{"id":363364,"date":"2025-08-06T17:10:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T07:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=363364"},"modified":"2025-08-06T17:10:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T07:10:40","slug":"feedback-sought-on-timber-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2025\/08\/06\/feedback-sought-on-timber-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Feedback Sought On Timber Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_75818\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75818\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tonyperrett.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75818\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tonyperrett.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tonyperrett.jpg 200w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tonyperrett-173x300.jpg 173w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-75818\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Primary Industries Minister Tony Perrett<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>August 6, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Consultations are now open on the State Government&#8217;s draft Queensland Future Timber Plan.<\/p>\n<p>The plan aims to ensure the State has access to the timber needed to build one million homes by 2044.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The five key areas are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Securing sustainable timber supply for housing, construction and infrastructure, and other industries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Establishing supply chain competitiveness on an international scale<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Developing better regulation that the community sees benefits in<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Building and retaining a viable fit-for-purpose workforce in rural and regional economies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Modernising and innovating the Queensland forestry and timber industry through research, development and extension<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The plan aims to deliver a 25-year strategy for the forestry and timber industry, supported by a five-year action plan to guide the initial steps.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Primary Industries Minister Tony Perrett said this was a once-in-a-generation opportunity to shape the future of Queensland\u2019s forestry and timber industries.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe plan has been shaped by key industry leaders and now we want to hear from everyone &#8211; from timber producers, small and family businesses, manufacturers to environmental groups and regional communities,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Submissions can be <a href=\"https:\/\/dpi.engagementhub.com.au\/qld-future-timber-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made online<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consultations are now open on the State Government&#8217;s draft Queensland Future Timber Plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":261136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,3,36],"tags":[1134],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Feedback Sought On Timber Plan - southburnett.com.au<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Consultations are now open on the State Government&#039;s draft Queensland Future Timber Plan.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2025\/08\/06\/feedback-sought-on-timber-plan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Feedback Sought On Timber Plan - southburnett.com.au\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Consultations are now open on the State Government&#039;s draft Queensland Future Timber Plan.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2025\/08\/06\/feedback-sought-on-timber-plan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"southburnett.com.au\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-06T07:10:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/tonyperrett.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Anne Miller\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Anne Miller\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2025\/08\/06\/feedback-sought-on-timber-plan\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2025\/08\/06\/feedback-sought-on-timber-plan\/\",\"name\":\"Feedback Sought On Timber Plan - southburnett.com.au\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-06T07:10:40+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-06T07:10:40+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#\/schema\/person\/d43a5027bdddc95f54e9c6274d8a57ae\"},\"description\":\"Consultations are now open on the State Government's draft Queensland Future Timber Plan.\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2025\/08\/06\/feedback-sought-on-timber-plan\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/\",\"name\":\"southburnett.com.au\",\"description\":\"Kingaroy and South Burnett News\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#\/schema\/person\/d43a5027bdddc95f54e9c6274d8a57ae\",\"name\":\"Anne Miller\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/author\/anne-miller\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Feedback Sought On Timber Plan - southburnett.com.au","description":"Consultations are now open on the State Government's draft Queensland Future Timber Plan.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2025\/08\/06\/feedback-sought-on-timber-plan\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Feedback Sought On Timber Plan - southburnett.com.au","og_description":"Consultations are now open on the State Government's draft Queensland Future Timber Plan.","og_url":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2025\/08\/06\/feedback-sought-on-timber-plan\/","og_site_name":"southburnett.com.au","article_published_time":"2025-08-06T07:10:40+00:00","og_image":[{"width":300,"height":200,"url":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/tonyperrett.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Anne Miller","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Anne Miller","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2025\/08\/06\/feedback-sought-on-timber-plan\/","url":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2025\/08\/06\/feedback-sought-on-timber-plan\/","name":"Feedback Sought On Timber Plan - southburnett.com.au","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#website"},"datePublished":"2025-08-06T07:10:40+00:00","dateModified":"2025-08-06T07:10:40+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#\/schema\/person\/d43a5027bdddc95f54e9c6274d8a57ae"},"description":"Consultations are now open on the State Government's draft Queensland Future Timber Plan.","inLanguage":"en-AU","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2025\/08\/06\/feedback-sought-on-timber-plan\/"]}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#website","url":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/","name":"southburnett.com.au","description":"Kingaroy and South Burnett News","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-AU"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#\/schema\/person\/d43a5027bdddc95f54e9c6274d8a57ae","name":"Anne Miller","url":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/author\/anne-miller\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363365,"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363364\/revisions\/363365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}