Footnotes

Regional Forest Agreements

[1]        Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, Submission 85, pp 61-62.

[2]        Bill Slee, 'Resolving production-environment conflicts: the case of the Regional Forest Agreement Process in Australia', Forest Policy and Economics, vol. 3, 2001, pp 17-30; Marcus Lane, 'Regional Forest Agreements: Resolving resource conflicts or managing resource politics?', Australian Geographical Studies, vol. 37, no. 2, pp 142-153; Marcus Lane, 'Decentralisation or privatisation of environmental governance? Forest conflict and bioregional assessment in Australia', Journal of Rural Studies, vol. 19, 2003, pp 283-294.

[3]        DAFF, About RFAs, http://www.daff.gov.au/rfa/about/why (accessed 16 January 2009); Bill Slee, 'Resolving production-environment conflicts: the case of the Regional Forest Agreement Process in Australia', Forest Policy and Economics, vol. 3, 2001, pp 17-30.

[4]        National Forest Policy Statement, 1995, p. 21.

[5]        National Forest Policy Statement, 1995, p. 22.

[6]        Marcus Lane, 'Regional Forest Agreements: Resolving resource conflicts or managing resource politics?' Australian Geographical Studies, vol. 37, no. 2, pp 142-153.

[7]        Angus Martyn, Regional Forest Agreements Bill 2002, Bills Digest No. 91, Parliamentary Library, Canberra, 2001-02.

[8]        Gary Musselwhite and Gamini Herath, 'Australia's regional forest agreement process: analysis of the potential and problems', Forest Policy and Economics, Vol. 2, 2005, p. 582.

[9]        NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service and Environment Australia, JANIS and natural national estate conservation requirements, 4 May 1998, http://www.daff.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/49189/nsw_ed_ne35eh.pdf  (accessed 31 March 2009), p. 3.

[10]      DAFF, RFAs- How?, http://www.daff.gov.au/rfa/about/how (accessed 31 March 2009).

[11]      Marcus Lane, 'Decentralisation or privatisation of environmental governance? Forest conflict and bioregional assessment in Australia', Journal of Rural Studies, vol. 19, 2003, pp 283-294.

[12]      DAFF, RFAs- How? http://www.daff.gov.au/rfa/about/how (accessed 31 March 2009).

[13]      Marcus Lane, 'Decentralisation or privatisation of environmental governance? Forest conflict and bioregional assessment in Australia', Journal of Rural Studies, vol. 19, 2003, pp 283-294.

[14]      Marcus Lane, 'Decentralisation or privatisation of environmental governance? Forest conflict and bioregional assessment in Australia', Journal of Rural Studies, vol. 19, 2003, pp 283-294.

[15]      Marcus Lane, 'Decentralisation or privatisation of environmental governance? Forest conflict and bioregional assessment in Australia', Journal of Rural Studies, vol. 19, 2003, pp 283-294.

[16]      Jan McDonald, 'Regional Forest (Dis)Agreements: The RFA process and sustainable forest management', Bond Law Review, Vol. 11, No. 2, 1999, p. 313.

[17]      Angus Martyn, Regional Forest Agreements Bill 2002, Bills Digest No. 91, Parliamentary Library, Canberra, 2001-02.

[18]      Angus Martyn, Regional Forest Agreements Bill 2002, Bills Digest No. 91, Parliamentary Library, Canberra, 2001-02.

[19]      Angus Martyn, Regional Forest Agreements Bill 2002, Bills Digest No. 91, Parliamentary Library, Canberra, 2001-02.

[20]      Senator the Hon Robert Hill, Senate Hansard, 28 May 1998, p. 3438.

[21]      The Hon Wilson Tuckey, 'WA Conservation Council legal opinion misses the point', Press Release, 28 June 1999.

[22]      DAFF, RFAs, http://www.daff.gov.au/rfa/regions/vic-eastgippsland/rfa. Accessed 28 February 2009 (accessed 16 January 2009).

