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A slow start for the government’s aim to build 1.2 million new homes

10 January 2024
New house building approvals decreased by 1.9% in the month of November according to HIA Chief Economist, Tim Reardon. The Australian Bureau of Statistics released its monthly building approvals data for November 2023 for detached houses and multi-units covering all states and territo
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Brisbane to host next world conference on timber engineering

10 January 2024
The next World Conference on Timber Engineering will be held in Brisbane in 2025. The WCTE is the world’s leading scientific forum for the presentation of the latest technical and architectural solutions and innovations in timber construction. It is considered the most prestigious int
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New options for Victoria’s hardwood operations

10 January 2024
The beginning of 2024 marked the end of harvesting wood fibre from Victoria’s public forests but not the end of Victoria’s sustainable native hardwood industry. Source: Timberbiz “The Victorian Government’s decision last May created chaos with some businesses across the native hardwoo
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A Federal Court may determine the future of native timber in NSW

10 January 2024
Today a Federal Court judgement may determine the fate of native timber harvesting in New South Wales. This sector deeply ingrained in regional, rural and remote NSW has for generations served as a sustainable cornerstone for communities, families and businesses. Source: Timberbiz The
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AFWI team on the ground in Tasmania

08 January 2024
A few new faces have popped up on the Tasmanian forestry scene since the establishment of Australian Forestry and Wood Innovations (AFWI) in 2023. Source: Timberbiz AFWI is a significant development for Australia’s forestry and forest products sectors and is a collaboration between th
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FWPA Forest Research Grants call for proposal and program briefing

08 January 2024
Forest and Wood Products Australia (FWPA) has provided notice of an upcoming Call for Proposals for its Forest Research Grants Program. Source: Timberbiz The Forest Research Grants Program supports collaborative activities that advance research, development and extension (RD&E) of
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Mining company Alcoa may supply hardwood to forestry

08 January 2024
Western Australia also shut its doors to native forestry this January the government saying it will now protect almost two million hectares of native karri, jarrah and wandoo forests. It will protect those forests from foresters but perhaps not from mining companies. Source: Timberbiz
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Native forestry shutdown in Victoria but environmentalists want more

08 January 2024
Now that Victoria’s native logging has been shut down the consequences will be felt even more acutely, though many sawmills and harvesting operations were shut down last year. This is the end of an era. Source: Timberbiz Timber Towns Victoria has acknowledged the loss of regenerative
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Restructuring WA to meet timber demand

22 December 2023
As the Western Australian State Government’s ban on commercial production of jarrah and karri timber draws closer, the forestry industry is looking towards a restructured future to meet the community’s demand for timber and timber products. Source: Timberbiz While the State Government
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Opinion: Mark Poynter – politically forced forestry debacles

22 December 2023
In a few weeks, the curtain will be drawn on generations of domestic hardwood timber production from the public native forests of both Victoria and WA after their respective state Labor governments announced it would end at the close of 2023. A perpetual cycle of timber harvesting and
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