While the mainstream media focuses on the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement, there are already a number of other well-established links to exchange ideas and skills in a clear show of cooperation between our two countries. Source: Timberbiz While the mainstream media focuses on the
Dr Marie Yee was presented with the inaugural Richard Stanton Memorial Trophy for Excellence in Sustainable Forestry at an all-industry dinner in Melbourne last week. Source: Timberbiz Senator Anne Ruston presented Dr Yee, a senior conservation planner at Forestry Tasmania, with the c
A court case involving alleged knock-off furniture highlights a unique aspect of New Zealand copyright law, according to intellectual property specialists James & Wells. Source: Scoop NZ James & Wells’ client Plantation Grown Timbers (PGT) designs and produces collections of f
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
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
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
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
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
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
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