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‘Bodgy’ paper clearly shows a conflict of interest

09 September 2020
The Australian Forest Products Association wants the University of Tasmania to investigate Dr Jennifer Sanger over her links to the Bob Brown Foundation. Dr Sanger was co-author of a peer reviewed scientific paper with Professor James Kirkpatrick and Suyanti Winoto-Lewin from the Univ
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Timber imperfections should be embraced

09 September 2020
If you’ve a timber yard, or driven past a timber truck, you’ve seen the rows upon rows of stacked timber, all cut to uniform lengths and widths. Have you ever wondered why we’re so fixated on this uniformity, rather than embracing the natural variation or ‘imperfections’ in timber tha
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Hyne Tumbarumba mill’s future in doubt

07 September 2020
The family-owned 138-year-old Hyne Timber company is continuing to call for government support to direct Australian saw logs destined for China to their mill in Tumbarumba. Source: Timberbiz Chief Executive Officer Jon Kleinschmidt said employees and the community were increasingly co
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Building approvals up 12% in July

07 September 2020
The HomeBuilder program has been very positive for the detached house sector, but the impact of this program is yet to be seen in ABS approval data. The lift in detached house approvals in July is more likely to reflect building application lodgement and processing returning to normal
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Richard Stanton Award first time to joint winners

07 September 2020
The sustainability managers from the construction team behind Sydney Metro Northwest, Australia’s largest public transport infrastructure project in recent years were presented with the 2019 Richard Stanton Memorial Prize for Excellence in Sustainable Forest Management. Source: Timber
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Fireball to roll out instant bushfire detection system

07 September 2020
  Inventors of a system which can detect bushfires in minutes will share in more than $5 million from the Morrison Government to roll out the technology here at home and overseas. Source: Timberbiz Fireball’s bushfire detection, mapping, and intelligence system uses satellite and
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AKD Caboolture mill reopens safer than before

04 September 2020
AKD’s Caboolture Sawmill will recommence operations on September 14 following a storage shed fire in June. The company says the reopening had been made possible due to the rebuilding of the fuel handling system which will make for a safer and more sustainable business in the long term
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Foundation members for new Vic Forest Products Association

04 September 2020
The newly formed Victorian Forest Products Association has announced its 23 foundation members and elected its Interim governing council. The new association will span Victoria’s forest industry value chain including plantations, native forestry operators, sawmills and pulp and paper
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Softwood bypassing SA mills and heading to China

04 September 2020
A South Australian regional timber processor has warned thousands of tonnes of softwood resource are bypassing mills and heading to China, despite long-term shortages facing some businesses. Source: ABC Softwood export volumes decreased during the start of the pandemic, but trade is a
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Friday analysis: faulty scientific paper has damaged all sides

04 September 2020
So, a peer-reviewed scientific paper, written by Professor James Kirkpatrick, Suyanti Winoto-Lewin and Jenny Sanger from the University of Tasmania’s Discipline of Geography and Spatial Sciences, has been retracted from the MDPI journal Fire. The journal has apologised to its readers.
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