Subsidy/ grant

Amount

Source

“Federal budget confirms $100m for forest product innovations” Timberbiz, 26 October 2022 National Institute for Forest Products Innovation + confirmation of other previously announced grants by the former coalition government. https://www.timberbiz.com.au/federal-budget-confirms-100m-for-forest-product-innovations/

• $3.1 million over two years to extend the regional National Institute for Forest Products Innovation (NIFPI) Centres in Launceston, Mount Gambier, and Gippsland.
• $3.8 million over 3 years from 2022 for matching funding for R&D under the Growers Levy.
• $900,000 over two years to deliver a series of studies to assess our exposure to illegally logged timber.

National Forest Industries Plan

$20 million

http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;adv=yes;db=CHAMBER;id=chamber%2Fhansardr%2F3aef5f9d-aa5b-4d1d-98d0-fa5f25d3d3d7%2F0258;orderBy=_fragment_number,doc_date-rev;page=1;query=Dataset%3Ahansardr,hansardr80;rec=5;resCount=Default

Hub for forestry research University of Tasmania

"UTAS to become hub for forestry research" 20 May 2015 Senator Richard Colbeck, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture, http://goo.gl/d53HP5
Govt funding via Australian Research Council 2015 round of Industrial Transformation Research Program (ITRP) total value to about $14 million. The project is a collaboration between industry partners including Greening Australia (Tasmania), SFM Environmental Solutions, Forico, Forestry Tasmania, Island Workshop, FWPA and Neville-Smith Forest Products.

Forest Stewardship Council. Auditors. (Tasmanian Government )

http://www.themercury.com.au/news/politics/forestrys-480000-consultants-splurge/news-story/edc1d13caa9f04c213acc2021c3da506

Forest Stewardship Council (Tasmanian Government ) High Conservation Value assessment of forests.

http://www.themercury.com.au/news/politics/forestrys-480000-consultants-splurge/news-story/edc1d13caa9f04c213acc2021c3da506

Forest Industry Structural Adjustment Program (FISAP) over past 10 years

$58.44 Million

Commonwealth Parliamentary Library

Dinner for national industry lobby group, National Association of Forest Industries, 21 March 2011

$10,000

Senate Question on Notice 221

Trip to China for Industry Promotion by National Association of Forest Industries 2010/11

$86,200

Timber Communities Australia, industry lobby group shop front

$94,000

Forest and Wood Products Australia research grants program 2009-11

$18.63 Million

Losses by State Government logging agencies in NSW, Victoria, WA and Tasmania on native forest logging

average of $14 Million EACH YEAR in NSW. Similar amounts in other States

NSW losses since 2010 see

Access to forest resource and underpriced log royalties.

This is partly covered by logging agency losses (above), but otherwise not calculated.

Grant for industry promotion to National Association of Forest Industries 2010/11

$16,740

Senate Question on Notice 221

Industry Development grant to National Association of Forest Industries 2010/11

$160,000

Exemption from local government rates for production forests owned by corporatized State Government logging agencies.

$15 Million EACH YEAR in NSW.

Based on estimate by Bega Valley Shire Council

Damage to federal/ state/ council roads by log trucks. License fees do not cover the cost to the roads of damage done.

A log truck pays only a few times the rego of a car, but does many times the damage to roads

http://www.harryrclarke.com/2009/04/19/road-maintenance-externalities/

Nippon Paper. Victoria and Australian governments - grant for de-inked pulp plant at Australian Paper pulp and paper mill, Maryvale, Victoria. 11 October 2012

$9.5 million

http://www.manmonthly.com.au/news/government-grants-$9-5m for pulp plant construction

Nippon Paper, Maryvale Mill (Australian Paper). Victorian Government grant toward recycling plant project  March 2013

http://www.russellnorthe.com.au/LiteratureRetrieve.aspx?ID=139007

Services, such as “education” undertaken on behalf of the industry as a whole by either State forestry agencies or the portfolio department, such as Primary Industries and Small Business in NSW

$1.5 Million EACH YEAR in NSW

Question on Notice NSW Parliament

ForestWorks, an industry body for its National Workforce Development Fund (NWDF) and  Enterprise Based Productivity Places Program (EBPPP) 2011/12

$5.2 Million

Commonwealth Parliamentary Library

Damage to waterways caused by erosion and siltation may be difficult to quantify

Impossible to quantify

No calculation available

Carbon costs avoided. Exemption of logging from the carbon pricing scheme.

$362 Million EACH YEAR for Eden chipmill logging alone

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Loss of biodiversity/ environmental damage, including the death, injury and suffering of forest mammals, birds and reptiles.

What price can you put on a dead koala or Powerful Owl?

Impossible to quantify.

Greater bushfire risk due to drier, denser, even aged, even height regrowth forest.

Difficulty to quantify

No calculation available

Remediation  of marine environments due to introduction of exotic marine organisms  from ballast water of woodchip carriers

Exotic marine organisms are in all Australia’s woodchip ports

Diesel Fuel Rebate claimed by logging contractors 2007+

$60+ Million over the last 5 years

Commonwealth Parliamentary Library

2010 Government election commitment for a $20 million assistance package for Tasmanian forest contractors and their employees (not part of the Tasmanian Intergovernmental Agreement)

$20 Million

ALP election promise 2010

The Forest Industry Climate Change Research Fund and other grants for bio-energy research and/or development. 2008-11

$4.7 Million

Commonwealth Parliamentary Library

Biodiversity Fund grants to State Forest logging agencies 2012/13

$2.5 Million

Tasmanian Forest Intergovernmental Agreement funding from Federal and State Governments  2010-11

$338 Million (Commonwealth)

$56.4 Million (State)

Tasmania: additional Commonwealth funding May 2013

$7 Million

Tasmanian Forest Contractors Exit Assistance Program 2010-11

$17 Million

Tasmanian Forest Contractors Financial Support Program 2010-11

$5.4 million

 Climate change mitigation research, 2008 and 2011   

$1.4 million

Climate change adaptation research, 2008 and 2011

$3.6 million