RECENT RELEASES
AFPA CEO Ross Hampton’s ABC Op-ed on bushfire prevention
OPINION We've had a horror fire season, but locking up bushland isn't a practical solution By Ross Hampton Posted Yesterday Salvage logging after the 2009 wildfires in Victoria. (Supplied: David Lindenmayer) It has been a tragic fire season. Families and communities...
Australians identify lack of hazard reduction as the main reason for bushfires
The Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) has noted the results of a Newspoll published in the Australian this week which found a majority of those surveyed believed insufficient hazard reduction was the main reason for the severity of the summer bushfires....
A win for Tasmanian forestry workers’ right to a safe workplace
The Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) and Forest Industries Association of Tasmania (FIAT) have welcomed the Work Health and Safety Regulator’s common-sense decision to order the Bob Brown Foundation to cease all illegal forestry protests, which have...
HAZARD REDUCTION NAMED IN NATIONAL BUSHFIRE ROYAL COMMISSION TERMS OF REFERENCE
The Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) has welcomed the announcement by Prime Minister Scott Morrison of the terms of reference for the national bushfire Royal Commission and applauded the inclusion of hazard reduction as one of its priorities. The terms of...
Forestry contractors put their case for support to Federal MPs in parliament
A delegation of forestry contractors from Victoria and NSW held a series of productive meetings with Federal Government and Opposition Ministers, Shadow Minsters and local MPs in Canberra on Thursday to highlight the crisis they are facing as a result of the...