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John Deere Australian Technician of the Year

10 August 2022
Max O’Brien has been named the Construction & Forestry Service Technician of the Year at the second annual John Deere Technician Awards in Brisbane. Source: Timberbiz The talented tradesman, who works for RDO Equipment Wingfield, South Australia, vied for the title against five ot
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Minister Watt confirms forestry has a huge role in emissions reduction

10 August 2022
Australia’s Minister responsible for forest industries, Senator Murray Watt has declared the sector has “a huge role to play” in Australia’s emissions reduction task. The Minister’s remarks came in a broader speech on Australia’s agriculture sector to the National Rural Press Club in
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Forestry must be a part of the carbon market

10 August 2022
Australian forest industries’ continued participation in the carbon market is essential if the Albanese Government is to achieve its ambitious emissions reduction targets, according to the Australian Forest Products Association. Source: Timberbiz Responding to concerns Independent Sen
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Red Stag purchases TimberLab to jump start its growth

10 August 2022
Surging interest in sustainable construction has seen one of the New Zealand’s oldest mass timber businesses combine with one of the youngest. After 64 years in McIntosh family ownership TimberLab Solutions has joined the Red Stag group following a share sale completed last week
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Nationals say Vic Labor has set the stage for more ugly forestry protests

10 August 2022
The Victorian Government has set the stage for an ugly showdown between legal forestry workers and increasingly belligerent and reckless protestors by blocking urgent amendments to legislation covering the timber industry, according to the Nationals. Source: Timberbiz The Nationals Le
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Australian population growth demands more wood for housing

08 August 2022
Australia’s population growth to 2050 will result in the national population being between 33.62 million and 39.67 million people. The actual population depends mainly on the birth rate and the rate of net overseas migration, with other demographic factors largely certain, within narr
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Growth scholarships to an engineer, a forester, a scientist and a production worker

08 August 2022
Timber Queensland has announced the recipients of its Growth Scholarship Awards Program for 2022-23. Timber Queensland’s Strategic Relations Manager Clarissa Brandt said the inaugural program invited early and mid-career professionals and skilled workers to submit details of a propose
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Victoria passes law to better protect forestry workers from protesters

08 August 2022
Strengthened laws to protect forestry workers from illegal protest activity have passed the Victorian Parliament. Source: Timberbiz The Sustainable Forests Timber Amendment (Timber Harvesting Safety Zones) Bill 2022, brings stronger penalties to deter dangerous protest activities that
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Wood You Like to Know as an architect, engineer or specifier

05 August 2022
More than 100 architects, engineers, and specifiers will gather in Melbourne on 24 August for one of Australia’s largest timber industry events. Titled ‘Wood You Like to Know’, it aligns with the Ultimate Renewable theme promoting timber as “undeniably the most sustainable building ma
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Wake up Australia there’s a serious timber supply problem, and Victoria imports too much

05 August 2022
Australia’s housing construction sector faces a serious timber supply gap by mid-century if the nation doesn’t move quickly to implement the billion new production trees plan, a new Forest and Wood Products Australia report has found. Source: Timberbiz The final report released this w
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