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Dr Judith Ajani is an economist at the Australian National University’s Fenner School of Environment and Society. She has 23 years forestry industry research and policy experience. Since writing The Forest Wars, she has been working with colleagues on how best to incorporate Australia’s forests into our climate change policy.

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Time for a Coherent Forest Policy - Finally

What can the Commonwealth do to protect Australia’s forests, asks Judith Ajani: Australia is sitting pretty with plantations making possible native forest protection for immediate and significant reductions in our net greenhouse gas emissions. Calls for native forest protection in Australia started with the lobbying of the Argus and Australasian newspapers as the mid 1860s drought deepened. A century later a second wave of concerned citizens added plants and animals to the list as state governments approved clear-felling public native forests for export woodchips. Half a century after that, the earth’s atmosphere has joined the list.

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