AusSie is further down the Hemp Construction track
than NZ and This shouldn ’ t be so , considering we had the same 2006 starting point .
Klara Marosszeky ( Managing Director of the Australian
Hemp Masonry Company ) recounts : “ I first became interested in hemp in 1999 . At that time the NSW Department of Primary Industries position on hemp was “ It ’ s not a viable crop for NSW !”
“ I was also working for Greening Australia at that time and we had a big map on the wall at work , showing where corridors of trees needed to be established or restored for wildlife , due to the impacts of land clearing and deforestation .
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“ We were very aware of the emerging ‘ carbon issue ’ and we were trying to address that with trees . While in the process , I became really aware that we would also need to find a faster growing biomass because we couldn ’ t sustain forestry at the levels we were logging at .