An organisational shakeup in the lobby group Timber Communities Australia is not expected to affect the state’s forest peace deal. Source: ABC News
The TCA is a signatory to the peace deal, which has been thrashed out over three years.
The chief executive, Jim Adams, has been made redundant and the board stepped down last week so that the organisation can be revamped.
An interim board has taken charge of the restructuring the body which has been struggling financially due to a downturn in the forest industry.
Its head Tim Woods said a review was timely.
“Twenty-odd years on after its establishment, Timber Communities Australia needs to make revisions,” he said.
The interim board remains committed to the forest peace deal. Adams will remain on the special council overseeing the peace deal until after the group’s restructure is complete.
The organisation’s Huon branch president, George Harris, wants to ensure Tasmania is represented well in the revamped organisation.
“We are very keen that we continue to have that TCA position in that special council available to us and we are seeking to have a Tasmanian person representing Tasmanian branch members take up that position on the special council,” he said.
