But the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission indicated yesterday that it had now widened its investigation to include other allegations of threatened boycotts after additional information surfaced during its inquiries
The publisher of Forest-Friendly Building Timbers, Mr Alan Gray, last night thanked the National Association of Forest Industries for turning his book into a bestseller by attempting to quash it.
The association threatened legal action under the Trade Practices Act
against BBC Hardware, the publisher, the Wilderness Society and two book
distributors, alleging the book contained misleading and deceptive information
about the environmental impact of logging in native forests.