QUICK FACTS
- 5,700 jobs supported by the industry.
- The wood we need to build our future
- Contracts till 2040
- $700 million in value at point of sale
- 3.43 million hectares of protected reserves
Under our 2030 Strong Plan for Tasmania’s Future, a re-elected majority Liberal Government will:
- Increase supply of high-quality native forest sawlog by up to 10 per cent per year
- Make this new supply exclusively available to existing Tasmanian customers
- Extend long-term supply contracts - which currently expire in 2027 -
to 2040 to secure local sawmillers’ futures - Rewrite Sustainable Timber Tasmania’s Ministerial Charter to put Tasmanians first.
An important part of our 2030 Strong Plan for Tasmania's Future is keeping our economy strong to create the jobs Tasmanians need, ensuring that Tasmania remains the best state to live, work and raise a family.
The Liberals are the strongest supporters of our native forestry industry. Tasmania’s native forestry industry is sustainable, renewable and world-leading.
Long-term supply contracts to secure local sawmillers future
A re-elected majority Rockliff Liberal Government will extend all existing native wood supply contracts for Tasmanian sawmillers to 2040.
These contracts to 14 sawmillers are currently scheduled to expire in 2027.
With State Labor Governments across the country ending native forestry and demand for wood increasing, we know that Tasmanian businesses need resource certainty for the future.
This is why we announced that we would make available an additional up to 158,000 cubic metres of sawlog to industry by unlocking the State's wood bank.
With this additional volume soon to be available, we are now able to extend wood supply contracts which will provide new certainty for multi-generational Tasmanian businesses to invest, grow and create jobs.
Pricing will be overseen by the Tasmanian Economic Regulator.
Rewrite Sustainable Timber Tasmania’s Ministerial Charter
Sustainable Timber Tasmania (STT) is an integral part of Tasmania’s forest industry, sustainably managing over 800,000 hectares of the state for timber and fibre production.
A re-elected majority Liberal Government will update STT’s Ministerial Charter to ensure that the organisation remains focussed on what matters most to the Tasmanian forestry sector and community.
This would include, but not be limited to, supporting growth in on-island processing of locally grown wood, continued sustainable provision of our unique speciality timbers, multiple use management of forestry land for beekeeping, recreation and other traditional activities and formalising STT’s involvement in the carbon market.
We will also ensure that an updated Charter would formally recognise the longstanding historic and current use of forestry land for recreational hunting with this to be maintained into the future and, where possible, expanded.
Net Cost: Nil