NSW forestry agency should be shut down for repeatedly breaking law, critics argue
Forestry Corporation says suggestion that it can be compared to a criminal bikie gang is ‘ridiculous’
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A former magistrate and one of Australia’s most experienced scientists have launched an extraordinary attack on the New South Wales government’s logging agency, describing it as effectively a “criminal organisation” that should be shut down after a string of court convictions.
Prof David Heilpern, a NSW magistrate between 1998 and 2020 and now the dean of law at Southern Cross University, said the state’s Forestry Corporation should be “disbanded” as it was was no longer fit for purpose.
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