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•L ogging Bill passes House of Reps • Multi-million-dollar bailout offer to CHH

industry against anti-forest attacks industry’s integrity against “willful misinformation”, faced a more serious threat last Wednesday when five masked anti-forestry activists entered a public safety zone in the Toolangi state forest in the early hours of the morning to dangerously disrupt harvesting operations.

“Such incidents are happening daily,” Friends of Forestry vice-president and logging contractor Jacqui Commans told T&F enews.

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FOREST workers and their communities have bandied together in Victoria to defend the state’s sustainable timber industry against “slander” and a new wave of anti-forest terrorism.

More 100 residents from timber towns such as Kinglake, Toolangi, Yarra Junction, Millgrove, Lilydale and Healesville – many of them still recovering from the Black Saturday bushfires in 2009 – last month formed a new grassroots organisation, Friends of Forestry, “out of frustration”.

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INDUSTRY NEWS

HAVE YOUR SAY

What’s the future for Queensland’s forest industries?

TIMBER Queensland and the state government have undertaken to develop a plan that will establish a road map for the future of the forest and timber industries from 2012 to 2040.

If you’ve got some ideas about the challenges facing industry and ways to manage them this is an opportunity to have a say.

Development of the plan is one of the initiatives in the government’s July to December 2012 Action Plan to grow a four-pillar economy.

There are three key inputs shaping the content of the industry plan – results of the industry survey; direct consultation with key industry organisations, industry specialists and individual businesses; and a vision and planning forum involving invited industry leaders.

These inputs will be crafted into a draft industry plan that will focus on detailing a vision for the industry in 2040, identifying

the challenges to be faced by businesses – both now and in the future – and determining what actions are needed to address those challenges.

This draft will form the basis for more extensive consultation with interested parties and the resultant Forest and Timber Industry Plan will be completed by the end of 2012.

The survey represents an opportunity for all interested parties to have their say about what the future of the Queensland forest and timber industry should look like, what are the key issues facing the individual businesses and the broader forest and timber industry, and importantly, what can be done about it.

To complete the survey (by August 31) or to find out more about the plan and its development visit www. timberqueensland.com.au

Tasmanian logs back on track TASMANIA’S rail operator is preparing to transport logs for the first time in a decade.

TasRail is in talks with Forestry Tasmania and two private firms about its goal to move at least 100,000 tonnes of logs a year.

The company’s CEO Damien

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White says trials between Burnie and Hobart in the past six months have gone well and volumes may increase.

“I don’t know what the very upside is, but we know it’s far beyond 100,000 tonnes,” Mr White said.

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INDUSTRY NEWS

‘This is a workplace safety issue that calls for government action’

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their families at night,” Mrs Commans said.

“Many Australians have fought hard for better working conditions on the worksite.

This may include a building site, a shearing shed, a supermarket, a school, an office and it definitely should include our official workplaces on harvesting coupes in our state forests.

“This is not an issue of whether you support or don’t support harvesting in native forests, this is a simple issue of workplace safety and we call on the government to take swift decisive action against these masked eco-terrorists who breached OHS standards.

“Someone is going to get killed if we don’t watch out.”

Three truck drivers including Brendan Roberts were on the harvesting coupe at 5.45am last Wednesday when the five men stormed the workplace shining torches in their faces and threatening them before being ushered from the site.

“One driver was loading a truck and had a 500kg-plus log in the grab high up in the air when the fully masked men invaded our workplace,” Mr Roberts said.

“I have a right as an Australian to work in a safe work place and I am fed up with these continued breaches which not only threaten our safety but stop us from earning an honest quid.

“As far as I am concerned it is illegal to wear a mask in public and to be honest it was really frightening as it was dark.

There were five masked men and we had no idea whether they had weapons or what they were going to do.”

Friends of Forestry has demanded that authorities, including police, government departments and Worksafe Victoria take swift action and

Forest industry defenders .. Friends of Forestry committee back row, left to right, Brett Robin (president), Jan Adams, Margaret Robin, Mark Andrews, Kersten Gentle, Graham Taylor and Angus McMahon, and front, Leah Bannerman (secretary), Martha Chandler, Cheryl Chalmers and Jacqui Commans (vice-president).

prosecute the offenders and ensure workplaces are kept safe.

Friends of Forestry president and Wesburn logging contractor Brett Robins said the atmosphere at the group’s foundation meeting was positive and full of factual information.

“We are group of like-minded people representing a broad spectrum of the community from timber workers, communities, business owners, tourism operators, 4WD enthusiasts, deer hunters and other bush users,” he said.

“Our mission is to provide factual information which will improve public awareness and education about the importance of our sustainable native timber industry and the importance of keeping our forests open for all users and activities.

“People claiming to be environmentalists are distorting the facts, photo shopping images, providing incorrect

Lisa Marty .. hard-working people put in harm’s way.

information about our forests and, worst of all, invading a designated workplace putting the safety of timber workers at risk.”

Mr Robins said no Australian deserved to work in an unsafe environment and the actions of the forest protesters were threatening the safety of timber workers who had a legal right to work and support their families.

“We urge communities to explore the truth about our sustainable timber industry and

‘We urge communities to explore the truth about our sustainable timber industry and to understand that we are not harvesting old growth forests and that we truly care about the future of our industry and the environmental benefits of forests’ – Brett Robins

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to understand that we are not harvesting old growth forests and furthermore that we truly care about the future of our industry and environmental benefits of our forests,” he said.

“If people want to protest, then they should take their argument to the politicians, rather than holding up weekend tourists at their regular protests at Healesville’s Main Street traffic lights, breaching OHS practices and persecuting hard working honest people.”

