• PHOTO: sourced (This is a 2021 news story)
LOCAL builders and suppliers, like their counterparts around the country, have been left with second choice construction materials after the summer bushfires of 2019 and 2020 devasted millions of hectares, wiping out multiple plantations of softwood timber.
By 2020, timber stock fell by 40 per cent, wreaking havoc on the supply chain and bringing the industry to its knees. The cost of the few supplies rose, and sawmill jobs took a direct hit.
In response, the NSW government has . . .
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