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Everyone is a winner if we focus on environmental infrastructure

The Victorian wood and fibre sector welcomes the recommendations of a parliamentary inquiry into environmental infrastructure for Victoria’s growing ....

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Victorian Timber Shortage Nailing Construction Industry to the Wall

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Victorian Forest Products Association CEO Deb Kerr believes the current timber shortage faced by the state outlines the short-sightedness of the Victorian Government’s plan to turn its back on native forestry.
In an effort to increase sustainability, the Victorian Government in 2019 announced plans to phase out native forest logging over a 30-year period. The plan is designed to protect Victorian forests, but has ultimately created a shortage in timber for housing frames, at a time when housing construction is at an all time high within the state.
“Since 1999, successive government policies have reduced the native timber harvest area by nearly 55 percent and log take by 62 percent, with the supply gap sourced from both domestically produced softwood plantation and imported timber,” she says. ....

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Unanimous Federal Court decision a major win for Victorian hardwood timber industry

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Unanimous Federal Court decision a major win for Victorian hardwood timber industry
The full bench of the Federal Court has today delivered an historic win for Australia’s sustainable native forest industries by confirming that forestry operations covered by Regional Forest Agreements provide all the environmental protections required by national environmental laws.
In a unanimous decision, the Court upheld VicForests’ appeal against a single-judge decision 12 months ago which had created significant legal uncertainty for RFAs and for the tens of thousands of forest industry jobs that the bilateral state-Commonwealth agreements underpin.
At the heart of the appeal was whether the Commonwealth EPBC Act could apply to forestry operations covered by an RFA, or whether the RFAs provide an equivalent and alternative (as VicForests maintained) regulatory framework with Commonwealth oversight to protect “Matters of National Environmental Significance”. ....

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