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Timber industry drives employment boost in Manjimup

18 January 2021
  Manjimup will receive an economic boost this year, with the re-activation of a local timber processing centre creating 65 full-time jobs. The new jobs are the result of a $14 million-dollar investment from Parkside Timber, as it retires its dry mill at Greenbushes to upgrade th
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Passive House Training

15 January 2021
The Australian Passive House Association will be providing Certified Passive House Training Courses starting in March. APHA’s program will accommodate designers and trades people Australia-wide, building capacity with a world class curriculum and platform. Source: Timberbiz The course
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China to add new regs for timber imports

15 January 2021
China has notified the World Trade Organisation that it will introduce new regulations covering anti-pest measures for timber imports, including those from Australia. Source: Philip Hopkins for Timberbiz The chief executive of Tasmania’s Tree Alliance, Penny Wells, said it was underst
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Opinion – Andrew Walker: Logging forests aren’t a fire risk, but state forests are

15 January 2021
Indigenous Tasmanians managed the forests right for 60,000 years, now our state forests are left to become tinderboxes under a struggling Parks and Wildlife department, wrote Andrew Walker in The Mercury newspaper. The time has come to have a mature debate about the future wellbeing o
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Friday analysis: China’s talking, and things are looking up post Trump

15 January 2021
There appears to be some movement in the China situation. Firstly, it appears there may be some response from China. That response – that China has notified the World Trade Organization that it will introduce new regulations covering anti-pest measures for timber imports, including th
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International Mass Timber Conference a virtual experience in 2021

13 January 2021
The 6th Annual 2021 International Mass Timber Conference will be 100% virtual held from 30 March 30 – 1 April, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. A virtual platform should drive even greater global attendance, more than 900 attendees from 15 countries are already. Although 2021 wil
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Sandalwood Taskforce report’s recommendations open to comment

13 January 2021
The WA Sandalwood Taskforce has provided eight recommendations to Government that will support the growth of economic opportunities for Aboriginal people. The recommendations address key issues such as barriers to participation, resource inventory, capacity building and quota allocati
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NSW National’s Leader a born-again green

13 January 2021
Deputy Premier John Barilaro has ‘kissed and made up’ with Environment Minister Matt ‘Green’ Kean after taking time off on ‘stress leave’ last year. On Monday he told a reporter “I believe in climate change” and reportedly opened the door to shutting down logging of old-growth forest
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Harvestco gets contract for Kangaroo Island harvesting needs workers

13 January 2021
National forestry services company Harvestco is looking for extra staff to help in the harvesting of timber on Kangaroo Island. Harvestco has been awarded the contract to harvest, store and stockpile the first 200,000 tonnes of pine in the Kangaroo Island Plantation Timbers estate. A
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What contributed to fires on Kangaroo Island

11 January 2021
On the first anniversary of the Ravine Bushfire which burned 150,000 ha and tragically took two lives on Kangaroo Island, Keith Lamb, Chair of South Australian Forest Products Association (SAFPA), and Managing Director of Kangaroo Island Plantation Timbers (KIPT), has reflected on pol
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