In 2009 the federal government published the independent 10 year review undertaken regarding the functioning of the principal piece of national environment law, The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. Dr Allan Hawke had much to say in the review about the lack of oversight of native forest logging under Regional Forest Agreements, RFAs. This is the chapter that deals with RFAs and the fact that they are held to be exempted from the EPBC because state logging regulations under RFAs are supposed to protect national threatened species.
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