NSW

NSW

At Wirrabara and Bundaleer (north of Adelaide) where the first plantation of native hardwoods, exotic hardwoods, and softwoods, was established in 1876. South Australia's policy was supported by the United Kingdom in 1926 by a grant of migration funds toward 2000 hectares per year for ten years to assist migrant employment. ‘

Snapshot historical photos NSW Forest Activities. Source NSW Forest Commission

In NSW, the first plantations were established in 912. ‘The establishment of nurseries and plantations of timber trees was near the top of the list of duties of the Forest Conservancy Branch of the Mines Department of 1882, which is taken as the origin of today's Forestry Commission. John Duff, successor to the poet, Henry Kendall, who was the first Inspector, tried to respond to this with some arboreal trials. These were extended considerably by his successor, J.E. Brown (erstwhile first Conservator in South Australia), who was still eager to demonstrate that 'forests attract rain clouds'. But the first plantation of any size was established at Tuncurry (on the north coast near Taree) around 1912.

WA:

Diamond Tree Fire Tower, Donnelly State Forest 2015. Source

Wikipedia Forest Dept WA CALM.

The first plantations in WA were in 1897. The increasing rate of exploitation of the native forest in the 1870s prompted citizens, members of Parliament and even the Colonial Office to pressure the Government into some thoughts of a policy of conservation and replacement. However, it was nearly another thirty years before J. E. Brown, erstwhile first Conservator in South Australia and Inspector in New South Wales, was engaged to report on the situation. As a result of Brown's report, the Government appointed him in 1896 to head what he named the Woods and Forests