Deb Kerr announced as inaugural Victorian Forest Products Association CEO
The Victorian Forest Products Association (VFPA) has announced the appointment of its foundation Chief Executive Officer Deb Kerr. Ms Kerr has extensive experience in the primary industries sector, having worked in various industry representative roles across the sector, and most recently as a senior executive with Australian Pork Limited. The Chair of the VFPA Tony […]
TFPA deeply disappointed with unsubstantiated WWF commentary
The Tasmanian Forest Products Association is deeply disappointed with unsubstantiated commentary from the WWF after throwaway comments linked deforestation to Tasmanian forestry and the ending of the Tasmanian Forest Agreement. “It is wrong to link Tasmania’s forest industry to deforestation”, Tasmanian Forest Products Association CEO, Nick Steel said. “Tasmania’s forest industry is the ultimate renewable; […]
ABC SCIENCE CORRECTS ITS MISREPRESENTATION OF AUSTRALIAN REGROWTH NATIVE FORESTRY
The Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) has welcomed the finding by the ABC Audience and Consumer Affairs Department that a recently published story made a series of errors which showed Australian forestry in a negative light. The complaint to the ABC was made by Justin Law, Managing Director of community group, Forest and Wood Communities […]
MORRISON/ McCORMACK GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES $40M IN BUSHFIRE RECOVERY GRANTS
The Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) has congratulated the Federal Government on the announcement today of 14 grants to forest industry businesses totalling $40million dollars to aid in their recovery from the Black Summer bushfires. Chief Executive Officer of AFPA Ross Hampton said, “After the enormous challenges of dealing with COVID through 2020, the Black […]
DAN TEHAN A GOOD FIT FOR TRADE PORTFOLIO
The Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) has welcomed Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s appointment of Member for Wannon Dan Tehan to the Trade, Tourism and Investment portfolio. Chief Executive Officer of AFPA Ross Hampton said, “Minister Tehan is the right person to place into this role at a crucial time.” “Minister Tehan’s electorate includes the key forest […]
AFPA welcomes appointment of Senator Jonno Duniam as Assistant Minister for Industry Development
The Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) welcomes Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s appointment of Tasmanian Senator Jonno Duniam as Assistant Minister for Industry Development, in addition to his existing role of Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries. AFPA Chief Executive Officer Ross Hampton said Senator Duniam has proven himself a true champion of Australia’s forest industries, […]
LIKE AUSTRALIA, CANADA BANKS ON MASSIVE PRODUCTION TREE PLANTING FOR JOBS AND CLIMATE
The Australian Government’s target for one billion new production trees, announced two years ago, has been emphatically endorsed today by news that Canada will spend $3.16 billion to plant an additional two (2) billion trees by 2030. Canada says it is a plan for meeting its climate change targets, as well as increasing the renewable […]
Woolies makes the right choice for Aussie jobs and the environment
The Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) has welcomed an announcement by Woolies that it will be stocking locally made paper bags in South Australia and the Northern Territory so Aussie shoppers can directly support local wood fibre manufacturing jobs by using them to pack their groceries. Woolies announced in June it would make the change […]
Timberlink congratulated on innovative timber investment in South Australia
The Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) and the South Australian Forest Products Association (SAFPA) has welcomed timber manufacturing business Timberlink’s announcement that it will construct its new $59 million state-of-the-art Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) and Glue Laminated Timber (GLT) manufacturing facility at Tarpeena in South Australia – right next door to Timberlink’s existing sawmill site. […]
AUSTRALIAN FOREST INDUSTRIES WELCOME GOVERNMENT CRACK DOWN ON ILLEGAL TIMBER IMPORTS
The Australian Forests Products Association (AFPA) has welcomed Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries Jonno Duniam’s announcement of an Australian first national DNA testing program to verify the species and origin of imported timber sold at retail outlets across Australia. The testing program supports the Government’s work conducted under the Illegal Logging Prohibition Act 2012, […]