Chief executive of the Victorian Association of Forest Lisa Marty said that although it was understandable some people would have different views on forestry, it was unacceptable for them to enter a high-risk workplace in the early morning with covered faces and intimidate workers.

“I think everyone would agree that actions which are aggressive, threatening and compromise people’s safety at work should not be tolerated,” Ms Marty said.

“Forestry workers are skilled professionals who are trained to operate machinery in a safe way. Activists who invade these work sites when operations are under way put both themselves and hardworking people who are just trying to do their job in harm’s way.

“It is important that the cowardly perpetrators of these risky and senseless acts are held accountable.

“The industry calls on environmental groups to oppose illegal and unsafe protest activity and engage with forest managers and industry on their concerns.

“We call on the police, Worksafe Victoria and the state government to act with the full force of the law against those acting illegally and to endanger people’s safety at forestry workplaces.”

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INDUSTRY NEWS

Carter Holt Harvey wrestles with decision on Mount Gambier mill Seeks long-term supply and reduction in log prices

THE South Australian government has offered a multimillion-dollar bailout to the state’s major southeast timber processing plant operated by Carter Holt Harvey Australia at Mount Gambier in a bid to prop up an ailing industry.

Treasurer Jack Snelling has confirmed an offer similar to the Holden bailout in a deal that included $50 million of state taxpayers’ money.

Mr Snelling said he would leave the public to speculate on the size of the offer but would not counter suggestions the deal is likely to be in the order of about $20 million, according to a report in the Adelaide Advertiser.

He also said a buyer for forward rotations of the forests was likely within weeks.

The Opposition has called for the state government to abandon the deal, needed to prop up the ailing Budget.

The high cost of raw timber is a major pressure on Carter Holt Harvey’s business model.

The company has sent an open letter to employees saying its future in South Australia is in the hands of the state government.

The company wants a new long-term timber supply deal and a reduction in log prices.

Shadow Economic Development Minister David Ridgway told an ABC program the company had met with workers and unions last week.

He says CHH is not just posturing and that a thousand jobs are at risk.

Mr Ridgway is calling for the Premier to intervene in what he describes as a fight to the death between Carter Holt Harvey and the Treasurer Jack Snelling.

CHH says its mill facilities

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David Ridgway .. thousands of jobs at risk.

Jack Snelling .. working on assistance package

are losing millions of dollars because it cannot compete against cheap imported timber.

The company has sent a letter to its employees saying imported timber has gained a substantial slice of the market, leading to a significant decrease in timber prices. It says the government-owned Forestry SA has a monopoly on local logging rights and has continued to increase the price of raw timber.

David Ridgway says management and union representatives had met with employees.

“They locked the gates and ceased delivery so they could actually talk to the staff and laid it on the line that we are facing a very serious set of circumstances,” Mr Ridgway told the ABC. “The government just seems to be oblivious to it; they’re hell-bent on selling the forests, taking the cash and turning their back on the people of the south east. They’ve actually

gone to the government with a proposal to link the log price to the price of sawn timber, and the government has rejected that.

“Now we see there are 1000 jobs at risk, direct jobs, and many other flow-on jobs at risk. It’s time for the Premier to intervene.”

CHH says it has started discussions with the forestry union (CFMEU) and Australian Manufacturing Workers Union about the future of the mill.

Treasurer Jack Snelling says the government has been working with the company since April to develop an assistance package.

“In the past we’ve made significant financial commitments to companies such as Holden in order to protect jobs and we’re prepared to do that again with Carter Holt Harvey,” he said.

“We hope we’re in a position very soon to go back to Carter Holt Harvey with another offer

‘This is entirely related to market conditions for structural timber in Australia – the high Australian dollar, a flood of cheap imports of structural timber from overseas and the slow housing market’

of assistance.”

Mr Snelling insists the situation has nothing to do with a state plan to sell Forestry SA’s assets.

“This is entirely related to market conditions for structural timber in Australia and those market conditions are caused by the high Australian dollar, a flood of cheap imports of structural timber from overseas and the slow housing market,” he said.

Mr Snelling says it is not the role of Forestry SA to slash log prices because companies are struggling.

“Forestry SA has an independent board. Like most government enterprises, they operate at arm’s length from government and they have a statutory obligation to run their business on a commercial basis,” he said.

“They can’t go discounting their timber, their saw log, in a way that is uncommercial.”

Mr Snelling claims he cannot direct ForestrySA, a semiautonomous government corporation, to change prices.

Meanwhile, SA Opposition leader Isobel Redmond says the sale of the state’s forests should be cancelled and negotiations resumed with millers.

A mass meeting of angry southeast forest workers has threatened immediate industrial action unless the government abandons the sale process amid threats of major job losses.

Abput 700 CFMEU members met last Thursday after reports that CHH was threatening to cut 1000 jobs.

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WHAT’S ON?

AUGUST

13-15: Australian Window Association’s annual conference and exhibition.

Fenestration Australia 2012 at The Esplanade Hotel, Largest gathering of local and international organisations associated with the window industry, bringing together more than 300 delegates from right across the value chain.

Inquiries to conference secretariat on (08) 9381 9281 or email fenestration2012reg@iceaustralia. com

22-23: Carbon Forestry2012.

Auckland NZ. Forestry is New Zealand’s largest potential carbon sink and, as the ETS continues to grow in importance to NZ businesses,so does its investment future. A raft of new legislation,a dramatic drop-off in carbon trading and pricing during 2011, thsome international emissions units and uncertainty around the future alignment of New Zealand and Australia’s trading schemes has changed the landscape significantly. It’s led to uncertainty in the marketplace about the immediate future and opportunities that exist in carbon forestry.

