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Bob Brown lawsuit aims to end Tasmanian native forest logging
The Bob Brown Foundation has launched a legal action which it hopes might end native forest logging in Tasmania by establishing that the industry is breaking federal...
Should the foundation win, similar actions could be taken against native forest logging in Victoria, NSW and Western Australia, said the foundation’s lawyer, Roland…
- Nick O’Malley
- The Sydney Morning Herald
The foundation lodged the case against the Tasmanian government, the federal government and the Tasmanian state-owned logging corporation, Sustainable…
The states are granted exemptions to the federal environmental protection for logging operations under so…