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Chopperoos win fourth consecutive title

17 November 2023
Komatsu Forest congratulates the 2023 Stihl Timbersports Team World Champions…the Chopperoos. Source: Timberbiz The Australian Team has claimed an unprecedented fourth consecutive win at the World Championship in Stuttgart Germany on 3 November in front of a sold out crowd of 6,500. T
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Friday analysis: the rush to solve the housing crisis

17 November 2023
State Governments across the nation are planning to solve the housing crisis by, obviously, building low cost affordable housing. And lots of them. In Queensland $23 million has been poured into the Immediate Housing Response for Families plan to provide emergency accommodation for fa
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Modular construction solution for NSW housing shortage

15 November 2023
The NSW State Government hopes to build 377,000 new houses to address the burgeoning housing crisis NSW is currently facing NSW Planning and Public Spaces Minister Paul Scully believes modular construction is definitely a significant part of the solution. Source: Timberbiz With more t
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Sawn softwood imports down 36.5%

15 November 2023
Over the year-ended August 2023, sawn softwood imports totalled 607,417 m3, down 36.5% on the year prior. Imports are beginning to stabilise and look likely to settle somewhere close to 42,000 m3 on average per month, resulting in annual imports falling to an expected 0.5 million m3 b
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Salvage logging to be classified as potentially threatening

15 November 2023
Salvage logging of burnt forests is set to be classified as a “potentially threatening process” under Victoria’s flora and fauna regulations, following a recommendation from the state’s Scientific Advisory Committee. Source: Weekly Times The move further restricts forest managers’ acc
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Freedom of information provided no real information on native forestry

15 November 2023
Page after page of blacked-out documents and no real information, that was the result of Wellington Shire Council’s attempts over almost four years to find out why state government decided to close the native forest industry. Source: Philip Hopkins The Gippsland Times The decisi
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Bushfires put global timber production at risk says ANU research

15 November 2023
Severe wildfires are putting global timber production at risk, new research from The Australian National University (ANU), the University of Sheffield and the University of Cambridge shows. Source: Timberbiz The research team analysed data from 2001 to 2021 and found 18.5 to 24.7 mill
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Victorian updated guidance a backflip on hardwood use

15 November 2023
The Victorian Government has suddenly back flipped on its directive to the Victorian building industry to cease designing and constructing homes with native hardwood timber. Source: Timberbiz In its previous communique to the HIA on 30 October, the Government “strongly recommended” bu
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Rising cash rates hit home and the outlook is bleak

13 November 2023
The rise in the cash rate is hitting the Sydney and Melbourne new home markets the hardest, according to the HIA’s Chief Economist Tim Reardon. Source: Timberbiz HIA has released its economic and industry Outlook report which includes updated forecasts for new home building and renova
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Almost 10 months to build a house in Australia

13 November 2023
Australia’s system of housing construction is in serious trouble, if the latest building activity data is anything to go by. In the June quarter of 2023, far from reducing as more houses were completed, the average time it takes to complete a house actually increased by mid-year it wa
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