Help - industry input required!

Timber Queensland and the Queensland Government, through the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) have undertaken to develop a Forest and Timber Industry Plan that will establish a road map for the future of Queensland’s forest and timber industry.

Development of the Plan is one of the initiatives in the Queensland Government’s "July to December 2012 Action Plan" to grow a four pillar economy.

There will be three key inputs that will shape the content of the Industry Plan:

• Results of this industry survey
• Direct consultation with key industry organisations, industry specialists and individual businesses; and
• Industry Leaders Forum (a vision and planning forum involving invited industry leaders)

These inputs will be crafted into a Draft Industry Plan, that will focus on detailing a vision for the industry in 2040, identifying the challenges to be faced by businesses - both now and in the future – and determining what actions are needed to address those challenges.

The Draft Industry Plan will then form the basis for more extensive consultation with interested parties. The resultant Forest and Timber Industry Plan will be completed by the end of 2012.

This survey represents an opportunity for all interested parties to have their say about what the future of the Queensland forest and timber industry should look like, what are the key issues facing the individual business and the broader forest and timber industry, and importantly, what can be done about it!

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