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Senator Brown
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Forestry and Conservation, upon notice, on 25 September 2001:
With reference to government and industry sources that have recently asserted that more than 8,000 Tasmanians are directly employed in the forest industry:
(a) What is the correct figure; and
(b) Please provide a breakdown showing how many are employed in:
(i) Forestry Tasmania;
(ii) Logging of native forests and plantations;
(iii) Planting;
(iv) Maintenance;
(v) Transport by road;
(vi) Other modes of transport;
(vii) Sawmills;
(viii) Woodchip mills;
(ix) Export facilities (please specify);
(x) Manufacturing involving wood products only;
(xi) Manufacturing involving wood and other materials;
(xii) Tourism, recreation, education etc; and
(xiii) Other (please specify).
Senator Ian Macdonald (Minister for Forestry and Conservation)
—The answer to the honourable senator's question is as follows:
The figures referred to were obtained from the December 2000 report by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) entitled: “Sustainability Indicator 6.3a—Survey of the Value of Investment in Forest Industries in Tasmania”.
This report may be accessed on-line at http://www.affa.gov.au/.
Based on a survey of Tasmanian forest industry businesses, the report estimates that 8, 259 Tasmanians were employed in forest-based industries during 1999-2000. A breakdown by category as specified in the question is not available. However the report does set out the following information:
Table 2: Employment in the Tasmanian forest sector, 1999-2000 | |
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Category of Employment | Total number of employees |
Forest growers | 2, 492 |
Forest management | 517 |
Harvesting and plantation establishment contractors | 2, 788 |
Pulp, paper and panel manufacturers | 215 |
Sawmills | 1, 750 |
Craftwood industries | 58 |
Secondary processors | 178 |
Tourism and recreation operators | 158 |
Other forest contact industries | 102 |
All business categories | 8, 259 |