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More promises from Vic Government for bushfire response

28 August 2020
The Victorian Government has unveiled a new blueprint for the state’s fire-affected regions and more than $110 million for local projects that create jobs and help communities recover from the summer’s devastating bushfires. Source: Timberbiz The Bushfire Recovery Victoria’s Eastern V
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Where is the promised recovery money for Victoria?

28 August 2020
Forestry workers in Northern Victoria have sent an open letter to the Federal Government pleading for around $65 million in bush recovery support to be delivered urgently. Sources: Timberbiz, Myrtleford Times, Wangaratta Chronicle. The money was promised by the Federal Government as p
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Friday analysis: Victorians says show me the money Mr Duniam

28 August 2020
The Federal and State governments, understandably, have a lot on their minds. Apart from running the country – a big enough job by any measure – they have had to handle a pandemic and in New South Wales’ and Victoria’s case the recovery from the bushfires. Source: Bruce Mitchell To th
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New firefighting helicopter donated to NSW Rural Fire

24 August 2020
Communities across NSW are set to benefit from a state-of-the-art firefighting helicopter, donated by the Goodman Foundation in a first of its kind partnership with the NSW Rural Fire. This comes as part of the Goodman Foundation’s $6.5 million pledge earlier this year to support Aust
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Forest & Wood Communities Australia – new association to fight for grassroots workers and communities

24 August 2020
  Not since the Tasmanian ‘forest wars’ have timber workers and their communities felt more besieged by malicious and carefully co-ordinated attacks on forestry and their jobs. Source: Justin Law Corporate activist organisations have ramped up their efforts to close down the indu
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AFPA says Bob Brown Foundation launching “lawfare”

24 August 2020
The Bob Brown Foundation’s legal action against Tasmania’s sustainable forest industries has been labelled as “just the latest callous attack on forestry workers from the extremist activist group” threatening vital regional jobs in an essential industry at a time when Aust
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Buy Aussie timber and help a carpenter

21 August 2020
CoViD-19 pandemic restrictions are putting immense pressure on Aussie jobs, businesses and livelihoods. This is especially poignant now with the second wave of contagion and associated lockdown in Victoria. Source: Timberbiz In response, Australia’s softwood timber processing in
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New Tasmanian CEO a man of Steel

21 August 2020
The Tasmanian Forest Products Association (TFPA) has announced the appointment of Nick Steel as its first Chief Executive Officer. He has been the Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Policy Manager at the Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association for the past decade. Source: Timberbiz
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Investors to sue estate of Gunn’s John Gay and former Tas premier

21 August 2020
Investors in Tasmania’s failed eucalypt plantation managed investment schemes are suing the estate of the late Gunns Ltd boss John Gay and former Tasmanian premier Robin Gray. The investors have also been given approval to sue two of Gunns’ insurers as well. Source: Timberbiz The inve
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Bob Brown Foundation launches action to end native forestry in Tasmania

21 August 2020
The Bob Brown Foundation has launched a legal action which it hopes might end native forest logging in Tasmania by establishing that the industry is breaking federal environmental laws. Source: Timberbiz The case by the Bob Brown Foundation, lodged in the federal court on Thursday, ch
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