News
UPDATED | The state’s ombudsman says he has powers to investigate issues raised by an inquiry into Attorney-General Vickie Chapman’s rejection of a timber port on Kangaroo Island – but is unlikely to do so because the matter has already been heard by a parliamentary committee.
Business
In this week’s briefcase, timber suppliers circle a $2 million fund to address building industry shortages, the SA spirits industry begins work on a blueprint worth bottling and local e-invoicing company Link4 lands a big fish.
Get InDaily in your inbox. Daily. The best local news sent straight to your inbox every workday at lunchtime.
Thanks for signing up to the InDaily newsletter.
Kangaroo Island Plantation Timbers has rejected a $20 million offer to buy the majority of its forestry land and use it for farming, saying the bid was “far below book value”.
Planting of commercial timber crops have resumed on Kangaroo Island following the devastating summer bushfires, despite the company behind the crop still not having an approved port to take its product to market.