[23]      DAFF, Map of RFA regions, http://www.daff.gov.au/rfa/regions/map (accessed 25 March 2009).

[24]      DAFF, Tasmanian RFA, http://www.daff.gov.au/rfa/regions/tasmania/rfa (accessed 26 March 2009).

[25]      RFA Act 2002, s 10(4) – (7).

[26]      For example, see clauses 38-41 of the NSW Eden Region RFA and clauses 45-47 of the Tasmanian RFA.

[27]      DAFF, Tasmanian RFA reviews and annual reports, http://www.daff.gov.au/rfa/publications/annual-reports/tasmania (accessed 26 March 2009).

[28]      Tasmanian Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources, Regional Forest Agreement, http://www.dier.tas.gov.au/forests/tasmanian_regional_forest_agreement_rfa/regional_forest_agreement (accessed 26 March 2009).

[29]      DAFF, Tasmanian RFA – first five yearly review, http://www.daff.gov.au/rfa/publications/annual-reports/tasmania/first-review (accessed 26 March 2009).

[30]      John Ramsay, Report to the Australian and Tasmanian Governments on the Second Five Yearly Review of Progress with Implementation of the Tasmanian Regional Forest Agreement, February 2008, p. 1.

[31]      DAFF, NSW RFA first five yearly review scoping agreement, http://www.daff.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0012/967089/nsw-rfa-5-year-review-2008.pdf (accessed 27 March 2009).

[32]      DAFF, About RFAs – Protecting our forest environment, http://www.daff.gov.au/rfa/about/protecting-environment (accessed 26 March 2009).

[33]      National Association of Forest Industries, Submission 56, p. 3.

[34]      National Association of Forest Industries, Submission 56, pp 3-4.

[35]      Government of Tasmania, Submission 99, p. 2.

[36]      Tony Foley, 'Negotiating resource agreements: lessons from ILUAs', Environmental and Planning Law Journal, Vol. 19, No. 4, 2002, pp 267–275.

[37]      Jan McDonald, 'Regional Forest (Dis)Agreements: The RFA process and sustainable forest management', Bond Law Review, Vol. 11, No. 2, 1999, p. 315; Lee Godden and Jacqueline Peel, 'The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth): Dark sides of virtue', Melbourne University Law Review, Vol. 31, 2007, pp 106–145.

[38]      Andrew McIntosh, 'Why the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act's referral, assessment and approval process is failing to achieve its environmental objectives', Environmental and Planning Law Journal, Vol. 21, 2004.

[39]      Mr Michael Stokes, Submission 54; Mr Tom Baxter, Submission 65.

[40]      Gary Musselwhite and Gamini Herath, 'Australia's regional forest agreement process: analysis of the potential and problems', Forest Policy and Economics, Vol. 2, 2005, p. 586.

[41]      Jamie Kirkpatrick, 'Nature conservation and the Regional Forest Agreement process', Australian Journal of Environmental Management, Vol. 5, 1998, pp 31–37; Pierre Horwitz and Michael Calver, 'Credible science? Evaluating the Regional Forest Agreement process in Western Australia', Australian Journal of Environmental Management, Vol. 5, 1998, pp 213-225; John Dargavel, 'Politics, policy and process in the forests', Australian Journal of Environmental Management, Vol. 5, pp. 25–30; Marcus Lane, 'Decentralization or privatization of environmental governance? Forest conflict and bioregional assessment in Australia', Journal of Rural Studies, Vol. 19, 2003, pp 283–294.

[42]      Bill Slee, 'Resolving production-environment conflicts: the case of the Regional Forest Agreement process in Australia', Forest Policy and Economics, Vol. 3, 2001, p. 28.

[43]      Conservation Commission of Western Australia, Forest management Plan 2004–2013, http://www.dec.wa.gov.au/fmp (accessed 30 March 2009).

[44]      Western Australian Department of Environment and Conservation, Protocols for Measuring and Reporting on the Key Performance Indicators of the Forest Management Plan 2004-2013, March 2007, p. 18, available: http://www.dec.wa.gov.au/component/option,com_docman/gid,1017/task,doc_download/ (accessed 28 January 2009).

