Tensions are escalating in state forests near Bellingen, where a protesters’ camp is locked in a standoff with a heavy police presence
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The New South Wales government has been accused of stalling on a promise to create a national park to protect koalas as tension mounts over logging in the state’s northern forests.
Protesters and police have been engaged in a standoff, with both groups setting up forest camps, as logging takes place in the Newry state forest near the town of Bellingen, on the mid-north coast.
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