Australasia's home for timber news and information

WoodSolutions Resilient Timber Homes competition winners

04 September 2023
Designs for a Mount Gambier house developed by Melbourne firm Archier and Michael Croft designed project at Hervey Bay have won this year’s WoodSolutions Resilient Timber Homes Design Competition. Source: Timberbiz The core objective of this innovative competition was to boost t
Continue Reading →

Sustainable Timber Tas contracts in place until 2027

04 September 2023
The Rockliff Liberal Government is sticking to its long-term plan for all Tasmanians by supporting the forestry industry which employs thousands of workers across the State. Source: Timberbiz Minister for Resources, Felix Ellis, said it was unfortunate that a continued constant in for
Continue Reading →

Pilot program to turn tree planting ideas into reality

01 September 2023
Landholders in northern Victoria can now access funding and the services of trusted tree-growing experts to help turn their tree planting ideas into an emissions-reducing reality. Source: Timberbiz The Victorian Carbon Farming Program is open to landholders in the North Central Catchm
Continue Reading →

Federal Labor needs to reverse the decline of forestry

01 September 2023
The Federal Opposition has called on the Albanese government to take greater control of the forest industry despite the Labor Party rejecting an internal push at its national conference to ban native forest harvesting. Source: Philip Hopkins, LaTrobe Valley Express The conference comm
Continue Reading →

Opinion: Michael Harrington – Andrews’ trail of transition crumbs

01 September 2023
With the mood in Victorian timber towns at what seems to be an all-time low due to the ongoing uncertainty surrounding native timber families and businesses caused by the Andrews state Labor government – Agriculture Minister Gayle Tierney has recently succumbed to common sense communi
Continue Reading →

Friday analysis: Short-sighted Labor is short changing left, right and centre

01 September 2023
The wheels seem to be falling off the Labor Party’s end of the native logging bus. Take Western Australia first. In September 2021 the then-premier Mark McGowan announced that native forest logging in Western Australia will end at the start of 2024. Foresters said they were blindsided
Continue Reading →

Fire at Hyne Maryborough

30 August 2023
Fire has damaged sheds at Hyne Timber’s Tuan Forest site near Maryborough in Queensland. It’s understood the fire started around 3:30pm on Tuesday in an industrial shed and spread to a second. Dozens of staff at the sawmill were evacuated. Source: Timberbiz A spokeswoman from th
Continue Reading →

Thousands lodge submissions with Clarence Valley – don’t ban native forestry

30 August 2023
Timber NSW and the Clarence Valley timber community lodged thousands of submissions rejecting the Council Biodiversity Advisory Committee’s proposal to ban native forestry in NSW State forests. Sources: Timberbiz, photo Emma Pritchard Clarence Valley Independent The industry gathered
Continue Reading →

WA sacrificing timber to sawmills to make firewood under ministerial order

30 August 2023
The WA Government’s new forestry policy is unravelling. The responsible Minister, Jackie Jarvis, has started to panic, reportedly ordering 120,000 tonnes of firewood to be produced, and in the process is sacrificing supplies to sawmills. Source: Gavin Butcher, Australian Rural & R
Continue Reading →

Traralgon timber rally against Dan Andrews & the Greens

30 August 2023
About 500 people have attended another timber rally in Traralgon to protest against the state government’s policy to close the native timber industry in January. Source: LaTrobe Valley Express Held at Gippsland Performing Arts Centre (GPAC), people came to hear from the Gippsland Peop
Continue Reading →

Archives

Subscribe to DTN

Click this link to subscribe. 

Copyright © 2022 Ryan Media Pty Ltd (Division of Provincial Press Group). All Rights Reserved.