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2006 Articles

February

Equipment set ablaze

Snowy River Mail

22 February

Timber houses greener: forest industry

Philip Hopkins

The Age

20 February

Furniture a big offender in $450m of imports using illegally logged timber

Philip Hopkins

The Age

3 February

Call to revisit old-fashioned wood floors

Bill Pheasant

The Australian Financial Review

3 February

 

March

Better forest management has key role in combatting climate change says U.N.

World Business Council for Sustainable Development

30 March

Special Report: The logging trade

The Economist

25 March

Sawmill safety

Eildon Standard

8 March

Timber trucks lift road bills

www.standard.net.au/articles

6 March

April

Housing red tape slashed

Herald Sun

18 April

Green logging solution gets the chop

Herald Sun

18 April

Parroting politics

Herald Sun

11 April

Timber groups invest heavily to stay at the cutting edge and Willmott deal offers growth in Victoria

Philip Hopkins

The Age

10 April

The green backers

Greg Bearup

Good Weekend

8 April

Green groups misusing charity status

Catherine Murphy

The Australian Financial Review

5 April

May

Sawmill workers stranded

John Masanauskas

Herald Sun

26 May

Forest and Wood body seeks growth

Philip Hopkins

The Age

22 May

Forest industry can't see wood for the (imported) trees

Philip Hopkins

The Age

17 May

Timber! Export boom nears

George Lekakis

Herald Sun

16 May

Timber sale gets strong price growth for coffers

Philip Hopkins

The Age

15 May

The reclining fortunes of furniture makers

Peter Roberts

The Australian Financial Review

2 May

Forestry out of the woods for investors and Illegal wood floods into Australia

The Age

1 May

Extension granted for wood floors

The Australian Financial Review

1 May

June

Wood value inaccurate in carbon count

The Land

29 June

Less land clearing, emission target met

The Land

29 June

The final cut

Andrew Rule

The Weekend Australian

24 June

Have a Heart, or Business Suffers

Katherine Teh-White

The Age

22 June

Timber talk too simple

Mark Poynter

The Age

21 June

Timber newcomer goes for green appeal

Damien Lynch

The Australian Financial Review

20 June

Timber sale not much chop, says industry

Philip Hopkins

The Age

12 June

Timber industry steps up campaign for native forest

Philip Hopkins

The Age

7 June

Tree plan to 'save industry'

Jane Bunce

www.news.com.au

2 June

July

Farming body blasts investment schemes

Philip Hopkins

The Age

18 July

Investors warned of farm woes

Geoff Easdown

Herald Sun

12 July

Furnished with a fault: timber to take on the U.S

Philip Hopkins

The Age

11 July

High timber auction prices go against grain for sawmills

Philip Hopkins

The Age

10 July

Industry bolsters its market role

Philip Hopkins

The Age

10 July

Forest expects strong growth

Tracy Lee

The Australian Financial Review

4 July

Seeing the wood waste from the trees

Andrew Lang

The Age - opinion piece

3 July

August

Timber industry levy row

Kate Adamson

The Weekly Times

30 August

Industry seeks 40-year plan for forestry

Philip Hopkins

The Age

28 August

Felling a dam shame

Sarah Wotherspoon

Herald Sun

28 August

Lost in the forest

Editorial - Alastair Woodard

Sunday Herald Sun

13 August

Blackfella, whitefella: revisiting Jackson's Track

Penelope Monger

ABC Online News

10 August

Clare Wood Yard the first in SA to be certified

Turn up the Heat - Clare

 

September

Illegal loggers put pressure on genuine article

The Australian

30 September

Facts on Parrots and Redgum agreement

Letters to the Editor

Sunraysia Daily

23 September

Logger scores win in new green zone

Mathew Dunckley

The Australian Financial Review

19 September

Driver hire law queried

John Masanauskas

Herald Sun

19 September

Blueprint raises cost of water to drive reforms

Misha Schubert

The Age

18 September

The great green divide

Jason Dowling

The Sunday Age

17 September

Time to sort the wood from the trees

Tricia Caswell - Opinion Piece

The Age

12 September

*Letters in response to this article

Forest plan leaves members stumped

Paul Sellars

The Weekly Times

6 September

October

Gliding into chip trouble

Michelle Read

MX

25 October

Save old growth forests

David Hall - Letter to the editor

The Age

Business - pg 10

No end to logging in catchments - Water strategy avoids thorny issue

Liz Minchin

The Age

20 October

Timber companies join origins debate

Leon Gettler

The Age

19 October

Loggers fear forests backflip

VAFI CEO, Tricia Caswell - Opinion piece

The Australian Financial Review

17 October

Ferguson calls for end to timber industry land grabs

Philip Hopkins

The Age

16 October

Strzelecki logs pact

Herald Sun

14 October

All about management

Chris Enright - forest scientist

MX

13 October

Hallmark Oaks receives award for worker safety

Snowy RIver Mail

11 October

Cardboard war gets more intense on several fronts

Leonie Wood

The Age

5 October

Ferguson stands up for forestry spy tactics

Matthew Warren

The Australian

3 October

Family first out to foil Greens

Duncan Hughes

The Australian Financial Review

3 October

Chips are down for old-growth forest industry

Rod Myer

The Age

2 October

Australia urged to step in as China stokes illegal logging

Greg Roberts

 

November

Fired up forests have more impact than loggers

Mark Poynter

The Age

23 November

Timber mill cuts a greener future

Claire Heaney

Herald Sun

23 November

Bush comes to shove on alpine ban

Matilda Abey

The Weekly Times

22 November

Angry farmers make a stand

Sarah Wotherspoon & Jacqueline Freegard

Herald Sun

21 November

Rural anger hits the streets

Duncan Hughes

The Australian Financial Review

21 November

Liberals pledge on native timber

Philip Hopkins

The Age

20 November

Pledge to protect forests

Peter Ker & Liz Minchin

The Age

20 November

Bracks saves jobs...and trees

Mathew Dunkley

The Weekend Australian Financial Review

18 November

Timber industry is heading in the right direction

Glen Kile

The Age

18 November

Timber workers in threat of 'jihad'

Rick Wallace

The Australian

16 November

Logging jobs price of deals

Paul Sellers

The Weekly Times

15 November

Timber body fears deals

Sarah Wotherspoon & Ellen Whinnett

Herald Sun

15 November

Apple Isle bitten by the Greens

Rene Hidding - OPINION

The Weekly Times

15 November

Forest custody makes wood traceable

Philip Hopkins

The Age

15 November

Letters to the Editor

The Weekly Times

15 November

Forests making a comeback

Reuters - WORLD

Herald Sun

15 November

Environmental Sustainability Award to ITC Heyfield

Time-Spectator

14 November

Greens decry ALP deal with shooters

Duncan Hughes

The Australian Financial Review

13 November

Labor deal with Greens

Ellen Whinnett

Herald Sun

11 November

Letters to the Editor

The Age

9 November

Bracks warned on greenhouse effects of native forest logging

Rachel Kleinman

The Age

8 November

OH & S Award to Hallmark Oaks

Snowy River Mail

8 November

   

 

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