Extending the Tasmanian RFA

The Australian and Tasmanian governments committed to establish a 20 year rolling extension to the Tasmanian Regional Forest Agreement (RFA).

A Joint Working Group (JWG) of senior government officials was established in 2014 to oversee negotiations for the RFA extension. At the time, the JWG included representatives from the Australian Government Departments of Environment and Energy and Agriculture and Water Resources (now the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment), and the Tasmanian Government Departments of Building Tasmania and Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment (now the Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania).

A variation to the Tasmanian RFA was signed on 18 August 2017 by the Australian and Tasmanian governments. A consolidated version of the R FA, which includes all previous amendments, including the 2017 variation, is also provided.

2017 Variation to the Tasmanian RFA

Consolidated version of the RFA

The process of extending the Tasmanian RFA involved the completion or development of a number of documents:

Independent Reviewer’s Report on the third five-yearly review of the RFA

Joint Government Response to the third five-yearly review

Further Assessment of Matters Report

Report Summarising the Feedback from the 2016 public consultation

Tasmania’s Forest Management System – An Overview

Contact

Forest Policy via email: forests@building.tas.gov.au