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Letters to Premier Allan from 40 businesses in forestry and timber

06 December 2023
Dahlsens is one of more than 40 Gippsland and Victorian businesses connected to the forestry sector who have written a letter to the Premier, Jacinta Allan, urging a rethink of the policy to close the native forest industry, arguing the decision has several direct and perverse uninten
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Live tree for Qld Parliament bedecked with sustainable decorations

06 December 2023
The carbon and biophilic benefits of providing a fresh pine Christmas tree for the Queensland Parliamentary Annexe has been enhanced this festive season with Queensland’s Parliamentary Friends of the Forest and Timber Industry network recognising the use of sustainable decorations mad
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Appalling, inadequate compensation by Vic Gov’t say Nationals

06 December 2023
The Nationals have slammed the State Government in Victoria for offering native timber workers “appalling and inadequate compensation payouts” at the industry’s death knell. Source: Timberbiz Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Public Land Use and Member for Eastern Victoria Region, Me
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Project of the Year decided by Engineers Australia

04 December 2023
The Boola Katitjin at Murdoch University, the largest mass engineered timber construction project in Western Australia, has won Project of the Year at the 2023 Engineers Australia Excellence Awards. Source: Timberbiz The four-storey building built by Aurecon has been designed to susta
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New house approvals increased 1.2% in October

04 December 2023
The Australian Bureau of Statistics released its monthly building approvals data for October for detached houses and multi-units covering all states and territories. Source: Timberbiz “This leaves house approvals over the last three months down by 11.2% compared to the same quarter la
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Impacts of litigation palpable in VicForests Annual Report

04 December 2023
Litigation brought by environmental groups had a fundamental impact on VicForests’ financial results in 2022-23, the state government forestry body said in its 2022-23 Annual Report. Source: Philip Hopkins, Latrobe Valley Express. The chief executive, Monique Dawson, said VicForests h
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Climate Change Authority recognises carbon in trees and in wood products

04 December 2023
The Climate Change Authority’s second Annual Progress Report has recognised that the ‘carbon stored in trees’ as well as ‘harvested wood products’ helped reduce Australia’s greenhouse emissions in the year to June 2023. Source: Timberbiz “We are delighted by the growing recognition th
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Support packages for Vic businesses forced out are not fair

04 December 2023
The release of support packages for the forest contracting businesses being forced to exit the industry has shown that the Victorian Government has again failed to walk the talk, according to the Australian Forest Contractors Association. Source: Timberbiz AFCA General Manager Tim Les
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OFO tradition to give away free Christmas trees

01 December 2023
OneFortyOne is keeping a local Christmas tradition alive, giving away free Christmas trees this December. General Manager Green Triangle Forests Deon Kriek said the radiata pines are thinned from different parts of the OneFortyOne estate. Source: Timberbiz “The trees we give away are
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Native timber industry to close next month and workers still in limbo

01 December 2023
With the native timber industry to close in Victoria at the end of the month Gippsland East Nationals MP, Tim Bull, has blasted the Labor State Government for its inexcusable treatment of timber families. Source: Timberbiz “As it sits, we have four weeks until the closure and the gove
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