Economy

Land tax revenue hush-up

Facts please

Facts please: Japan’s Timber Trade and Forestry http://www.jca.apc.org/jatan/eng/japan-e.html Japan is the world’s largest importer of wood, pulp, and paper products that are...

Death Denial

THERE is no point in denying it: we’re losing. Climate change denial is spreading like a contagious disease. It exists in a...

A double shock for Australia

IT’S HARDLY a surprise that the G20 finance ministers did not agree to splash cash on developing nations to help get a...

What they really mean is …

“Mr Gay said the Bell Bay Pulp Mill would take advantage of Gunns’ growing plantation timber resource.” (What they really mean is...

James Squire is coming to town …

In what could be a bit of a shake-up for landlords in Hobart, the James Squire sub-brand of Tooheys-Lion Nathan (which is...

MINISTER CALLED ON TO INSTRUCT RELEASE OF FOREST CARBON DATA IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST

The Wilderness Society is today urging forests minister David Llewellyn to instruct Forestry Tasmania to release important data relating to carbon storage...

Timber industry shows resilience to global financial crisis

Government statistics released yesterday confirm that Australia’s forest industries have remained resilient to the effects of the global economic crisis. These results...