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AFPA welcomes new Labor government now sworn in

23 May 2022
The Australian Forest Products Association has congratulated the incoming Albanese Labor Government and signalled its determination to assist Labor meet timber production targets and more ambitious climate goals. Source: Timberbiz Anthony Albanese was sworn in as Australia’s 31st prim
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Get in quick with your Gottstein application

20 May 2022
Gottstein Trust flagship grants program applicants have until 3 June to get their applications in. These opportunities are open to absolutely anyone – an in-field machinery operator,  nursery worker,  mill worker, TAFE student, haulage operator, PhD researcher, architect, engineer, si
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Careers Week launch of VR experiences in forestry

20 May 2022
New resources have been launched during Careers Week 2022 that allow school students of all ages to glimpse a virtual day in the life of a different people working in forestry and wood, without leaving the classroom. Source: Timberbiz ForestLearning’s hugely successful ForestVR techno
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Australian consumption of overseas timber is high and at risk

20 May 2022
Australia’s consumption of sawn timber for housing and other uses lifted to an all-time high year-ended March 2022. Data released and loaded to IndustryEdge’s Wood Market Edge online platform shows supply of timber continues to work to meet Australia’s huge demand for new houses. Sour
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Albanese writes a promise to keep Tasmanian native forestry

20 May 2022
Opposition leader Anthony Albanese has personally written to Tasmanian timber workers backing their jobs and industry in an intervention that comes as the timber worker union, CFMEU Manufacturing, releases a scorecard that highlights the gaps in the Coalition policy. In his letter Mr
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Opinion: Ross Hampton – a worldwide complacency about future timber supplies

20 May 2022
For some time now I’ve been struck by the lack of a serious conversation about the vital need to ensure timber and fibre resources keep up with global demand. For this reason, I recently travelled to London, Edinburgh and Rome with the primary objective of understanding better what po
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Friday analysis: Labor’s link to the Greens is the devil in the detail in the Federal election

20 May 2022
The biggest risk to the Australian timber industry in tomorrow’s Federal Election it seems is that it ends with a Labor Government with the support of independents. And by independents, in particular, read The Greens. Consider this. Greens Senator for Tasmania Peter Whish-Wilson is al
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Australian and NZ softwood log prices lift despite price drops

18 May 2022
The Australian and New Zealand regional Softwood Log Price Index lifted 14.4% in March, despite deteriorating prices for Australian exports. Source: IndustryEdge The combined weighted index, based in US dollars, rose entirely due to a 16.1% lift in New Zealand’s export price according
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New carpentry trade facility for Melbourne’s north

18 May 2022
Victoria’s State Government has delivered a new carpentry trade facility at Kangan TAFE – the final piece in the TAFE’s multi-million-dollar Trades and Skills Centre for Broadmeadows jobseekers. Source: Timberbiz Minister for Training and Skills Gayle Tierney launched the $1.2 m
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Five new research projects for Queensland forestry hub

18 May 2022
The South & Central Queensland Regional Forestry Hub has engaged forestry and technical experts to deliver five new research projects to assist in increasing the productivity and sustainability of the region’s forest and timber industry. Source: Timberbiz Hub Manager, Kerry Fullar
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