The Australian Timber Flooring Association Awards For Excellence were held in Melbourne to recognise and celebrate the best boards in the business, and honour the industry’s star performers. Source: Architecture and Design The Australian Timber Flooring Association (ATFA) President, J

There is now bipartisan support in Tasmania for limited logging of trees within parts of the state’s World Heritage-listed wilderness. Source: ABC News Last month, UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee urged the Australian and Tasmanian governments to ban commercial logging wi

A bid to resurrect the Gunns pulp mill is close to fruition but may require the Abbott government to approve the use of native forests as feedstock, provoking a monumental environmental stoush. Source: The Australian KordaMentha, liquidator of the collapsed timber company, is in the f

The newly created Forest Industry Safety Council (FISC) held its first meeting. The FISC was a key recommendation of the independent safety review panel that released its findings last year after investigating the industry’s appalling accident record. Source: Radio New Zealand T

Nelson Forests Ltd health and safety manager Les Bak forest safety is about respect, sharing knowledge, keeping it simple and getting workmates to look out for each other. Source: Stuff.co.nz “You can change beliefs but the way to get long term passion is to improve values.̶

The owner of a forestry block in New Zealand where a man was crushed to death alleges the consultants he hired to clear his trees put pressure on the man to complete the work in an “impossible” time frame. Source: Stuff.co.nz Michael Steven Langford, 28, died on November 2

Victoria’s native timber was offered to a Japanese-owned paper mill at a discounted fixed price as part of a secret government deal to end a protracted multimillion-dollar dispute over unpaid debts. Source: The Age A Department of Treasury briefing revealed Gippsland-based Austr

New home commencements have peaked, but will remain at a very high level in 2015/16 according to new analysis from the Housing Industry Association (HIA).  Source: Timberbiz “It is likely that new dwelling commencements peaked at a record level of 215,000 in the financial year just pa