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Sign up to send Labor a Message on Vegetation Management

The LNP Opposition and Queensland’s peak rural industry groups have joined forces to launch a state-wide petition in response to the Palaszczuk Labor Government’s Vegetation Management (Reinstatement) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill. Launching the petition in Townsville today, Shadow Minister for Natural Resources, Andrew Cripps, said the petition was an opportunity for all Queenslanders to […]

Time running out to have say on vegetation management

Categories: Shadow Minsterial

Labor’s proposed vegetation management laws set to inflict pain on agriculture sector Laws will cripple investment in high value agriculture Submissions to committee close 25 April 2016 Time is running out to make a submission to the committee investigating the Labor’s proposed changes to the Vegetation Management Act, that are set to inflict a new […]

Labor and Greens can’t blame farmers for AIMS figures

Categories: Shadow Minsterial

AIMS figures show coral cover increasing next to catchments with extensive agricultural development Findings contradict green activists’ attacks on agriculture sector Palaszczuk Labor Government’s so-called ‘reef regulations’ punish farmers New figures released by the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) fly in the face of green groups blaming farmers for damage to the Great Barrier […]

LABOR RUNS OUT OF EXCUSES ON ADANI MINE

Categories: Shadow Minsterial

The Palaszczuk Labor Government has finally run out of excuses to delay signing the mining lease for Adani’s Carmichael Mine project in the Galilee Basin, the LNP Opposition said today. Shadow Mines Minister, Andrew Cripps, said the announcement today that the mining lease had been signed would certainly be a bitter-sweet moment for Adani’s Carmichael […]

O’Rourke has no credibility on North Queensland

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The Palaszczuk Labor Government has no credibility standing up for North Queensland Minister Coralee O’Rourke was caught out advocating for the NAIF to be based in Brisbane Calls by Minister O’Rourke for the Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Developing Northern Australia to be based in Townsville ring hollow Calls for the Northern Australia CRC […]

Palaszczuk Labor government failing regional Queensland

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Regional business groups urge Palaszczuk Labor to implement Royalties for Regions fund Advance Cairns, Townsville Enterprise and Capricorn Enterprise want percentage of royalties spent in regional Qld Labor’s regional infrastructure program $300m less than LNP’s Royalties for the Regions program. The LNP Opposition said calls by central and north Queensland economic development organisations for […]

‘Do nothing’ Minister does nothing with Carmichael project

Categories: Shadow Minsterial

Two weeks after telling the Queensland Parliament there were no further impediments to him signing the mining lease for Adani’s Carmichael Mine project in the Galilee Basin, Labor’s do nothing Mines Minister has still done nothing, the LNP Opposition said today. Shadow State Development and Mines Minister, Andrew Cripps, condemned the Palaszczuk Government for ‘playing […]

Common sense prevails on NAIF HQ

Categories: Shadow Minsterial

Common sense has prevailed on the location for the headquarters of the Northern Australia Infrastructure Fund (NAIF), with the Federal LNP Government announcing the $5 billion facility would be based in Cairns. Shadow Minister for Northern Development and Hinchinbrook MP Andrew Cripps said his and the LNP’s intervention ensured the NAIF was established in North […]

PALASZCZUK SELLS OUT NORTH QUEENSLND

Categories: Shadow Minsterial

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has sold out North Queensland by advocating for the Federal Government’s Northern Australia initiative to be based in Brisbane, the LNP said today. A furious Shadow Minister for Northern Development, Andrew Cripps, said there was no reason why the Northern Australia Infrastructure Fund (NAIF) couldn’t be based in North Queensland. “Townsville […]

LABOR’S VEGE BILL CASTS DARK SHADOW OVER RURAL QLD

Categories: Shadow Minsterial

THE MOST ANTI-FARMER, ANTI-AGRICULTURE & ANTI-RURAL BILL EVER One of my most personally satisfying reforms as Natural Resources Minister in the former LNP Government, was our landmark reforms to the Vegetation Management Act (VMA). After more than a decade of constant ideological persecution by successive Beattie and Bligh Labor Government’s (driven by several election preference […]

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