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Bob Brown loses legal challenge to native forest logging in Tasmania
Federal court loss a major blow to the Bob Brown Foundation, which had described it as ‘the great forest case’
Former Greens leader Bob Brown’s eponymous environment group has lost a legal challenge to native forest logging in Tasmania that claimed the industry’s logging was at odds with…
- Adam Morton
- The Guardian
The case by the Bob Brown Foundation, lodged in the federal court in August and billed by the group as “the great forest case”, argued an effective exemption from environment laws…
Lawyers for the foundation said the agreement lacked an enforceable requirement that the state must protect…