[45]      Conservation Council of Western Australia, Submission 96, p. 6.

[46]      Western Australian Department of Environment and Conservation, Protocols for Measuring and Reporting on the Key Performance Indicators of the Forest Management Plan 2004-2013, March 2007, p. 20, available: http://www.dec.wa.gov.au/component/option,com_docman/gid,1017/task,doc_download/ (accessed 3 April 2009).

[47]      Conservation Commission of Western Australia, Forest Management Plan 2004-2013, December 2003, p. 30, available: http://www.dec.wa.gov.au/fmp (accessed 3 April 2009).

[48]      Western Australian Government Gazette No. 134, Wildlife Conservation (Specially Protected Fauna) Notice 2008(2), 5 August 2008, available: http://www.slp.wa.gov.au/gazette/gg.nsf/gaz?OpenView&Start=2.47&Count=100&Expand=2.98#2.98 (accessed 3 April 2009).

[49]      Western Australian Government Gazette No. 200, Wildlife Conservation (Specially Protected Fauna) Notice 2006(2), 1 December 2006, available: http://www.slp.wa.gov.au/gazette/gg.nsf/gaz/6EE672CD10F1F63C48257236001212DB?openDocument (accessed 3 April 2009).

[50]      Western Australian Department of Environment and Conservation, Woylie Conservation Research Project, available: http://www.dec.wa.gov.au/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3230&pop=1&page=2&Itemid=97 (accessed 3 April 2009).

[51]      Conservation Commission of Western Australia, Forest Management Plan 2004-2013: Mid-term audit of performance report, 24 December 2008, http://www.conservation.wa.gov.au/media/7582/fmp%20mid%20term%20audit%20report_200308.pdf (accessed 3 April 2009).

[52]      Conservation Commission of Western Australia, Forest Management Plan 2004-2013: Mid-term audit of performance report, 24 December 2008, p. 141, http://www.conservation.wa.gov.au/media/7582/fmp%20mid%20term%20audit%20report_200308.pdf (accessed 3 April 2009).

[53]      Conservation Commission of Western Australia, Forest Management Plan 2004-2013: Mid-term audit of performance report, 24 December 2008, p. 141, http://www.conservation.wa.gov.au/media/7582/fmp%20mid%20term%20audit%20report_200308.pdf (accessed 3 April 2009).

[54]      Conservation Commission of Western Australia, Forest Management Plan 2004-2013: Mid-term audit of performance report, 24 December 2008, p. 3, http://www.conservation.wa.gov.au/media/7582/fmp%20mid%20term%20audit%20report_200308.pdf (accessed 3 April 2009).

[55]      Lawyers for Forests, Submission 68, pp 5–8; Mr Keith Sarah, Submission 13; Professor Lee Godden, Submission 92, p.8.

[56]      North East Forest Alliance and Northern Inland Environment Council, Submission 97, p. 5.

[57]      DAFF, Correspondence to the Committee, 16 April 2009, p. 2.

[58]      National Forest Policy Statement, 1995, p. 7.

[59]      National Forest Policy Statement, 1995, p. 10.

[60]      DAFF, The Commonwealth Position on Regional Forest Agreements, http://www.daff.gov.au/rfa/about/process/introduction (accessed 27 March 2009), Box 3.

[61]      DAFF, Correspondence to the Committee, 16 April 2009, p. 1.

[62]      Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Draft findings of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Biodiversity and Climate Change, London 17–21 November 2008, p. 3.

[63]      Bob Brown, Wielangta forest landmark trial (leaflet), 2008.

[64]      Brown v Forestry Tasmania (No 4) [2006] FCA 1729.

[65]      Brown v Forestry Tasmania (No 4) [2006] FCA 1729 Summary, p. 2.

[66]      Brown v Forestry Tasmania (No 4) [2006] FCA 1729, p. 3.

