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- W1519050013 abstract "Growing recognition of the importance of research impact is one driver towards more active researchin pursuit of law reform. Such research is to be encouraged.Proponents of social change should expect to encounter systemic inertia or resistance, combined withactive pushback from those with interests in maintaining the status quo. This applies to researchersadvocating law reform, even when engaging through formal avenues for policy review.Positive recommendations from a review process, law reform body or other formalised inquiry maybe a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for law reform. In controversial policy areas, formalrecommendations for law reform inevitably intersect with politics: indeed, successful statutory lawreform ultimately depends upon garnering sufficient reformist political will. At this nexus of policy,politics and law, interesting issues can arise as to academic independence and ‘objectivity’.My PhD research examines Australia’s primary environmental statute, the Environment Protection andBiodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) (‘EPBC Act’), specifically its exemptions for Regional Forestpage 10Agreement (‘RFA’) forestry operations. During my candidature, two significant reviews inquired into theEPBC Act’s operation:• a Senate Committee Inquiry; and• an independent review of the Act, required under s 522A, headed by Dr Allan Hawke.As flagged in my PhD Preliminary Research Plan (though the former Inquiry was unanticipated), I madesubstantive written and oral submissions to both these reviews. Based on my research, I recommendedlaw reform to amend the EPBC Act so as to:(a) strengthen it objects by remedying legal weaknesses therein, apparent from judicial reasoning inBrown v Forestry Tasmania (No 4) [2006] FCA 1729; and(b) repeal its ss 38–42 and 75(2B) exemptions for RFA forestry operations.The Senate Committee’s first report adopted my reasoning for (a) as its Recommendation 1, citing‘Governance expert Mr Tom Baxter’ amongst other submissions.The Committee made consideration of (b), EPBC Act ss 38–42, the sole subject of its second and finalreport. In a dissenting report, three Coalition Senators devoted a paragraph to ‘note the heavy relianceof the majority report on the evidence of Mr Tom Baxter, and also the failure to disclose that he is amember of the management committee of both the Environmental Defender’s Office and the NationalParks Association.’ Their term ‘the failure to disclose’ was, in my view, unwarranted.During recent debate over the proposed resource super profits tax, the shadow finance minister attacked‘a working paper by a graduate student at North Carolina University’, describing it as ‘the shonkiestpiece of work you’ve ever seen’ .Researchers need thick skin and should not be deterred by the possibility of political attacks. If yourrobust research recommends law reform which would challenge vested interests, anticipate a backlashwhich may ‘play the man’ (or woman) instead of the ball, by attacking you rather than the substance ofyour arguments. Such attacks may be an indicator of research impact." @default.
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- W1519050013 title "Perils of Public Participation in Parliamentary Process: An active research law reform example" @default.
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