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$600m plan to protect native forests, deliver cheaper housing, create jobs and slash emissions

March 03, 2025

ACBF’s Forest Futures Campaign has commenced a hard-hitting advertising campaign to launch its election policy platform – a comprehensive plan to protect our native forests from logging, create regional jobs and boost Australia’s plantation timber supplies to tackle the housing crisis.

'Most important economic policy opportunity available'

February 20, 2025

An excerpt from Dr Ken Henry's speech at the 2025 Ann Moyal Lecture at the National Library of Australia.

Plan to bring the timber industry into the 21st century would foster a manufacturing jobs renaissance in regional Australia

February 04, 2025

A new strategy to secure long-overdue reform of the Australian timber industry would provide protection against supply chain disruption in construction, foster a manufacturing jobs renaissance in regional Australia and accelerate efforts to tackle the housing crisis, according to a policy paper released today...

Tasmanian Government sending forestry down perilous path

January 31, 2025

The Tasmanian Liberal Government and Australian Forest Products Association are threatening the future of the state’s forestry industry by continuing on the path of loss-making native forest logging, instead of securing its future with stable plantation timber production, carbon storage, and support for timber...

Polling reveals voter support for a new National Forest Policy

January 17, 2025

Voters in five key battleground seats have backed an end to native forest logging while strongly supporting investment in new timber plantations, wood product manufacturing and funding for forest management jobs, including improved fire management.