Levelling the playing field: reforming forestry governance in Tasmania

Lunch-time Forum – Monday 15th March, 1pm,

University of Tasmania, Hobart (Arts Lecture Theatre)

A recently commissioned expert report into the regulation of Tasmania’s forests & forests industry, ‘Levelling the playing field: Reforming Forestry governance in Tasmania’ has found that Tasmania’s forestry governance environment is a tilted playing field which favours extractive logging of State forests at the expense of conservation, tourism and community interests.

At the legal and regulatory level, the report found that the web of exemptions and special legislation surrounding forestry creates an impression among many of one law for forestry and another law for
everyone else. The report makes a number of recommendations aimed at fixing this problem, such as the restructuring of Forestry Tasmania, and is seeking public comment. A lunch-time forum with the report author and others with expertise in the field, provides an important opportunity for members of the public to discuss this issue, ask questions, raise concerns, and provide invaluable information.

What: Lunch-time forum

Levelling the forestry playing field – Reforming forestry governance in Tasmania

Where: Arts Lecture Theatre, University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay Campus

When: Monday 15th March, 1 – 2pm

Who:

Dr Wynne Russell, CS Dev Associates, author, ‘Levelling the playing field: Reforming Forestry
governance in Tasmania’

Tom Baxter, Lecturer, School of Accounting & Corporate Governance, University of
Tasmania

Dr Phill Pullinger, Director, Environment Tasmania
Other speakers: TBC

Earlier on Tasmanian Times: Justice Pierre Slicer’s launch speech. And, DOWNLOAD of the full document: HERE
Dr Phill Pullinger