Visit www.carbonforestryevents. com 29: Chopper-roller field day.

Miva on the Bauple-Woolooga road. Turn west off Bruce Highway, about 17 km to Munna Miva Road. (Look for the ‘field day’ signs. Time: 9 am-3 pm. Tel: (07) 5483 6535 or email pfsq @ bigpond.com

SEPTEMBER-NOVEMBER

FWPA R&DWorks seminar series: Coffs Harbour, NSW, September 4; Maryborough, Qld, September 6; Brisbane September 7; Albury, NSW, October 4; Oberon, NSW, October 31; Sydney November 1; Hobart November 29.

OCTOBER

2-4: Future Build 2012.

Melbourne Exhibition Centre.

Contact Australian Exhibitions and Conferences (03) 8672 1200 or email: mail@aec.net.au

3-4: Joint ISCs and Skills Australia conference: The Future of Work In 2011, Australia’s 11 industry skills councils and Skills Australia held their inaugural joint conference.

Join MC Kerry O’Brien, Q&A panel moderator Tony Jones and a range of industry identities to explore the future of work, and its implications for building Australia’s human capital. Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Darling Drive, Darling Harbour, NSW. 4-6: Malaysian Timber Council’s (MTC) Global WoodMart 2012, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Malaysia.

For further information go to www.globalwoodmart.my. For information about complimentary hotel accommodation and other assistance, including sponsorship invitation and application forms contact John Halkett at john. halkett@bigpond.com or +61 (0)2 9356 3826.

14-17: Australian Forest Growers conference. Gympie Civic Centre, Gympie, Qld. More than 50 speakers will present at 20 sessions. Three concurrent

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EVENTS

streams will feature growing, products and markets and integration. The middle day will feature six field trips heading in all directions from Gympie to examine local growing and processing in action. This will be followed by the presentation of the national Tree Farmer of the Year Award at the conference dinner. Visit www.afg.asn.au for further information or contact Terry Greaves on (02) 6162 9000 or email terry.greaves@afg.asn.au

30-31: ForestWorks and First Super 5th annual Industry Development Conference In 2011, Hyatt Hotel and Parliament House. Canberra. This is an important opportunity for all current and aspiring leaders of the forest, wood, paper and timber industry to engage in strategic and political debate on critical issues affecting the whole industry in Australia. This year’s conference will consider the future opportunities and challenges for manufacturing timber, wood and paper products in an advanced and multi-speed economy. The conference has been specifically scheduled to coincide with parliamentary sitting week, providing a great chance for industry players, union representatives, policy makers and MPs to gather, network and share ideas on positive future directions for the industry.

Registration inquiries contact: The Events Manager at cday@ forestworks.com.au or phone (03) 9321 3500.For further information, including announcements of speakers and topics, visit www.forestworks.com.au/ conference2012

Australia’s forest, wood, pulp and paper products industry now has a stronger voice in dealings with government, the community and in key negotiations on the industry’s future, as two peak associations have merged to form a single national association.

The Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) has been formed through the merger of the Australian Plantations Products and Paper Industry Council (A3P) and the National Association of Forest Industries (NAFI).

AFPA was established to cover all aspects of Australia’s forest industry: - Forest growing; - Harvest and haulage; - Sawmilling and other wood processing; - Pulp and paper processing; and - Forest product exporting.

For more information on the Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) or to enquire about membership , please call (02) 6285 3833.

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INDUSTRY NEWS

Fears failed imported sleepers have entered Australian market

Fungus rot blamed for derailments in New Zealand

IMPORTED hardwood sleepers similar to those now rotting on New Zealand’s KiwiRail network are believed to have entered the Australian market.

NZ rail authorites have admitted a fungus is rotting the sleepers which appear to have contributed to two derailments.

Some 7000 of 100,000 sleepers imported from Peru in the past decade have been found in varying states of decay. Many of them are on bridges or in tunnels.

Chief executive Jim Quinn said all sleepers showing signs of advanced decay had been replaced at a cost of between $250 and $1000 each.

Industry observers contacted this week believe significant amounts of the untreated

They say there is every possibility the sleepers could be used in crossarms and other structural applications which makes them a ‘ticking timebomb’

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On wrong track .. New Zealand rail system threatened by South American hardwood sleepers.

The rot sets in .. rail sleepers need replacing.

Brendan Horan .. worried about major derailments.

product have been imported from Peru by an Australian resident and masquerade as carrying FSC certification.

They say there is every possibility the sleepers could be used in crossarms and other structural applications which makes them a “ticking time bomb”.

“Here, again, is another example of the consequences of using products that provide no chain of custody documentation and fail to meet Australia’s high standards of timber treatment certification,” they said.

KiwiRail expects the replacement program for the imported sleepers to be completed early next year. But New Zealand First says all the inadequate sleepers need to be replaced right away.

This comes among recent revelations that KiwiRail’s fleet of trains is plagued with faults, including 500 Chinese rail wagons that have all had their brake pads replaced.

“I’ve got three photos of sleepers with growth sprouting

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INDUSTRY NEWS

Southeast forest workers threaten industrial action over sale proposal

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products division official Brad Coates said the meetings resolved to take industrial action if this did not happen and warned “the future of the region” is at stake.

“While we prefer a negotiated outcome, our members and communities are disappointed

‘We need serious and positive discussions, we need some relief on log prices and we think the forward sale should be deferred until all of this is sorted out’ – Brad Coates

it has come to this. We want to continue to play a positive role and are prepared to take any steps to sort this issue out,” he said.

