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Vic timber transition plan labelled a sham – not one hardwood tree planted

11 September 2020
The Victorian Government’s native timber transition plan has been labelled a sham after Labor walked away from establishing hardwood plantations. During State Parliament this week the Nationals Member for Eastern Victoria Region, Melina Bath pushed Minister for Agriculture, Jaclyn Sym
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Opinion: Jack Bowen – maybe COVID will bring common sense to native forestry

11 September 2020
Resilience is about ‘rebounding’, ‘springing back’ from adversity etc. It is a word that should be on everyone’s mind at the moment. COVID-19, and our resilience to overcome the Pandemic of the Ages must be first and foremost – no argument about that. At the same time our business, an
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2020 Tree Report – a post bushfire focus

09 September 2020
Planet Ark has released its 2020 Tree Report in the wake of relentless drought, a brutal and tragic summer of bushfires and the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, the Australian people and land are facing the task of recovering and rebuilding. Regeneration is perhaps more important for
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‘Bodgy’ paper clearly shows a conflict of interest

09 September 2020
The Australian Forest Products Association wants the University of Tasmania to investigate Dr Jennifer Sanger over her links to the Bob Brown Foundation. Dr Sanger was co-author of a peer reviewed scientific paper with Professor James Kirkpatrick and Suyanti Winoto-Lewin from the Univ
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Timber imperfections should be embraced

09 September 2020
If you’ve a timber yard, or driven past a timber truck, you’ve seen the rows upon rows of stacked timber, all cut to uniform lengths and widths. Have you ever wondered why we’re so fixated on this uniformity, rather than embracing the natural variation or ‘imperfections’ in timber tha
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Hyne Tumbarumba mill’s future in doubt

07 September 2020
The family-owned 138-year-old Hyne Timber company is continuing to call for government support to direct Australian saw logs destined for China to their mill in Tumbarumba. Source: Timberbiz Chief Executive Officer Jon Kleinschmidt said employees and the community were increasingly co
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Building approvals up 12% in July

07 September 2020
The HomeBuilder program has been very positive for the detached house sector, but the impact of this program is yet to be seen in ABS approval data. The lift in detached house approvals in July is more likely to reflect building application lodgement and processing returning to normal
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Richard Stanton Award first time to joint winners

07 September 2020
The sustainability managers from the construction team behind Sydney Metro Northwest, Australia’s largest public transport infrastructure project in recent years were presented with the 2019 Richard Stanton Memorial Prize for Excellence in Sustainable Forest Management. Source: Timber
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Fireball to roll out instant bushfire detection system

07 September 2020
  Inventors of a system which can detect bushfires in minutes will share in more than $5 million from the Morrison Government to roll out the technology here at home and overseas. Source: Timberbiz Fireball’s bushfire detection, mapping, and intelligence system uses satellite and
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AKD Caboolture mill reopens safer than before

04 September 2020
AKD’s Caboolture Sawmill will recommence operations on September 14 following a storage shed fire in June. The company says the reopening had been made possible due to the rebuilding of the fuel handling system which will make for a safer and more sustainable business in the long term
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