AUSTRALIA — A New South Wales government agency has racked up more than $1.1 million in penalties for more than a dozen instances of unlawful activity in fewer than five years, including seven criminal convictions. It also faces three more criminal prosecutions that could result in up to $12 million in additional penalties, if found guilty, and is under investigation for a further 18 potentially-illegal actions. That agency is the state government-owned logging company, Forestry Corporation of NSW. And now a community group has uncovered fresh evidence of illegal logging that experts say is driving endangered species towards extinction, allegations the NSW Environmental Protection Authority said it had added to its list of investigations. …But according to James Jooste from the Australian Forest Products Association NSW, an industry body that represents the timber industry, the allegations are all part of a plan by anti-logging activists to discredit and shut down the industry.