VICTORIAN PLANTATION TIMBER INVESTMENT IMPORTANT BUT NO REPLACEMENT FOR NATIVE FORESTRY

The Victorian Government’s call for expressions of interest from investors and plantation developers to expand the State’s plantation timber supply is important, but the Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) has again warned the State’s policy makers not to use an initiative like this as another defence of its decision to end sustainably managed native forestry […]

FOREST INDUSTRIES READY TO ASSIST AUSTRALIA’S ECONOMIC RECOVERY

The Federal Budget delivered by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg last night has been welcomed by the Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) for its significant measures to support jobs, businesses, and manufacturing investment as Australia looks to kickstart the economy. The Budget details a $65 million bushfire support package that will provide relief to forest industries devastated […]

FOREST GROWERS LOOK TO THE FUTURE WITH RD&E AND BIOSECURITY FUNDING BOOST

Australia’s forest growers are being asked to support a proposed increase to the sector’s R&D and biosecurity levy to address the decline in funding and capacity for vital forest science research, development and extension (RD&E) and to tackle ever-increasing biosecurity threats. A group of forest growers that collectively produce over 90 per cent of Australia’s […]

Recycling and renewables must be part of federal manufacturing initiative

The Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) has welcomed the initial focus on recycling and clean energy in the Federal Government’s $1.3 billion Modern Manufacturing Initiative announced today, and has reminded policymakers that recycling and bioenergy must play a greater role in Australia’s low-emission manufacturing future. Prime Minister Scott Morrison laid out the initiative in Canberra […]

Forest industries welcome federal investment in low emissions technologies

The Australian Forests Products Association (AFPA) has welcomed the Morrison Government announcement today of a $1.9 billion investment in new low emissions technologies to back Aussie jobs and highlighted the significant carbon opportunities our renewable forest industries can provide. AFPA Chief Executive Officer Ross Hampton said, “With this announcement the Government has made an important […]

Forest products’ “Industry at a glance”

AFPA has produced a four page “Industry at a glance” document which provides a snapshot of the forest products industry in Australia. To view the document click on the cover image below.  

Vic opposition exposes Dan’s sham forestry plan

The Victorian Opposition has highlighted Premier Dan Andrews’ sham forestry plan and exposed the so-called “transition to plantations” as just Government spin. The Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) Ross Hampton commended Member for Eastern Victoria Melina Bath for uncovering that, almost a year after promising to “transition the industry to […]

Academic author of flawed bushfire report outed as Bob Brown Foundation campaigner

An academic forced to retract a scientific paper she co-authored after significant errors were exposed, Dr Jennifer Sanger, has now been revealed as a campaigner for the Bob Brown Foundation. The report has been condemned by the Australian Senate as “bodgy”.* In an opinion piece published in The Conversation, Dr Jennifer Sanger is disclosed as “working […]

AFPA welcomes the Victorian Forest Products Association

The newly formed Victorian Forest Products Association (VFPA) has today announced 23 foundation members and elected its Interim Governing Council.   The new Association will span Victoria’s forest industry value chain including plantations, native forestry operators, sawmills and pulp and paper making.   The eight members of the Interim Governing Council are: Sarah Harvie: Opal […]

The evidence is in – Forestry has no impact on fire severity

While anti forestry industry activists continue to support a retracted*, error laden, so called scientific report claiming fires are more severe in areas harvested for forestry, that support flies in the face of a large body of evidence.** The Chief Executive of the Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) Ross Hampton said, “You don’t have to […]

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