About the Forestry Hub
Our Membership
The Murray Region Forestry Hub is made up of the following members:
- Four local councils (Snowy Valleys Council, Cootamundra- Gundagai Regional Council, Greater Hume Shire Council, Albury City)
- Forestry Corp NSW, Hume Forests, HVP, (Forest Growers)
- Forest Industry Council (Representing harvesting & haulage contractors)
- Hyne Timber Tumbarumba, AKD Sawmills Tumut, and Visy Tumut (Processors)
- Department of Regional NSW
- Transport for NSW
- Regional Development Australia (Riverina and Murray)
This is largely the same as the membership of the Softwoods Working Group. Other Victorian processors and local government areas are also part of the Hub but are not yet part of the Hub Committee.
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Dean Anderson
Chair of the Hub
Dean Anderson
Chair of the Hub
Dean Anderson gained a Bachelor of Science (Forestry) form the Australian National University, is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and is a qualified Incident Manager.
Dean has been involved in Forestry for 40 years and has held numerous and various roles within the Forest Growing Industry in numerous locations; South Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Scotland and predominantly within New South Wales. His career has included senior roles in Commercial (including Carbon Trading), Natural Forest Management, Environmental Assessment and Plantation Management. Dean has been called upon a number times to be either the Incident Controller or Deputy Incident Controller for Bushfire emergencies of State significance and was part of Australia's first deployment of Forest-Firefighters to North America in 2000. Along with numerous others that contributed to fighting the 2019/20 Black-Summer fires he was awarded the National Emergency Medal.
For 15 years Dean was on the board of the Timber Development Association, an organisation that promotes the use of timber and addresses technical aspects of timber use in construction, and was the Chair of this association for 5 years.
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Rab Green
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Rab Green
Hub Manager
Rab is Associated Kiln Dryers (AKD) Site Manager at Tumut NSW.
Rab has over 30 years timber industry experience in operations, maintenance, and engineering.
Over the last 20 years Rab has progressed his way into Site Manager overseeing Greenmill, Kiln drying, Dry mill and treatment facilities.
Rab plays an active role in supporting the wider business of AKD which has over 1100 employees, six sawmills and over 12,000 hectares of radiata pine plantations.
Rab is safety driven and has a strong ethical approach to business and life and thrives in an environment with management that supports and rewards passionate and talented people who value success.
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Carlie Porteous
Hub Manager
Carlie Porteous
Hub Manager
Carlie brings more than 14 years' experience in the forestry industry to the new role having previously worked with all aspects of the value chain; contractors, growers, processors and government agencies. Carlie recognises that driving real change in business culture and achieving real commercial outcomes requires vulnerability, transparency and great communication skills, including the most important skill of all, listening.
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Terese Adams
Executive Assistant
Terese Adams
Executive Assistant
Terese has been the Executive Assistant to the Hub since 2021.
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Funding
Our Hub is one of 11 that were initially funded in 2019 for three years by the Federal Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment.
In the May 2021 budget, a further $10.6 million was announced to continue the Forestry Hubs for a further three years and create new Hubs in the Northern Territory and south east NSW.