ABC 7.30: Land use conflict in NSW national parks
2 years, 4 months ago

ABC 7.30: Land use conflict in NSW national parks

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BARRY O'FARRELL: Look, I understand that we have national parks and we have State forests. REPORTER: The Upper House Standing Committee chaired by Robert Brown of the Shooters and Fishers Party had taken 518 submissions into the management of public land including the process of assessment of potential operational, economic, social and environmental impacts before any land is converted into national parks and conservation reserves. REPORTER: The industry's political complaint is that a Labor-Greens preference alliance through 16 years of Labor in government in New South Wales has distorted objective assessment of conservation values and land use. The New South Wales government continues to acquiesce to forest protests REPORTER: The Upper House Committee by a majority has recommended among other things an independent expert assessment of the management of all public lands to identify areas for multiple use, a moratorium on the creation of any new national parks, the immediate identification of appropriate reserved areas for release to sustain the wood supply needs of the timber industry. ROBERT BROWN: Quentin, if you've got the whole of this table as New South Wales and we lose ten jobs here, it doesn't matter.

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Conservationists say tourist development of national parks is changing their purpose

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