox Evolution on Thursday, 30 June 2022 where you can meet industry expert Greg Nolan and see the award winning stall. Source: Timberbiz Equinox Evolution is for leading architectural, design, and specification industry professionals to expl
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Sydney prime site to house world’s tallest hybrid tower

Developer Milligan Group has unlocked one of Sydney CBD’s few remaining prime sites, with plans in the works to build the world’s tallest hybrid timber tower. Source: The Urban Developer The local developer, led by James Milligan, has received its first tentative tick of approval from
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Forestry Corp in trouble again with EPA and fined $15,000

Forestry Corporation of NSW has been fined $15,000 for allegedly failing to comply with a post bushfire condition imposed to protect critical habitat in a forest near Batemans Bay. Source: Timberbiz The Site-Specific Operating Condition required FCNSW to permanently retain all hollow
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Training for first responders on hold due to litigation at Forestec

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

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

  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

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

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

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

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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