Mr Coates said that relief on log prices was critical, citing factors such as increasing amounts of illegally dumped structural timber from overseas flooding the market, high log costs and the declining housing market.

“We believe that with the right pricing in place, our region can be leaders in value-added timber production nationally.

That should be everyone’s

Brad Coates .. need serious and positive discussion.

aspiration,” he said.

“But we need some serious and positive discussions, we need some relief on log prices and we think the forward sale should be deferred until all of this is sorted out.

“It is vital to take a stand on this issue. It is one which is being mirrored right across the country.”

The CHH Woodproducts business in Australia comprises 15 manufacturing sites and eight distribution / administration and sales centres in Australia.

Sleepers fail in New Zealand

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out of sleepers,” NZ First MP Brendan Horan said in parliaments.

Mr Brendan claims KiwiRail purchased a “dodgy” lot of South American timber railway sleepers because they were cheaper than the traditional jarrah and says those sleepers are now rotting.

“The biggest cause of derailment is track spreading, and where you get mud coming in it needs to be cleared out and replaced with ballast straight away, because otherwise the track spreads,” Mr Brendan said.

“What we have is rotting sleepers, mud slides and ballast that are not replaced.

Every week there are minor derailments.”

Mr Brendan says he has been contacted by concerned KiwiRail staff from all over the country worried about the prospect of a major derailment occurring.

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ENGINEERED WOOD

Law building courts ‘plethora’ of sustainable timber features Plywood puts its case to rubbernecks of legal aristrocacy

HOOP pine plywood benches and wall linings were stand-out building features at the official opening of Brisbane’s new $570 million Queen Elizabeth II Courts of Law. Although it will be weeks before a court case is expected to be heard in the new district and supreme courts building, the opening by the Premier Campbell Newman featured all the pomp and ceremony

Joint chief executives of Austral Plywoods Scott and Stuart Matthews with sales manager Gary Holmes (right) inspect the company’s Multiply wall linings at Brisbane’s new Courts of Law.

that are hallmarks of the legal profession.

Featuring what Queensland Governor Penelope Wensley called a “plethora” of sustainability features, the next door neighbour to the new Magistrates Court on George Street has been billed as a purpose-built facility designed to streamline legal processes.

Many of more than 300 guests at the opening were keen to examine and touch the benches and seating created from 12,000 sheets of Multiply

by Austral Plywoods, Brisbane, which use a revolutionary cross-banded engineering process.

The 2400 x 1200 sheets used for all benches and seating in every court room are thick12 mm seven-ply AC hoop pine, which was also used for the walls.

Austral Plywood sales manager Gary Holmes said the revolutionary cross-banded plywood was produced on an Italian 1.2 m lathe, representing the best of European technology.

“We used 32 mm Multiply for the seating while the benches were three layers of 18 mm Multiply making up 54 mm thick benches. With the three layers we made the middle sheet as a cross-banded ply so that when the ply was cut and joined it looked like one sheet of 54 mm ply,” Mr Holmes said.

“Combined there were about 40 sheets of 1.5 mm Multiply,

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EVENTS

Gateway to international wood markets .. chief executive of the Malaysian Timber Council Cheah Kam Huan promotes Global Wood Mart 2012.

WoodMart 2012: you get markets and a bed in KL

THE Malaysian Timber Council’s Global WoodMart 2012 will once again take centre stage at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre providing a premier one-stop selling, buying and networking opportunity for local and international temperate, boreal and tropical timber suppliers and buyers from October 4 to 6.

Among products featured will be sawn timber, plywood and panel products, timber flooring and decking and doors and windows, mouldings, furniture components and logs.

Timber supply chain company representatives and buyers from Australia and New Zealand attended in 2010; early indications suggest another Down Under delegation will be heading for Malaysia this year.

The inaugural MTC Global WoodMart in 2010 was a great success attracting more than 100 exhibitors from 19 countries

The Malaysian Timber Council is offering complimentary hotel accommodation and other assistance subjected to some terms and conditions. More information is available at www. globalwoodmart.my.

Details about more on-ground assistance to prospective buyers and e-copies of the sponsorship invitation and application forms are available from John Halkett on +61 (0)2 9356 3826 or email john. halkett@bigpond.com The inaugural MTC Global WoodMart in 2010 was considered a great success attracting more than 100 exhibitors from 19 countries and visitors, buyers and sellers from about 50 countries.

The Malaysian Timber Certification Scheme is endorsed by the Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes, the world’s largest forest certification scheme. The MTCS was the first tropical timber certification scheme in the Asia Pacific region endorsed by the PEFC.

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ISSUES

Greenpeace outed in Indonesia

Disdain for the rules of law and local custom

AMID yet more assertions that they failed to “submit to laws effective in our country”, Greenpeace is facing a grim future in Indonesia, as lawmakers and government officials in Jakarta consider taking measures to “freeze” the group, a move that would seriously imperil their very existence there.

The Consumers Alliance Greenpeace Monitoring Project (CAGP) has been in place for two years now, and has been reporting on Greenpeace’s efforts to kill jobs and efforts by developing nations to bring their citizens out from the depths of poverty.

“This latest action by the government of Indonesia is a step in the right direction, and

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Patrick Moore .. Greenpeace’s efforts parasitical on political agendas.

is finally coming to an end.

Greenpeace has consistently sought to greenmail local business and vilify Indonesians’ livelihoods through campaigns that are funded on the backs of foreign donations.

“What’s most egregious about Greenpeace’s actions in Indonesia isn’t their campaigns – it’s their disdain for the rule of

Greenpeace has sought to greenmail local business and vilify Indonesians’ livelihoods through campaigns funded on the backs of foreign donations

law and local customs.”

