Queensland Parliamentary Friends of the Forest & Timber Industry Network Launch
Event Type:
Cocktail Function
Date:
Wednesday 27 February 2019
Location:
Premiers Hall, Queensland Parliament House
Event Description
Registrations for this event are now closed.
Cocktail Function 6.30 - 8.00pm
Dress: Business Attire
Event Program
Registrations for this event are now strictly closed.
Timber Queensland, with approval from the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland is establishing a ‘Parliamentary Friends of the Queensland Forest and Timber Industry’ network. This network will act as a focal point for building greater awareness and support for the state’s forest and timber industry within Parliament.
Our industry supports 10,000 direct jobs and a further 15,000 indirect jobs across the state with an annual turnover of over $3 billion per annum. It is also a renewable and carbon friendly industry that can generate multiple economic, social and environmental benefits with significant opportunities for growth.
Accordingly, it is imperative that a bi-partisan approach is taken from both the ALP and LNP with respect to promoting these opportunities and developing sound forest industry policy. Timber Queensland is pleased that Bruce Saunders, Member for Maryborough (ALP) and Tony Perrett, Member for Gympie (LNP) will be joint co-chairs of the network
Peak industry body Timber Queensland plans to support the network via one to two key events each year and to regularly update network members of industry developments and policy issues.
The inaugural event will be held on Wednesday 27 February 2019 in the Premiers Hall, Parliament House. We strongly encourage members of Queensland's forest and timber industry to attend the event to showcase the strength and diversity of the entire industry supply chain to both metropolitan and regional sitting Members of Parliment.
Tickets
Timber Queensland members are encouraged to send up to five staff members to attend for free.
Non-member tickets are $30 per person. Queensland members of TABMA (Timber & Building Merchants Association), FTMA (Frame & Truss Manufactuers), IFA (Institute of Foresters of Australia), AFG (Australian Forest Growers) and EWPAA (Engineered Wood Products Association of Australasia), ATFA (Australian Timber Flooring Association) and WFTN (Women in Forest & Timber Network) are all invited and encouraged to attend.
Event Sponsors
For those attending the event it is also an opportunity to learn more about the work of businesses such as HQPlantations, the largest plantation company in Queensland and Hyne Timber, one of Australia’s largest producers of sawn softwood timber products. Plus they will meet the people behind growth enterprises including ecoCottages a manufacturer of quality modular homes that cost less and deliver more through the use of cypress pine as a natural and sustainable choice and DTM Timber who have been making quality hardwood building products and supplying power poles to the electricity distribution industry for over 25 years.
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Wednesday 20 February 2019
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