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SFM to export from Tasmania’s north

22 October 2015
There are signs Tasmania’s forestry industry is picking up, with hopes of increased exports of veneer and sawlogs from the state’s north. Source: ABC News Forestry company Neville-Smith Smartfibre has teamed up with SFM Forest Products and there are plans to export timber
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Failed timber schemes cost Australian investors

22 October 2015
Initially billed as low-risk investments, failed timber and agribusiness schemes around the country have now cost thousands of Australian investors their life savings. Source: ABC News “Pests and diseases, bushfires — these things were anything but safe and the fact that you did
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Masters of hardware is Danks

22 October 2015
Woolworths’ Masters home improvement chain is considered unsaleable after losing more than $600 million over the last few years, but the same can not be said for Woolworths’ Home Timber and Hardware chain, aka Danks. Source: The Australian Financial Review Hundreds of inde
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Tassie new hardship plan falls short

22 October 2015
Former forestry contractors are warning that the Tasmanian Government’s plan for a new hardship fund will not go far enough. Source: ABC News Tasmania’s Resources Minister Paul Harriss has confirmed that Cabinet has ticked off on a $1 million compensation fund for workers
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Master tree growers course

22 October 2015
Becky McCann is a trainer with the not-for-profit Australian Agroforestry Foundation that is providing Tasmania’s first Master Tree Growers. Source: ABC Rural The Australian Master Tree Grower program focused on growing and managing trees for conservation and profit. Ms McCann s
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Nine million seedlings won’t add to softwood plantings

22 October 2015
New South Wales’ biggest producer of pine trees says there is no plan as yet to increase softwood plantings. Source: ABC News The Tumut Shire Council says there is an urgent need to put more trees in the ground to ensure supply for massive investments in local mills, including V
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International forestry boards has vision for Tasmania

22 October 2015
The head of Australia’s largest forestry investment company is upbeat about his sector. Ten years after founding New Forests, chief executive David Brand hosted a visit of the international board of Forest Trends to Tasmania, to show the reasons for his confident outlook. Source
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Safety is good business

22 October 2015
Ann Sherry AO, Chair of Safe Work Australia and National Safe Work Month Ambassador is urging businesses to make health and safety a priority and conduct a risk assessment during the third week of 2015 National Safe Work Month. Source: Timberbiz “National Safe Work Month is all about
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Timber transforming the concept of “daggy dongas”

22 October 2015
The mindset that prefabricated buildings are only “daggy dongas” is changing and timber products are playing a key role in the acceptance of entire buildings or significant parts being manufactured in advance and then installed or assembled on site. Source: Timberbiz Off-site construc
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Forestry responsibility still in limbo

22 October 2015
The Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) has called on the Government to urgently resolve responsibilities for the carriage of the different sectors contained within the Government’s Agriculture and Water Resources portfolio. Source: Timberbiz “It is now four weeks since the
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