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Investors seethe over Gunns slide

05 Mar 10 | BY SELLING a chunk of his shares not long before the company posted a steep drop in first-half profit, Gunns chairman John Gay has avoided paper losses of nearly $2 million. |

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Gunns may add surprise to results

17 Feb 10 | MARKET rumours are swirling about what's next on Gunns' agenda. |

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Crackdown on outlaw timber imports

12 Feb 10 | THE federal government is considering making it a criminal offence to import timber that has been illegally harvested overseas. | Gunns gets closer to new mill | EU raps illegal-timber research | GALLERY: Photos from Stock & Land's Beef ...

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EU raps illegal-timber research

18 Jan 10 | THE European Commission has cast doubt on research commissioned by the Federal Government that questions the need to have laws to block illegally logged timber imports. | Report calls for logging ... | Gunns gets closer to new mill | VIDEO: $20 drop in steer weaners at ...

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Gunns gets closer to new mill

07 Jan 10 | GUNNS said a pulp mill it planned to build in Tasmania would use only timber from plantations, bringing the forestry giant a step closer to meeting requirements of likely joint-venture partner Sweden's Sodra Skogsagarna. | Gunns wins pulpwood schemes | Push to make trucks pay | GALLERY: Photos from Queensland's big wet

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Report calls for logging shake-up to save Murray gums

22 Dec 09 | NEW national parks covering more than 70,000 hectares must be created in south-west NSW, and infrastructure built to create artificial floods, if the state's iconic red gum forests are to survive. |

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MIS "solid", says timber industry

14 May 09 | The timber industry has hit back at critics of the managed investment schemes fuelling growth of plantations around the country, saying ABARE figures prove the forest industry has solid foundation |

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Forest cuts are too deep

30 Apr 09 | Many native forests are being chopped down faster than they can grow back, the NSW Auditor-General said yesterday in a scathing report. | Timber MIS class action possible | Hobby farmers targeted in tax ... Visit Queensland Country Life

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