Beyond public native forest logging: National forest policy and Regional Forest Agreements after South East Queensland

Environmental and Planning Law Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 189-210

  Brown, A J ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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11. Lead environment interests were represented by the Australian Rainforest Conservation Society and The Wilderness Society; industry interests by the Queensland Timber Board. For the immediate positive reception of this historic consensus, see J Greber, "We can have our trees and cut them too", Courier-Mail,
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23. "Sustained yield" in this instance was based only on 100 year wood production, and did not necessarily equate to the more vexed issue of "ecologically sustainable"; for which, see text accompanying note 107 below.
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51. Commonwealth of Australia, ss 1 and 2 respectively.
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54. For example, while cl 3 initially uses the plural "forest industries" (possibly going even broader to include non-timber uses), it then reverts to the singular "internationally competitive forest products industry" (cl 3) and "internationally competitive and efficient wood and wood products industry" (cl 18) in a clear demonstration that these are indeed all references to the same single timber industry, irrespective of wood source.
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60. The parties noted that the Commonwealth was required to apply "the same standards with respect to forest management and environmental, heritage, economic and social targets to be achieved" and "allow for differences in the obligations to be imposed on different States" only to the extent necessary to take account of differences in "forest types", "environmental, social and economic pressures", and "the level and quality of information": cl İB (d)-(e).
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109. In this respect companies like Maryborough's Hyne & Son, and Brisbane's Brett's Hardware, may be contrasted with NSW and Tasmanian woodchip export companies whose ability to ever support a truly sustainable value-added industry from current native forest practices appears tenuous.
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