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AusIndustry manager blown away by ingenuity of local manufacturers

31 July 2023
July marked one year in the role of regional manager – Southern Tasmania with AusIndustry and Penny Stringer said she has been ‘blown away’ by the innovation and ingenuity of local SME manufacturers. Source: Timberbiz “My purpose in life is to help people.  I love meeting with people,
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Construction activity slows but the risk of a downturn rises

31 July 2023
The first increase in the cash rate in May 2022 is yet to adversely impact employment in home building and further rate rises risk a deeper and more prolonged downturn, according to HIA Chief Economist Tim Reardon. Source: Timberbiz The Australian Bureau of Statistics released its mon
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Western Junction Sawmill director says recent media reports are false

31 July 2023
The recent media campaign against Western Junction Sawmill contains false, misleading, and exaggerated allegations including attributing footage of logs on wharves that have nothing to do with Western Junction Sawmill, according to the mill’s director Vince Hurley. Source: Timberbiz H
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Fair go for Tasmanian sawmillers

31 July 2023
Huon sawmill owner Anthony Watson has made an impassioned plea for better access to Tasmanian logs to ensure the livelihood of his workers and their families. Source: The Mercury Mr Watson, 51, and his father began the family business in 1995 on the site where a mill had been rebuilt
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WA State Government leaves timber industry high and dry

31 July 2023
Fed up with broken promises, the forestry industry has called out the WA State Government for failing on numerous commitments to industry. Source: Timberbiz Those commitments include supplying businesses with the timber they have been contracted to receive, as per former Premier Mark
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Vast camera bushfire detection network to protect Green Triangle

31 July 2023
The Green Triangle – along with its $860 million forestry industry – will soon be home to Australia’s largest camera bushfire detection network. Source: Timberbiz This investment in technology supports quick and precise fire detection, protecting communities and plantation forests, a
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Tropical sandalwood trials report

28 July 2023
During the 1990s and early 2000s, the Forest Products Commission (FPC), then Department of Conservation and Land Management, helped develop methods to grow high-value tropical sandalwood plantations near Kununurra, Western Australia. Source:  Forest Products Commission Following the e
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Sustainable solutions for forest residue wanted

28 July 2023
ForestrySA is on the hunt for new zero-waste options for forest residue material, in a bid to create regional economic growth and further enhance the sustainability credentials and negative-zero target of its operations. Source: Timberbiz Up to 25,000 tonnes of green resource is under
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Rockliff Liberals rock solid behind Tasmanian native forestry

28 July 2023
Reports that more than 300 Labor branches have backed a push to see native forestry stopped across the country increases the pressure on Tasmanian Opposition Leader Rebecca White and Tasmanian Labor, according to the State’s Resources Minister Felix Ellis. Source: Timberbiz “Despite c
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Ten Tasmanian sawmills join to secure hardwood stocks

28 July 2023
A coalition of 10 Tasmanian family-owned sawmills has publicly called on the Tasmanian Government to commit to their security through access to the Tasmanian hardwood plantation resource. Source: Timberbiz The resource was specifically established to secure the future of those mills a
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