Officials claim that Greenpeace has received, and failed to report, foreign funding – mainly from governments and gambling companies – which are illegal in Indonesia.

“As a foreign funding source, this is a stunning violation of Indonesian law and there is now the very real possibility that Greenpeace could see its permit revoked,” Andrew Langer, spokesman for the CAGP said.

“Indonesians have fortunately shown much courage in recent years standing up to Greenpeace,” Mr Langer said.

Patrick Moore, one of the original co-founders of Greenpeace, said in a Washington Times interview this month that Greenpeace’s efforts were largely counterproductive and parasitical on political agendas such as trade disputes.

“Their vision of a world run on wind and solar energy is a green dream that is actually a green fantasy that is rapidly turning into a green nightmare for ratepayers in the countries that have provided exorbitant subsidies for these technologies which don’t even work most of the time, and then they claim nuclear energy is too expensive.

“I have said many times that the task of successfully incorporating environmental values into the economic and social fabric of civilisation is far more difficult than popularising those values in the first place.

“Sustainable development, or sustainability, requires finding solutions for environmental issue that do not compromise our ability to feed ourselves, provide the energy required for transport, industry, and infrastructure, and obtain the materials (timber and minerals) to build the infrastructure.”

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ENGINEERED WOOD

Section of the new Brisbane Courts of Law featuring sustainable timber fittings.

Sustainable plywood feature of law courts

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which gave a beautiful edge to the work.”

Mr Newman thanked the contractors “whose sweat” created the building, the architects who designed it and, in a throwback to his past career, implored, “Let’s not forget the engineers.”

The 19-floor complex, which has a capacity for 45 courtrooms and accommodation for 68 judges, took almost four years to construct.

In front of 300 guests, including some from the United Kingdom and New Zealand, Queensland’s honoured judiciary and the legal community, Governor

Wensley declared the court house, named in honour of Her Majesty in her Jubilee year, opened.

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EVENTS

Brisbane Timber Industry Getting into Timber In the action ..Bris Hoo-Hoo Club 218 has entered dustry H bane oo Holden Kingswoo -Hoo Club 218’ s ’77 d Queensl the 2012 Variety Club of and Varie is ready for the 2012 ty Dalby on e the Dar Club Bush Bash lin from N or g Downs to th Queen Queensland Bush Bash to raise sland.

Mackay in funds for disadvantaged children and has purchased a veteran Bush Bash performer – a 1977 Holden Kingswood.

The Variety Bush Bash in the club’s major children’s charity event this year.

Please support it and show how the forest and forest products industry can enrich the lives of underprivileged children.

Your sponsorship will attract wide media coverage and is tax deductible.

We sincerely thanks the following sponsors: Gold sponsors Peter and Carolyn Mort, The Governor of Queensland Pen elope Wensley ‘flag The Palms. the start of Brisban s’ e Timber Industry Hoo-Hoo Club’s Variety Bush Bas h project for children ’s charities during World Forestry Day Silver sponsors celebrations in Bris bane. Looking on are committee members Alan Jon es (club presiden Don Towerton and t), Kennedys Timbers, Tim Evans.

Queensland Sawmills (John Crooke).

Bronze sponsors Alan Jones, Trade Builders, Thora Wholesale Timbers, HQPlantations Pty Ltd Contributing sponsors John and Lorraine Muller; Bill Philip; CGU Insurance, Brisbane; Colin Wilson; Bank of Queensland, Ashgrove and Sunnybank; Austbrokers Premier Insurance, Brisbane; Brisbane Hoo-Hoo Timber Industry Club 218 Inc; Tim Evans (Coast to Coast Pacific); Timber&Forestry enews; TimTech Chemicals; Wilson Timbers; Asian-Pacific Marketing; A Class Business Finance; RACQ Caloundra; Contract Electrics Pty Ltd; Eden & Son Body Works; Advanced Timber Systems (Ian Watkins); Pacific Premium Funding Pty Ltd; Chancellors Chartered Accountants; Mark Kapper; Tableland Timbers; Skyline Building Supplies; Zenith Timber; Colin Galley; Steel Pacific; ITreat Timber; Frank Withey; Anderssen Lawyers; IVS Australia; Ringwood & Ply; Slacks Hardwood; Bobbie Thomson; Independent Verification Services Pty Ltd.

Brisbane Hoo-Hoo Timber Industry Club 218 president Alan Jones makes a night time check of the club’s 1977 Kingwood Holden while camping in central Queensland.

Country school children flock to the fun and games during visits by cars in the 2012 Variety Bush Bash.

Hoo-Hoo car co-pilot Tim Evans didn’t go undetected in a clown’s wig as he welcomed entrants to the Hoo-Hoo camp fire on the Bush Bash run.

For more information and to discuss sponsorship options contact one of the committee members:

Alan Jones 0419 754 681 Don Towerton 0428 745 455 Tim Evans 0417 726 741 Jim Bowden 0401 312 087

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Home and hosed .. Tim Evans hoists the flags after washing HooHoo car No 253 on its return from the Dalby-to-Mackay Variety Bush Bash.

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EVENTS

Grand finish for Hoo-Hoo Bashers Car 253 completes 4000 km Variety charity run

By JIM BOWDEN Photos by TIM EVANS

SPIRITS were high and there were memories aplenty of the happy, smiling faces of hundreds of grateful outback children when Brisbane HooHoo Timber Industry Club 218 drivers crossed the finish line in Mackay after a 4000 km journey in the Queensland Variety Bush Bash.

The club’s 1977 Holden Kingswood entered the sugar city on August 11 after a 10day run from Dalby on the Darling Downs in an adventure that so far has raised more than $18,000 for underprivileged kids.

