These plans are approved by Forest Practices Officers, who are authorised to do this by the Forest Practices Authority.
Tasmanian Resources Minister Guy Barnett said it was possible these words could be interpreted to mean the powers of Forest Practices Officers to approve timber harvesting are "fettered", or restricted. It also argues there was not a valid legal basis to convict and fine or jail anti-forestry protesters since then.Some protesters who have been fined say they will ask the Tasmanian Government for compensation.
He said the government was acting to fix the wording out of "an abundance of caution" and to give the timber industry certainty.When Tasmania's House of Assembly sat on Tuesday for the first time in more than a month, the government introduced a bill to fix the problematic words.
Do the ways by the protests improve to the 21st century ways?
Bullshit native forest logging, make the government pay compensation and restitution.
So it should be ... if anyone protested like this outside the Greens MP places of work the Greens would be screaming for the Riot squad .... the number 1 hallmark of the Left: 𝗛𝗬𝗣𝗢𝗖𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗬!!!