All they do is bombard us with wood heaters being environmentally bad. In europe you have wood heaters burning super efficiently, many times more efficient than here, but here all we have is these big old wood heaters that resemble washing machines.
Rather than paying extra taxes to buy better heaters from overseas why not drop the tax and help the environment if you're serious. Our dollar is at maximum exchange rate with excellent buying power and all we get is the same old same old at a new increased price.
Get real, wood is renewable, and when burnt correctly is not an environmental issue. Like the posts above stated, what about all the back burning the DSE makes, and bushfires. In the old days we were allowed to pickup timber twigs in old reserves which reduced fire hazards.....but the greenies in the wisdom have stopped all that too....
Im sure if we opened up the market by dropping these import taxes and then some the local boys would pull up their pants and improve.......and if the government was really serious we would have no malor issues at all.....
I wont even go into electricity and coal.