[67]      Brown v Forestry Tasmania (No 4) [2006] FCA 1729 Summary, p. 3.

[68]      Brown v Forestry Tasmania (No 4) [2006] FCA 1729 Summary, p. 9.

[69]      Brown v Forestry Tasmania (No 4) [2006] FCA 1729 Summary, pp 11-12.

[70]      Brown v Forestry Tasmania (No 4) [2006] FCA 1729 Summary, p. 14.

[71]      Regional Forest Agreements Act 2002, s 4.

[72]      Brown v Forestry Tasmania (No 4) [2006] FCA 1729 Summary, pp 40-41.

[73]      Brown v Forestry Tasmania (No 4) [2006] FCA 1729 Summary, pp 41-42.

[74]      Brown v Forestry Tasmania (No 4) [2006] FCA 1729 Summary, pp 41-42.

[75]      Tasmanian Regional Forest Agreement, November 1997, http://www.daff.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/49278/tas_rfa.pdf (accessed 11 March 2009).

[76]      Brown v Forestry Tasmania (No 4) [2006] FCA 1729 Summary, p. 44.

[77]      Brown v Forestry Tasmania (No 4) [2006] FCA 1729 Summary, p. 45.

[78]      Brown v Forestry Tasmania (No 4) [2006] FCA 1729 Summary, pp 53-58.

[79]      Brown v Forestry Tasmania (No 4) [2006] FCA 1729 Summary, p. 60; clause 68 of the Tasmanian RFA states 'The State agrees to protect the Priority Species listed in Attachment 2 (Part A) through the CAR Reserve System or by applying relevant management prescriptions'.

[80]      Brown v Forestry Tasmania (No 4) [2006] FCA 1729 Summary, p. 9.

[81]      Brown v Forestry Tasmania (No 4) [2006] FCA 1729 Summary, pp. 14-17.

[82]      Brown v Forestry Tasmania (No 4) [2006] FCA 1729 Summary, p. 17.

[83]      Brown v Forestry Tasmania (No 4) [2006] FCA 1729 Summary, pp 21, 28 and 34.

[84]      Forestry Tasmania v Brown [2007] FCAFC 186.

[85]      Quoted in Forestry Tasmania v Brown [2007] FCAFC 186.

[86]      Larissa Waters, 'Brown v Forestry Tasmania (No 4) [2006] FCA 1729 (19 December 2006) – Federal Court finds logging unlawful', National Environmental Law Review, summer, 2006, pp. 25 – 30.

[87]      Shashi Sivayoganathan, 'Forestry Tasmania v Brown: Biodiversity Protection – An Empty Promise?' National Environmental Law Review, spring, 2007, pp. 21 – 28.

[88]      Forestry Tasmania v Brown [2007] FCAFC 186.

[89]      Forestry Tasmania v Brown [2007] FCAFC 186.

[90]      Forestry Tasmania v Brown [2007] FCAFC 186.

[91]      Forestry Tasmania v Brown [2007] FCAFC 186.

[92]      Forestry Tasmania v Brown [2007] FCAFC 186, p. 23.

[93]      Forestry Tasmania v Brown [2007] FCAFC 186.

[94]      Mr Tom Baxter, Submission 65, p. 7; DAFF, Tasmanian Regional Forest Agreement, http://www.daffa.gov.au/rfa/regions/tasmania/rfa (accessed 20 March 2009).

[95]      DAFF, Tasmanian Regional Forest Agreement, http://www.daffa.gov.au/rfa/regions/tasmania/rfa (accessed 20 March 2009).

[96]      High Court of Australia, Brown v Forestry Tasmania [2008] HCATrans 202, http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/HCATrans/2008/202.html (accessed 20 March 2009).

[97]      High Court of Australia, Brown v Forestry Tasmania [2008] HCATrans 202, http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/HCATrans/2008/202.html (accessed 1 April 2009).

