Commercial plantations are the future of Australia’s timber supply and long-term forestry jobs.
Already, more than 90 percent of Australia’s construction timber is provided by pine plantations1. With the right government investment and policy, we can grow and reconfigure our plantations to produce reliable wood for all our needs including construction materials, and increase jobs by manufacturing new wood products, and replace the small volume of timber that is produced from environmentally harmful native forest logging.
https://www.forestfutures.org.au/our_forests_future