All Grown Up

This once squat station wagon is now a sharp soft-roader.

The Emotional Hard Line On Native Hardwood Does More Damage Than Good

THE progressive downsizing of Victoria's (and mainland Australia's) native hardwood timber industry (BusinessDay, 4/8) is difficult to reconcile against our $3 billion trade deficit in wood products and the fact that we have the world's sixth-largest forest estate. It also raises questions about the sense of reducing production of our most greenhouse-friendly building material, and the morality of increasing timber imports from countries with poor environmental records.