Latest AFPA News

Critical shortage of AFP officers a grave concern
Launch of Parliamentary Friends of Fresh Produce to champion Australia’s fresh produce industry
Industry welcomes new market access for Australian plums to Vietnam
Federal Government announces plantation grant recipients and workforce training provider on National…
Consultation on Government’s new illegal logging laws welcomed
AFP Statement 12 August
Federal police industrial action to disrupt Parliament House security
Australia’s forest industries to celebrate National Forestry Day on Tuesday 20 August 2024
Forest industries welcome new Ministerial team Collins and Chisholm and thank outgoing Watt for serv…
AFP Committed To Protecting All Australians
UN report highlights need for multi-pronged innovation to drive more sustainable forestry and timber
AFPA welcomes improved market access for Australian table grapes to Japan
Australia And Japan To Strengthen Horticulture Ties
AFPA Welcomes Newly Appointed VFPA CEO Andrew White
AFPA welcomes continued Federal Budget support for Australia’s forest industries, but greater focu…
Australian timber can help ease housing crisis with capacity to build 50,000 extra homes each year
Senate Stands Up For Plantation Forestry
AFPA welcomes strengthened laws to fight illegal logging
Increasing trust in Australian forest products across the supply chain with signing of MOU
Australian fresh produce industry delegation focussed on growing relationships with Japan
AFPA Congratulates New AFWI Board Appointments
Diana Hallam announced as AFPA’s new Chief Executive Officer
Industry leader Gavin Scurr elected as Chair of the Australian Fresh Produce Alliance
Federal Court ruling a vindication of strong native forestry governance in NSW
AFPA welcomes new funding for ABARES forestry data analysis 
Australian Government signs up to increase the use of timber in buildings by 2030
Government’s climate change advice recognises the important role of forestry and harvested wood pr…
Australia’s forest products sector will be represented at COP28 by AFPA delegation
Government’s agriculture and land sector carbon discussion paper cites farm forestry as net zero s…
AFPA congratulates Stephen Ryan ahead of retirement from HVP Plantations
Government’s Sustainable Finance Strategy must focus on nature-based technologies as a solution to…
AFPA congratulates new NFF President David Jochinke, thanks Fiona Simson
AFPA pays tribute to Ian Tyson ahead of retirement as Timberlink CEO
Australia’s fresh produce industry enroute to Vietnam to celebrate growing trade
ABARES report shows continued decline in Australia’s plantation estate
Australia’s largest hardwood plantation estate in Tasmania a stand-out asset class for new investo…
Minister Murray Watt highlights the important climate role Australia’s forests and forest sector w…
Housing Australia Future Fund can accelerate Net Zero with Timber
AFPA welcomes launch of International Sustainable Forestry Coalition
Federal Opposition Leader backs forest products sector
AFPA welcomes Adam Fennessy as new DAFF Secretary, thanks retiring Metcalfe for service
National Forestry Day – A day to celebrate Australia’s great forest products sector
National Cabinet should find ways to increase housing made from timber
Careful harvesting of native forests is the key to carbon capture
Sustainable Forestry Net in Net Zero
Forest products sector welcomes abolition of carbon market barriers for new timber plantings
More than 60 retailers participate in First Responders Day – 29 June
Australian Forest and Wood Innovations to herald new era of R&D for forest products sector