“Sure, it was a lot of fun, but really when you see the faces of these children light up as you drive into the towns you realise what it’s all about,” said Alan Jones, club president and codriver.

“And the teachers from the schools and the country folk from the show societies, rodeo committees, pubs, town halls who came out to welcome us in grand style touched our hearts.”

The Hoo-Hoo car No. 253 was finally garaged at Caboolture north of Brisbane with 5148.2 km on the clock.

“It was a sensational experience; Variety really does get to the ‘coal face’ of doing it for kids,” said Tim Evans who swapped piloting roles with Alan Jones on the journey.

“I saw more than one adult fighting back tears as ‘liberty swings’ and teaching aids were handed to the children.

“Will we do it again next year for the kids? You bet!”

The Variety Club of Queensland has congratulated all fundraisers on the Bash effort from Cunningham Street, Dalby, to Blue Water Quay, Mackay.

Mackay was reached after a beautiful drive inland from

Clairview to Grasstree Beach

Alan Jones said he was happy

Made it .. Brisbane Hoo-Hoo Car No. 253 passes the finish line in Mackay with drivers Alan Jones and Tim Evans on board.

where Alligator Creek school provided lunch and a fantastic crowd enjoyed the opening of an all-ages playground.

Organisers said without doubt the 2012 Cotton and Cane Variety Bash had been an intrepid, extraordinary and fantastic adventure with a heart.

“Variety, the children’s charity, thanks everyone involved – XXXX Gold, the RAAF, the RACQ, Eventrans, Fusion Water, the Moultrie Group, our officials, the schools we visited, the P&C Associations who fed and watered us, the pubs, showgrounds, town halls and communities who welcomed us and last but by no means least our bashers,” they said.

“It has been an amazing 4000 km journey and we thank you from the bottom of our heart for joining us in it.”

Enjoying a community-hosted ‘bush bash’ dinner somewhere in the outback .. Hoo-Hoo pilots Tim Evans and Alan Jones.

to announce the first gold sponsorship of $3000 from Club 218 members Peter and Carolyn Mort of The Palms on the Sunshine Coast which would add to an impressive list of industry sponsors and

‘Sure, it was a lot of fun, but really when you see the faces of these children light up as you drive into the towns you realise what it’s all about’ – Alan Jones, president, Brisbane Hoo-Hoo Timber Industry Club 218 and Bush Bash co-driver

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take funds raised by the club to more than $18,000.

“What about people like this?

They’re terrific. All our sponsors deserve all the accolades for contributing to this worthy cause at a time when the timber industry is doing it tough,” Alan Jones said.

Welcome back home, brothers.

You did us proud.

Gold sponsor ($3000): Peter and Carolyn Mort, The Palms.

Silver sponsors ($2000): Kennedys Timbers, Queensland Sawmills (John Crooke).

Bronze sponsors ($1000): Alan Jones, Trade Builders, Thora Wholesale Timbers, HQPlantations Pty Ltd Contributing sponsors: John and Lorraine Muller; Bill Philip; CGU Insurance, Brisbane; Colin Wilson; Bank of Queensland, Ashgrove and Sunnybank; Austbrokers Premier Insurance, Brisbane; Brisbane Hoo-Hoo Timber Industry Club 218 Inc; Tim Evans (Coast to Coast Pacific); Timber&Forestry enews; TimTech Chemicals; Wilson Timbers; Asian-Pacific Marketing; A Class Business Finance; RACQ Caloundra; Contract Electrics Pty Ltd; Eden & Son Body Works; Advanced Timber Systems (Ian Watkins); Pacific Premium Funding Pty Ltd; Chancellors Chartered Accountants; Mark Kapper; Tableland Timbers; Skyline Building Supplies; Zenith Timber; Colin Galley; Steel Pacific; ITreat Timber; Frank Withey; Anderssen Lawyers; IVS Australia; Ringwood & Ply; Slacks Hardwood; Bobbie Thomson; Independent Verification Services Pty Ltd. Sponsorship options are still open and can be discussed with committee members Alan Jones 0419 754 681, Don Towerton 0428 745 455, Tim Evans 0417 726 741, or Jim Bowden 0401 312 087.

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INDUSTRY NEWS

Logging Bill welcomed but still seen as a threat to foreign trade Indonesia, other traders must be consulted: Julia Bishop

AUSTRALIA’S House of Representatives has passed a bill aimed at stopping illegallylogged timber imports.

The passing of the Illegal Logging Prohibition Bill in the lower house has been welcomed by the Greens Party, but Opposition deputy leader and foreign affairs spokesperson Julie Bishop told parliament the government bill was “all well and good”, but it raised foreign relations and World Trade Organisation compatibility questions.

Ms Bishop said Indonesia was rightly concerned about lack of consultation.

Canada had complained about unreasonable burdens being imposed on its industry and New Zealand had warned that its industry, which is based almost entirely on plantation timber, could be hurt.

Papua New Guinea and Malaysia were also unhappy.

Ms Bishop said the coalition would support the bill in principle, but would move an amendment to delay its implementation until 2015 so stakeholders could be consulted properly and regulations developed.

She feared the lag between the basic measure and the development of regulations meant prosecutions could be launched – with fines up to $33,000 for individuals and $165,000 for corporations – before the offences had been defined.

While Ms Bishop and environment spokesman Greg Hunt said they’d support the bill in principle, South Australian Liberal Jamie Briggs said it was “a terrible, terrible piece of legislation” which he couldn’t support.

Mr Briggs said the measure

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MICHAEL O’CONNOR

CHRISTINE MILNE

was part of a “Green crusade through trade policy”, with another example being the disruption of the live cattle trade to Indonesia.

