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Tree change campaign to sway electors

11 April 2022
Coinciding with the start of the federal election campaign, Australia’s forest industries have launched “Australia, we need a tree change”, a major TV and digital advertising campaign promoting our need to plant one billion new forestry production trees to build future homes, provide
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OFO continuous drying kiln operational after $16M investment

08 April 2022
OneFortyOne Jubilee Sawmill’s second continuous drying kiln is now online, completing a $16 million capital investment project at the site in Mount Gambier. Source: Timberbiz Jubilee Sawmill General Manager Paul Hartung said the kilns are working well and have increased site capacity
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Opinion: Kelly Wilton – 34,000 Falsehoods do not discover a truth

08 April 2022
The adage goes “don’t believe everything you hear” but in the case of the Greens latest stunt maybe that should be “don’t believe every signature that you read”. Petitions are a great tool to measure the feelings of a community and done properly they can help guide or influence decisi
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Friday analysis: Dan Andrews has been Gaslighting Victorian timber workers

08 April 2022
Hats off to the Wellington Shire Council for uncovering that Premier Daniel Andrews went to the last election and did not disclose the state government’s intention to shut down the native timber industry. The FOI documents, finally released to the Council after years of requests and a
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Andrews signed off demise of native forestry but waited a year to tell the industry

06 April 2022
Victoria’s Premier Dan Andrews has been accused of treating the forestry sector “like fools”. The comment by Timber Towns Victoria chair Karen Stephens follows a report in the Weekly Times that Mr Andrews signed off on phasing out native forest timber harvesting in Victoria in A
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Federal Government approves increase in forestry levies

06 April 2022
A proposal to increase forestry sector levies for research, development and extension, and biosecurity, has been approved by the Federal Government. A massive 90% of all voters responded positively to a call by the Australian Forest Products Association last year to show their support
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Poor building results in January but better in February

04 April 2022
Building approvals increased by 43.5% in February following a poor result in January according to Australian Bureau of Statistics’ monthly building approvals data for detached houses and multi-units covering all states and territories. Source: Timberbiz “As expected, detached bu
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Merrett Logging moving from B-Doubles to A-Doubles

04 April 2022
Penola forestry company Merrett Logging will continue to replace their B-Double freight trucks with A-Double trucks to limit the strain on local roads. Source: The Border Watch The A-Double trucks allow for almost 36m of freight length – almost 10m more than a B-Double – with both tra
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Hyne develops Beam 15 to overcome building material shortages

04 April 2022
With Australia’s demand for structural pine framing and engineered wood products at an all-time high, pressure has been on the timber industry to ramp up production to make products more available to the market. Sources: Timberbiz, BDAA But what happens when the log resources required
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Australian timber importers signal problems with trade sanctions on Russia

04 April 2022
The Australian Timber Importers Federation has written to Trade Minister Dan Tehan regarding the potential negative impacts on the Australian timber supply chain, and on building and construction activity if trade sanctions are imposed on Russia. At their request ATIF has also provide
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