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On current trajectories, Australia faces the prospect of being consistently unable to meet demand for new housing, because of a persistent and growing gap between demand and supply of sawn s…
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Current Research
This project is aimed at improving the tolerance of Eucalyptus plantations to Teratosphaeria leaf disease (TLD) using genomics. Disease marker panels developed in this project will be use…
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The forest industry in Australia contributes to jobs and economic activity in multiple regional communities. This contribution results from the growing, management and harvesting of pla…
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The following update has been supplied by IndustryEdge from its online platform, Wood Market Edge online. All the data used and referred to here is available for download by IndustryEdge sub…
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Australia’s imports of sawn softwood rose an astounding 62.2% year-ended May 2022, lifting to 895,314 m3 for the full year. While weighted average import prices may have peaked in January, t…
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Australia’s new dwelling approvals continued to soften, declining 4.8% year-ended May 2022. After such a stellar run, it is unsurprising to find free-standing houses declining most: appr…
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Like a gigantic vessel in a vast ocean, Australia’s building activity appears to have commenced what is expected to be a slow and ponderous turn around. Building activity levels appear to be r…
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Prices for key sawn structural softwood products continued to climb in the June quarter, feeding into average prices that were around one third higher than for the June quarter of 2021. Treat…