AFPA pays tribute to Australian health, food and forest workers for their work during the pandemic
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New recycling modernisation fund will underpin more paper recycling in Australia
The Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) has welcomed today’s announcement by the Federal Government it will invest in Australia’s waste and recycling capacity, and help enable more waste-paper and cardboard to be recycled domestically. The Morrison...
State government stimulus measures needed to support ‘Homebuilder’
Australian Bureau of Agricultural & Resource Economics & Sciences (ABARES) Insights Report# is a timely reminder of the forecast looming drop in new home and associated timber demand and the ongoing need for targeted stimulus measures to boost new...
Tens of millions of new production trees to be planted, thanks to Morrison Government
The Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) has welcomed the Federal Government’s removal of regulatory barriers to enable production tree planting on farms and in plantations. The announcement will pave the way for tens of millions of new trees to potentially...
Bunnings’ short-sighted decision will cost Aussie jobs and lead to environment-destroying imports
Bunnings’s short-sighted decision to stop stocking timber sourced from Victoria’s sustainably managed native forests and produced by local timber mills, is a knee-jerk reaction to pander to extremist activist groups that will only lead to more imported timber from...
No panic needed on Australian toilet paper supplies
As nationwide restrictions on the limit of toilet paper customers are able to purchase are again imposed by the major supermarkets, the Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) wants to provide assurance to the community that there is no need for panic-buying....