He said the government should stop acting like “a green deputy sheriff in the region”.

Green Adam Bandt said half the logging in vulnerable areas of the world was believed to be illegal. He said the practice hurt the environment, encouraged corruption and restrained development.

Mr Bandt said the bill was a significant and welcome step, which needed more clarity, and the Greens might move amendments in the Senate.

Greens Senator Christine Milne says the legislation needs to be strengthened. She says for too long consumer countries, including Australia, have contributed to illegal logging in vulnerable forest regions.

“Both the timber industry and environmental organisations agree that the definition of illegal logging should be better explained,” Senator Milne said in a statement.

“We need due diligence so that corruption doesn’t allow logging to continue. We need regular compliance audits in the bill to ensure that our standards are upheld.”

The Opposition says the government needs to consult further with Indonesia and other trading partners before passing the bill, which is likely to pass the upper house with the support of the Greens.

CFMEU national secretary Michael O’Connor says thousands of timber, furniture and pulp and paper workers, whose jobs are under threat, are relying on the illegal logging bill to pass without delay.

“Workers, their families and their communities are holding on for grim life in the face of imports that unfairly undercut them. They expect urgent action from their representatives,” Mr O’Connor said.

“The cost advantage that imported manufactured illegally logged wood products unfairly enjoy over manufactured products that utilise legal timber is conservatively estimated

to be 20% of the total cost of

‘Thousands of timber, furniture and pulp and paper workers, whose jobs are under threat, are relying on the illegal logging bill to pass without delay’ – Michael O’Connor

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Canadian student calls in a smart way too reduce forest fires threat

Landholders, hikers can snap pictures of fuel build-up

WHEN it comes to predicting and reducing the threat of wildfires in Canada, there’s something the maps and satellite and aerial pictures that detail British Columbia’s expansive forests don’t show.

Below the forest canopy sits the so-called fuel for forest fires – the grass, branches, dead trees, needles and other materials that will burn if the forest ignites.

But it’s difficult to assess the fire risk without knowing how much fuel, and what type, exists in a particular area – a problem researchers in Vancouver hope an experimental smartphone app could one day help solve.

University of British Columbia graduate student Colin Ferster is testing an app (application software) he designed that will let smartphone users – from landowners to hikers to local park officials – document the fuel risks while in the province’s forests.

The app shows users pictures of various fuels and asks them to compare those pictures with their own observations. They’ll also be asked to snap photos from their smartphone camera.

The entire package is then sent back to Mr Ferster, along with GPS data he can use to create detailed maps of potential fuel risks.

“We’re normally using satellites and air photos to make maps of forests, and those are providing a really good picture from the top looking down, so we’re getting the tree tops but we’re not getting a big picture of what’s happening at the ground level,” Mr Ferster explained.

“That’s why measurements with

Forest watch .. satellites don’t provide the bigger picture on threat of fires.

smartphones could be a really useful source of information.”

He has been field testing the app this summer in the province’s Okanagan region, which is among the areas of BC that face a perennial threat of forest fires.

He said volunteer testers have been able to use the app, currently written for the iPhone, to identify potential fire risks.

Mr Ferster hopes his research will one day put it in the hands of the public, which he said will accomplish two things.

First, such an app could help improve existing data on

‘Satellites and air photos are providing a good picture from the top looking down, but we’re not getting a big picture of what’s happening at the ground level’

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Smart phone .. a new way to dial in build up of forest fuels.

fuel risks, allowing everyone from community foresters to provincial fire officials to better assess and mitigate forest fire threats.

“Fire managers need to decide where to use their resources, and that’s why better fuel maps can be beneficial, to provide more information for those types of people to make effective decisions,” he said.

Second, he hopes the app

would serve as a public engagement tool, teaching users to identify forest risks and take steps to reduce them, particularly for landowners.

“I think different users would use the app differently, depending on whether it’s someone using it in their own backyard versus a park manager,” he said.

“There’s a homeowner who can maybe cut the grass, clear brush and branches, maybe hire an arborist to do some thinning. And then there are community foresters, so these maps could provide another sort of information for them to effectively consider these kinds of things at the community level.”

Mr Ferster notes the app is currently experimental and he can’t predict when the technology might be available to the public.

British Columbia’s wildfire seasons vary widely from year to year. Last year was one of the slowest on record, while the year before saw 331,000 ha scorched by nearly 1700 fires.

The most expensive season in the past decade was in 2009, when more than 3000 fires cost the province more than $383 million to fight.

And this isn’t the only province or territory to deal with major forest fires. In Ontario, for example, fires burn an average of 128,000 ha of land each year.

Last year, 1300 fires burned more than 630,000 ha of land across the province. It marked the largest area burned in the past 50 years, costing that province $230 million — more than twice the yearly average.

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INTERNATIONAL FOCUS

Architects now at the cutting edge of high timber buildings

A TALL building with a structural frame fashioned from wood?

If this is indeed a dream, it may be about to come true in the Canadian province of British Columbia.

In the northern town of Prince George, for example, the provincial government plans to raise a 10-storey tower intended to demonstrate the viability of using forest products to do the job of heavy lifting monopolised, until now, by steel and concrete.

And last spring, Vancouver architect Michael Green (a key Canadian student and promoter of new wood applications) unveiled a scheme for a 30-storey tower held aloft by a timber frame.

Mr Green is convinced that putting up a safe, sturdy large building of this kind in Vancouver is now possible, given recent advances in the fabrication of very strong wooden structural members.

And he believes that doing so is also ecologically desirable: Trees, at least in Canada, are resources that are almost infinitely renewable.

