Labor vows 'full scientific assessment' of logging agreements

Assessment to include climate science and threatened species impacts, ministers say Federal Labor is promising to revisit and fix any logging agreements with state governments that are not based on "proper, independent and full scientific assessments".In a pledge that could have implications for the rollover of nine agreements due to expire in New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia over the next three years, the shadow minister for agriculture, Joel Fitzgibbon, and shadow minister for environment and water, Tony Burke said; "Labor will always support proper, independent and full scientific assessments of RFA [regional forestry agreement] outcomes as part of the agreed framework. Continue reading...