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As consequence of the impact of the 2019/2020 fires in Australia this project was designed to the develop guidelines for fire salvage and burnt log storage and processing, for pine and eucaly…
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There is a grudging consensus about the trajectory of Australia’s jobs outlook: most see it improving and continuing to improve into 2022. That is where the consensus ends, with some widely d…
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Latest forecasts produced by ABARES for FWPA, provide an insight into expectations of continued growth in sales through most of 2021, for three of the four grades covered by the forecast meth…
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Conditions were clearly ripe for price increases for most grades of sawn softwood in the December quarter. The market delivered average price increases in most of the measured markets, but t…
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Local softwood timber sales up 9.2% in 2020 [1 of 3] Sales of locally produced sawn softwood lifted 9.2% in 2020, rising to 3.117 million m3, as the local industry responded to the unexpected ra…
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Australia’s log exports took a heavy hit in December 2020 as the first really obvious impacts of the Chinese import ban took hold. Total exports plunged 100,000 m3 compared with the prior mont…
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Latest housing finance data suggests that the significant expansion in home lending is fuelling the sharp rises in property prices experienced over the last few years, and especially since…
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National dwelling approvals continued to surprise – and for many, to delight – in December, with total approvals for 2020 lifting 5.5% to 183,769 dwellings. What will have pleased many in the…