Terms of Reference

The House Standing Committee on Agriculture and Water Resources will inquire and report on:

The nature of wood supply from Australia’s plantation sector including:

Projected timber volumes available over the next 30 years and the potential grades of logs available.

The plantation wood supply available for domestic softwood processors including:

Current and future demand for logs for domestic processors; and

Any shortfall in current processing industry demand for logs.

The competitiveness of log pricing between domestic and export market.

The term of log supply contracts needed to support the processing sectors.

Opportunities to increase Australia’s wood supply, including identifying and addressing barriers to plantation establishment.

The role that state governments could have in assisting in addressing any problems identified by the work of this committee.

Make any recommendations around any code of conduct or management mode that could assist in addressing any problems identified by the work of this committee.

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Terms of Reference

An inquiry into the timber supply chain constraints in the Australian plantation sector.

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