Australasia's home for timber news and information

The ups and downs of Australian and NZ timber exports

06 March 2023
Much like the rest of the global market, Australia and New Zealand have seen their share of ups and down over the past year. This is especially evident in most of the countries’ exports. Source: Forest2Market The Australian and New Zealand Export Log Price Index dropped in Janua
Continue Reading →

Sign the petition to save timber communities and sustainable forestry

06 March 2023
Forest and Wood Communities has launched an online petition for people to show their support for sustainable forestry, regional communities and local timber production. By Monday morning 1502 people had signed the petition. Source: Timberbiz In the invitation to sign the petition the
Continue Reading →

Vic govt will support Opal workers but relies on Opal to do the right thing

06 March 2023
Victoria’s State Government says supporting workers in the Latrobe Valley is a top priority and it welcomes Opal’s recent public confirmation of the importance of the Maryvale mill and its workers to the company’s future. Source: Timberbiz We are and will continue discussi
Continue Reading →

Fines for 14 furniture importers due to illegally harvested timber

03 March 2023
The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry fined 14 furniture importers more than $186,000 last week because they didn’t act to minimise the risk of importing illegally harvested timber. Source: Timberbiz Head of Compliance and Enforcement at the department, Peter Timson sa
Continue Reading →

A quarter of all hardwood comes from South East NSW

03 March 2023
An Ernst + Young Report shows that the timber industry in South East NSW is a critically important part of the region’s economy, supplying a quarter of NSW’s nation-building hardwood timber. Source: Timberbiz Yet the livelihoods of thousands of timber workers in the region are threate
Continue Reading →

Australian log exports bounce back

03 March 2023
Timber log export value from Australia has bounced back after declining by around 66% in 2020. Source: The Border Watch The decline was mostly attributed to Chinese suspension of imports of all timber logs from Australia in late 2020 due to trade tensions. Log export from Portland als
Continue Reading →

Job losses ripping through Victorian communities

03 March 2023
Victorian regional communities are feeling the brunt of brutal job and skills losses since the timber supply issues stemming from a Supreme Court order in November 2022 locking up Victoria’s native forests are causing mills to close down. Source: Timberbiz It was announced in 2019 by
Continue Reading →

Friday analysis: A quiet election in NSW but it could spell trouble for forestry

03 March 2023
The New South Wales State election is in full swing now, and up until this week it has been an extremely quiet affair. Even the Sydney Morning Herald commented this week that people could be forgiven for not even realising there’s an election on 25 March. Cost of living is of course a
Continue Reading →

Sensible heads needed for sensible housing

01 March 2023
Master Builders Australia has called on the Senate not to miss an opportunity for sensible reform in helping to achieve the housing needs for the future. Source: Timberbiz In lodging its submission to the Economics Legislation Committee inquiry into housing bills Master Builders Austr
Continue Reading →

Great Koala Park is unnecessary, but timber and jobs are needed

01 March 2023
An Ernst + Young Report shows that the hardwood timber industry is critically important to the Northern NSW economy. Plans for a Koala Park and ‘transitioning’ native forestry to plantations are unnecessary and unworkable, threatening the livelihood of thousands of timber workers in t
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.