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Government calls for input on timber legislation review

01 July 2009
TIMBER INDUSTRY stakeholders have been invited to have their say in the Queensland Government's review of the Timber Utilisation and Marketing Act 1987.
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Chairman passes baton to successor

01 July 2009
AFTER THREE years at the helm of Western Australia’s Forest Products Commission (FPC), David Taylor has retired and handed the baton of chairman to his deputy Eva Skira.
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Wood goes from strength to strength

01 July 2009
THE ADVANTAGES and potential uses of laminated wood were highlighted at the International Symposium on Veneer Processing and Products in Finland in May.
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Red gum harvesting ends in proposed parks

01 July 2009
Commercial timber harvesting has ended in two of the most important parts of Victoria’s River Red Gum country following the Brumby Government’s decision to protect iconic areas along the Murray River.
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Training partnership to deliver improved forest safety

29 June 2009
A partnership agreement signed today between Forestry Tasmania and the Tasmanian Forest Contractors Association (TFCA) promises to deliver improved safety outcomes for forest workers.
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World line-up of sawing expertise coming to Australasia

29 June 2009
A BIANNUAL study jointly prepared by International Wood Markets Group out of Canada with input from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Beck Group, has just released the Global Lumber/Sawn Wood Cost Benchmarking Report.
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Australian timber industry consolidates and improves systems to verify legally harvested wood

24 June 2009
AUSTRALIAN TIMBER and forest-based product industries are starting a project to consolidate and improve systems to verify that the wood they import and use is sourced from legal forest operations.
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Joining forces in fight against illegal logging

24 June 2009
AUSTRALIA AND Papua New Guinea have formally agreed to join forces to tackle illegal logging.
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Timber industry set to generate employment with infrastructure-led recovery

24 June 2009
PLANTATION FORESTRY expansion is driving a massive increase in investment in the timber processing industry with infrastructure and development proposals worth around $7 billion of new capacity set to generate around 6,000 jobs, according to the National Association of Forest Industri
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Australia: Emissions Trading Scheme update

22 June 2009
by David Coombes, Anna Wilson and Christine Hutchinson THE START date for the emissions trading scheme has been pushed back 12 months as the politics over the scheme unfold. If the new Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill (CPRS) is passed and phased in as promised from 1 July 2011
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