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When Dr Philip Lowe, the RBA Governor, announced a $105 billion liquidity package for the banks on 19 March, 2020 he commented that “…to get to the other side we need a bridge…. building that bri…
When Dr Philip Lowe, the RBA Governor, announced a $105 billion liquidity package for the banks on 19 March, 2020 he commented that “…to get to the other side we need a bridge…. building that bri…
This project was developed to provide a detailed meta-analysis of Benefit-cost Analysis (BCAs) of RD&E investment undertaken within the forestry and wood processing industry over th…
In more normal times, in assessing economic news we would be commenting on the recent GDP results for the December 2019 quarter and associated measures important to the forest and wood produc…
Back a lifetime ago, at the start of March, Australia’s economic growth for the December quarter was reported at 0.5%, a little higher than most economists predicted, even if still too low to r…
In what continues to be a moving feast, the Australian dollar collapsed in February and March, with the month-end exchange rates at two-decade lows. Declines in many global currencies are ex…
This project aimed to provide forest managers with the tools to balance reduced transport costs through natural drying of roadside stocks of biofuel and of logs for chips and other wood produ…
The tragic 2019/20 bushfires in Australia have demonstrated the devastation that can be reigned on Australian communities by the rugged and natural Australian landscapes with questions n…
Private native forests across Queensland and New South Wales (NSW) are an important source of domestic timber supply upon which the Australian hardwood timber industry depends. The aim of t…