AUSTRALIA — 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. Hundreds rallied in nearby Coffs Harbour on Friday to demand the state government cease logging in areas intended to form part of the promised national park. …Before the March election, Labor committed to establishing the new national park. But the government has defended the recent forestry activity by saying it had not committed to a suspension or moratorium on logging. …There has been growing pressure on the NSW Labor government to end native forest logging after Victoria’s Andrews government announced the practice would cease in December, six years earlier than planned.