Carbon Guides: Timber & Forestry’s Role In Reducing Emissions

As the focus on reducing operational carbon shifts to embodied carbon emissions, the forest and wood products industry stands at the forefront of sustainable solutions and plays a crucial role in achieving a ‘net-zero’ built environment.
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Indigenous Commercial Forestry Opportunities: East Arnhem, northern Australia

Project number: VNC506-1920 Download executive project summary here There is growing interest in the commercial potential of northern Australia’s vast Indigenous owned and managed forest estate. At the same time there remain strong aspirations among Indigenous elder…

FWPA Report Developing a method to survey for giant freshwater crayfish using eDNA
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Project number: VNC457-1718 (Sub-report 3) The giant freshwater crayfish (…

FWPA Report Indigenous Commercial Forestry Opportunities
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Project number: VNC506-1920 Download executive project summary here There…

FWPA Report Optimising productivity of hardwood plantations
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Project number: VNC516-1920 This study aimed to improve the knowledge under…

Optimising Nutrition Management of Hardwood Plantations for Sustainable Productivity & Profitability
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Project number: PNC478-1819 Field research during recent decades and liter…

Transforming the forest & Wood products Industry

FWPA is a not-for-profit industry services company – sometimes referred to as an RDC (Rural Research and Development Corporation) – funded by the Federal Government, member levies and research grants. 

We collaborate with government and industry stakeholders to determine strategy, invest in effective and relevant R&D and deliver programs designed to grow the market for forest and wood products, increase productivity and profitability across the value chain and ensure positive environmental and social outcomes.

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Economy is growing, but barely
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The economy dodged another bullet in the December quarter with GDP up 0.2% ove…

Monthly CPI continues to show inflation easing
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Australia’s monthly inflation data – delivered through the Consumer Price I…

Housing Approvals – Still searching for the positives
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Australia’s dwelling approvals data continues to underperform demand, wit…

Housing finance measures deteriorate
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A few months of momentum in shifting housing finance back into positive growt…

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AFWI forestry research centres to support industry

FWPA welcomes the recent Government announcements and strong support across the industry for the establishment and upcoming official launch of Australian Forest and Wood Innovations (AFWI).   AFWI is a national initiative and collaboration between the Australian Go…

FWPA RD&E Investments

We invite applications for funding of RD&E that helps advance research to benefit the commercial forest growing sector in Australia, support growth of the market for forest and wood products or increasing productivity and profitability across the value chain.

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The Statistics and Economics Program at FWPA provides reliable industry data to support stakeholder decision making and business planning.

Our public data portal serves as a dynamic hub, granting direct access to an extensive repository of both international and domestic data, all of which is publicly available.