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Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, says he is continuing his campaign to see a new state school delivered for families living in the growing suburbs on Townsville’s Northern Beaches. Mr Cripps says an answer to a Question on Notice he asked of Education Minister Kate Jones indicated that the need for a new school on Townsville’s […]
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Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, encouraged interested individuals and organisations to make a submission to the Federal Parliamentary Committee on Law Enforcement inquiry into crystal methamphetamine, the drug otherwise known as Ice. Mr Cripps said while submissions were due by 10 June 2015, the committee had indicated that it will consider providing extensions to individuals and […]
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Member for Hinchinbrook Andrew Cripps has welcomed the recent decision by UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee not to place Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef on the “in danger” list, hailing it as an uncommon win for common sense. Mr Cripps said despite the inflammatory scaremongering and doomsday rhetoric of the extreme Green movement, which tried to demonise […]
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Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, says the LNP last night won a battle for Queensland patients, with an Opposition motion on the surgery wait time guarantee supported by the Queensland Parliament. Mr Cripps said the minority Palaszczuk Government was defeated for the first time in the Queensland Parliament last night, with a majority of MPs voting […]
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Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, has welcomed the federal Coalition Government’s budget focus on supporting small businesses to grow and create job opportunities in local communities. Mr Cripps said the federal Coalition was to be commended for promoting policies that encouraged small business to take advantage of the current low interest rate environment and invest in […]
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Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, has welcomed encouraging signs in the federal Coalition’s budget that investment in regional infrastructure and agriculture, including in North Queensland, could flow in the near future. Mr Cripps said a number of budget allocations indicated the upcoming Agriculture White Paper and Northern Australia White Paper from the federal Coalition would be […]
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Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, says he is pleased to see progress being made to re-establishing commercial forestry activities on land in the Herbert River district, Cardwell and Kennedy areas. Mr Cripps said he was encouraged by advice from HQ Plantations that it has completed the re-establishment of 679 hectares of land in the last few […]
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The re-election of a Labor Government has opened the door for the greens to target North Queensland, with the Environment Minister digging up an old proposal to remove a number of long established fishing huts in the Herbert River District. Member for Hinchinbrook Andrew Cripps said he wasn’t surprised Labor was moving quickly to do […]
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Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, says he is still pushing for the Queensland and Commonwealth Government’s to agree to a package of biosecurity measures prepared by the banana industry to tackle Panama Disease in North Queensland. Mr Cripps said the outbreak of Panama Disease Tropical Race 4 (TR4) was the most serious biosecurity threat to the […]
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The Queensland LNP Opposition has brought to a head, after years of stalled policy work, plans to establish a renewable fuels industry in Queensland. Member for Hinchinbrook, Andrew Cripps, said the result of a debate in the Queensland Parliament last night, had put to an end, years of indecision and broken promises from consecutive […]
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