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OPINION – CAPE YORK WATER PLAN COULD GO EITHER WAY

Natural Resources Minister, Anthony Lynham, recently announced a process to develop a water resource plan (WRP) for Cape York Peninsula. Cape York is the last region in Queensland to have a WRP put in place. The rest of Queensland is covered by 23 other WRP’s which have been developed since the Water Act 2000 was […]

Sovereign risk in Queensland – Pitt’s hypocrisy, Lynham’s legacy

Categories: Shadow Minsterial

Labor’s budget offers nothing for resources sector already facing uncertainty Confidence at a five year low according to a Queensland Resources Council survey Resources sector has already taken multiple blows under Palaszczuk Government The Palaszczuk Government’s second state budget has failed to address the growing perception of sovereign risk facing a resources sector under […]

Labor’s Tree Police armed and dangerous

Categories: Shadow Minsterial

Labor’s distrust and disregard for farmers loud and clear in 2016-17 Budget Palaszczuk Government spending big on vegetation management compliance officers Labor’s vegetation management laws to strip away farmers’ rightsThe Palaszczuk Labor Government is spending up big on the Tree Police to ensure vegetation management compliance officers have new tools to prosecute farmers and […]

Palaszczuk Labor axes Straddie jobs

Categories: Shadow Minsterial

150 jobs to go from North Stradbroke Island sand mine Palaszczuk and Labor break promise to create jobs by axing them Labor’s decision to shut mine down early faces strong opposition from local businesses and community The Palaszczuk Government has forced through laws to end sand mining on North Stradbroke Island, cutting hundreds of […]

Resources sector takes another hit from Labor

Categories: Shadow Minsterial

Labor changes to resources legislation could allow extreme green groups to abuse objections process Resource sector confidence at a five-year low The resources sector has taken another hit from the Palaszczuk Government, with Labor legislation passing through Parliament that will impact negatively on Queensland’s reputation as a state which businesses want to invest in and […]

CRIPPS WELCOMES NEW LNP TEAM TO GET QUEENSLAND MOVING

Categories: Electorate, Shadow Minsterial

Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, has welcomed today’s announcement of a new LNP Shadow Cabinet by Opposition Leader, Tim Nicholls and Deputy Leader, Deb Frecklington, to get Queensland moving. Mr Cripps said he was delighted to be asked by his new Leader and Deputy Leader to continue in his current role in the Shadow Cabinet, as […]

Cape vegetation management consultation contrived

Categories: Shadow Minsterial

Labor’s supposed vegetation management consultation deceptive Palaszczuk Labor Government’s aggressive bill to spread indigenous social and economic disadvantage across Cape York Cape York landholders to suffer under ‘flawed’ legislation The LNP has condemned Labor’s vegetation management consultation with Cape York Mayors and indigenous landholders as contrived and disingenuous, designed to try and convince Cook MP […]

Katter MPs hand Labor & Greens more power to whip farmers

Categories: Electorate, Shadow Minsterial

Robbie Katter and Shane Knuth have handed Labor more ammunition to punish rural Qld at the next electio KAP MPs support of compulsory preferential voting delivers Labor more green preferences and more power to introduce aggressive anti-farmer laws like vegetation management Power has ‘gone to KAPs heads’ and their wheeling and dealing with Labor has […]

Shorten reveals his hand as friend to Greens, enemy of farmers

Categories: Shadow Minsterial

Federal Labor attacks Queensland farmers with crazy climate change policy New federal trigger on vegetation clearing attacks farmers and state rights Labor’s ‘carbon tax by stealth’ policy exacerbates uncertainty already created by Palaszczuk Labor Federal Labor Leader, Bill Shorten, has today launched an aggressive attack on Queensland’s agriculture sector, with his ideologically-driven proposal, to impose […]

Regional Queensland short-changed under Labor

Categories: Shadow Minsterial

Labor short-changes Queensland’s regions on infrastructure North Queensland Minister misleads on regional infrastructure investment Labor’s Building our Regions replacement a $300 million cut to regional infrastructure The LNP has slammed the Minister Assisting the Premier on North Queensland, Coralee O’Rourke, for misleading Queenslanders on the Palaszczuk Labor Government’s investment in regional Queensland. Shadow State Development […]

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