Interest in these engaging matters is hardly limited to British Columbia. Over the next several months, the three principals in the Torontobased office of Williamson Chong Architects (WCA) will be travelling in Europe and Asia to scout out what leading-edge researchers, manufacturers

‘What’s exciting about these new wood technologies is that they are being utilised abroad at really large, institutional scales’

Enthuisastic about the ‘muscle’ of wood .. Canadian architects Shane Williamson, Donald Chong and Betsy Williamson.

and designers abroad are doing with wood.

The journeys of WCA’s Shane Williamson, Betsy Williamson and Donald Chong will be powered by the $50,000 grant from the Canada Council’s prestigious 2012 Professional Prix de Rome in Architecture, which they won earlier this summer.

[The council’s other important architectural prize this year, the $10,000 Ronald J. Thom Award for Early Design Achievement, went to Toronto-based Paul Raff Studio, a firm noted for its environmentally sustainable projects].

“Our interest in wood follows from a real contemporary stream associated with notions of sustainability,” Shane Williamson says.

“To see even the most general charts of the embedded energy of wood, compared to materials such as concrete and steel, is to be immediately [persuaded] that it’s a renewable resource with the lowest carbon footprint – a really fantastic material.”

The nuts-and-bolts work of Michael Green, and the increasing availability of super-muscular wooden building components that rival

Connected to wood .. William Chong Architects connects floors in this award-winning design using a sculpted, curving stair formed of thin, CNC-cut plywood panels.

concrete and steel in strength and grace under pressure, also inspire WCA’s upcoming investigations.

Mr Williamson has high hopes, especially, for the future of cross-laminated timber, a powerful product that resembles plywood.

“It’s what people are talking about right now,” Mr. Williamson said. “It is produced in manufacturing plants with great precision. You end up with a fairly extraordinary system that can produce the equivalent of homogenous wood panels at tremendous scales – more than

15 m, for example.

“Manufacturing may be away from a building site, and [CLT elements] are assembled in a very dumb way. There are very large screws, for example, 305 mm long, and the whole system is clipped and screwed into place, reducing the construction time to days or weeks, compared to months.

“What’s very interesting about CLT is that it is a material with a much lower embedded energy, a smaller carbon footprint, than concrete, and you also get a much lighter system.”

Of course, WCA’s enthusiasm is not just theoretical; the principals hope their conversations with designers and manufacturers elsewhere will nourish their labour back home in Canada.

Mr Williamson explained: “What’s exciting about these new wood technologies is that they are being utilised [abroad] at really large, institutional scales. This is a work that, even as a small practice, we hope to get into. We’re actively looking to expand the body of our work to a larger field, and we’d love to do so through the lens of our own interest in technology.”

Mr Williamson readily admits that he and his partners have a lot to learn about wood, which is exactly the reason they are going to places where the use of industrial-strength forest products in large-scale contemporary architecture has been a focus of research and successful experimentation for some years.

“Although this is new terrain,” Mr. Williamson says, “we are looking to find our place within it.”

– The Globe and Mail

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Chopper Roller Field Day Wednesday 29th August

A demonstration of cost‐effective thinning in over‐stocked spotted gum regrowth forest. The chopper roller is used to cut and flatten woody debris in strips through dense regrowth forest, creating access for management activities between the strips. The main advantage of the chopper roller is improving access for thinning out the retained forest between strips. In the right circumstances the chopper roller can also improve the economics of thinning, improve access for fire management and speed‐up the breakdown of large woody harvest debris. The chopper roller is highly manoeuvrable and, with appropriate forest management practices can help landholders improve the productivity and health of their regrowth

Location: Miva on the Bauple Woolooga Road, turn west off Bruce Hwy , approx 17km to Munna Miva Road. (Look for the ‘Field Day’ signs on Bauple Woolooga Road ) Time: 9.00am ‐ 3.00pm RSVP: pfsq @bigpond.com or Ph: 54836535 What to bring: Bring along a packed lunch, a water bottle and a chair. Morning tea will be provided. You will also need to wear closed shoes.

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Nominations Excellence :: Recognition :: Celebration The Queensland Timber Industry Awards are an important means of highlighting excellence in our industry and rewarding organisations who are leading the way in terms of service, innovation and commitment to improving both their business and the industry as a whole. The gala evening when these awards are presented is the only event of its kind; it provides a platform to celebrate our industry, our state and recognise our top performers.

This evening is set for Saturday 3 November 2012 at Victoria Park Function Centre, Brisbane.

To maintain the credibility of these awards and therefore the prestige and honour they represent for finalists and winners, the judging criteria for 2012 have been adjusted to reflect recent ideals and trends as well as give greater weight to operational areas of importance. The criteria for each category is available to view on the website, www.tabma.com.au - Queensland - Information Sheets - 2012 QTI Awards Criteria.

Award Categories 2012 

Best Specialist Timber Merchant

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Best Frame & Truss Operation (Metro)

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Best Building Materials Centre (Metro)

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Best Frame & Truss Operation (Regional)

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Best Building Materials Centre (Regional)

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Best Timber Manufacturing Operation

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Best Timber Wholesale Operation

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Best Sawmilling Operation

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Best Specialist Service Operation

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Trainee of the Year

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Best Training Culture

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Apprentice of the Year

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Best Wholesale Sales Representative

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Recognising Women In Forest & Timber

If you wish to nominate please visit www.tabma.com.au - Queensland - News and Events - 2012 QLD Timber Industry Awards Nomination Form and complete an entry for each nomination. All nominations will be kept confidential and only be seen by TABMA Queensland management and judges. Nominations close 15 June 2012.

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