3D printing has lost its novelty value a bit, but new printing materials that MakerBot plans to release will make it a lot more interesting again. Source: PC World MakerBot is one of the best-known makers of desktop 3D printers, it announced that late this year its products would be a

Melbourne’s Dandenong Ranges are abuzz with the sound of chainsaws as international competitors turn logs of wood into art. Source: ABC News The Australian Chainsaw Carving Championships are underway at Mount Dandenong, east of Melbourne. Competitors will race the clock to turn

A government app from the state of Victoria has been issuing alerts for forest fires that don’t exist. Source: FutureGov Residents of Redesdale town received warnings last week from the FireReady app that there was a fire out-of-control 3.5km away, when there was no fire within 20km.

Potential mis-selling and poor advice are likely to once again occur in the forestry managed investment scheme (FMIS) sector if amendments to the Future of Financial Advice legislation are allowed to proceed. Source: Money Management According to Industry Super Australia (ISA), in its

A government department, major bank and agribusiness scheme promoter have challenged the narrative that financial planners were complicit in the collapse of the forestry and agribusiness managed investment scheme (MIS) sector. Source: Money Management In a series of submissions to the

Shoalhaven City Council in New South Wales has received a development application for a $2.95 million manufacturing facility to be built on land adjoining Australian Paper’s mill at Bolong. Source: South Coast Register Lee Carmichael Town Planning has made the application for speciali

Tasmanian Liberal MHR Andrew Nikolic has thrown his support behind the state government’s plans to allow companies to sue individuals, despite it unravelling nationally uniform defamation laws. Source: The Advocate The state government is pushing ahead with plans to amend the De

The South Australian Government said a failure of companies to meet selection criteria means a third round of applications for funds under the South-East Forestry Partnerships Program will open in March. Source: ABC News Forests Minister Leon Bignell said four south-east timber compan

Graeme Hart’s pulp and paper mill in the Eastern Bay of Plenty in New Zealand is now in the hands of a Japanese company. Source: Sun Live Oji Holding purchased the Hart-owned Carter Holt Harvey in April 2014 for NZ$1.037 billion. The pulp and paper mill sold for just over a NZ$1