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 Forestry and again RFAs are analysed as held to be exempt from the EPBC when state logging regulations are supposed to be protecting under RFAs are supposed to protect national threatened species.
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