[98]      DAFF, Variation to the Tasmanian RFA 23 February 2007, http://www.daff.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0015/156003/variation-tas-rfa.pdf (accessed (1 April 2009).

[99]      DAFF, Tasmanian RFA, http://www.daff.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/49278/tas_rfa.pdf (accessed 1 April 2009); DAFF, Variation to the Tasmanian RFA 23 February 2007, http://www.daff.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0015/156003/variation-tas-rfa.pdf (accessed (1 April 2009).

[100]    Mr Tom Baxter, Submission 65, p. 7.

[101]    Professor Lee Godden, Submission 92, p. 8.

[102]    Mr Andrew Walker, Lawyers for Forests Inc., Committee Hansard, 8 December 2008, p. 26.

[103]    High Court of Australia, Brown v Forestry Tasmania [2008] HCATrans 202, http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/HCATrans/2008/202.html (accessed 1 April 2009).

[104]    Mr Allan Hansard, Chief Executive Officer, National Association of Forest Industries, Committee Hansard, 18 February 2009, p. 9.

[105]    Timber Communities Australia, Submission 7, p. 5.

[106]    Forestry Tasmania v Brown [2007] FCAFC 186.

[107]    Shashi Sivayoganathan, 'Forestry Tasmania v Brown: Biodiversity Protection – An Empty Promise?', National Environmental Law Review, Spring 2007, pp 21-42.

[108]    Mr Tom Baxter, Submission 65, p. 7.

[109]    Mr Tom Baxter, Submission 65, p. 7.

[110]    NAFI, Submission 56, p. 6.

[111]    Mr Shane Gilbert, Strategic Advisor, NAFI, Committee Hansard, 18 February 2009, p. 11.

[112]    Mr Allan Hansard, Chief Executive Officer, NAFI, Committee Hansard, 18 February 2009, p. 15.

[113]    DAFF, Correspondence to the Committee, 16 April 2009, p. 2.

[114]    DAFF, Correspondence to the Committee, 16 April 2009, p. 2.

[115]    Mr Michael Stokes, Submission 54, pp 4–5.

[116]    Professor Lee Godden, Submission 92, p. 9.

[117]    Professor Lee Godden, Submission 92, p. 9.

[118]    The Wilderness Society, Submission 51, p. 15.

[119]    Mr Tom Baxter, Submission 65, pp 8-12.

[120]    Environment and Heritage Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2006, Explanatory Memorandum (EM), p. 30.

[121]    DAFF, Correspondence to the Committee, 16 April 2009, p. 3.

[122]    DAFF, Correspondence to the Committee, 16 April 2009, p. 3.

[123]    DAFF, Correspondence to the Committee, 16 April 2009, p. 4.

[124]    DAFF, Correspondence to the Committee, 16 April 2009, p. 4.

Coalition Senators' Dissenting Report

[1]        Forestry Tasmania v Brown [2007] FCAFC 186.

[2]        High Court of Australia, Brown v Forestry Tasmania [2008] HCATrans 202, http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/HCATrans/2008/202.html (accessed 28 April 2009).

[3]        Australia’s State of the Forests Report 2008, Bureau of Rural Sciences, Canberra.

[4]        Australia’s State of the Forests Report 2008, Bureau of Rural Sciences, Canberra, p. 20.

[5]        Australia’s State of the Forests Report 2008, Bureau of Rural Sciences, Canberra, p. 21.

[6]        Australia’s State of the Forests Report 2008, Bureau of Rural Sciences, Canberra, p. 1.

[7]        Joint ANZECC (Australian and New Zealand Environment Conservation Council)/MCFFA (Ministerial Council on Forestry, Fisheries and Aquaculture) NFPS (National Forest Policy Statement) Implementation Sub-committee 1997.

[8]        Forestry Tasmania v Brown [2007] FCAFC 186.

[9]        Forestry Tasmania v Brown [2007] FCAFC 186, p. 36.

[10]      Forestry Tasmania v Brown [2007] FCAFC 186, p. 36.

[11]      Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Submission 86, pp 5–6.