The EPBC Act, the Australian Government’s central piece of environmental legislation introduced in 2000, is required to be reviewed every 10 years. A panel of experts headed by senior bureaucrat, Dr Allan Hawke, carried out the review. In this Chapter 6 the review addresses Forestry and discusses exemptions of Regional Forest Agreements from the EPBC Acton the basis that state regulatory systems were supposed to ensure environmental protections.
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