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Parliament votes to uphold veg management framework

The Queensland Parliament has tonight voted to protect Queensland’s existing vegetation management framework and maintain the hard-won property and development opportunities of landholders. Shadow Minister for Natural Resources and State Development Andrew Cripps said despite the Palaszczuk Labor Government’s opposition to the motion, common sense had prevailed. Mr Cripps said the LNP’s amendments to a […]

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Labor caves and Katters a no-show on crucial North QLD debate

 The Palaszczuk Labor Government has caved to pressure and now supports the LNP’s position that the Australian Government’s Northern Australia Infrastructure Fund (NAIF) should be headquartered in North Queensland.  Shadow Minister for Northern Development Andrew Cripps said North Queenslanders would be relieved to know that Labor had acknowledged Premier Palaszczuk had a brain-explosion when she […]

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PALASZCZUK SELLS OUT NORTH QUEENSLAND

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 and […]

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WATER REFORM MIGHT GO OUT WITH THE POLITICAL TIDE

The former LNP Government knew that reforming the Water Act was an essential precondition of future economic development opportunities in regional Queensland, particularly North Queensland.  The Water Act, put in place by Labor more than 10 years earlier, was overly proscriptive and inflexible, with water users clashing with the government throughout the 2000’s. In 2013, […]

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12 months, 44 jobs = Labor fail

The Palaszczuk Labor Government’s version of the LNP’s successful Royalties for Regions initiative has created just 44 jobs in 12 months after spending $30 million of taxpayer’s money. Shadow Minister for State Development Andrew Cripps said Labor’s Building our Regions program was a very poor and ineffective cousin of the former LNP Government’s initiative. “As […]

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“Cairns streets are dangerous”: Crawford

    Barron River MP Craig Crawford’s advocacy for his electorate and Cairns came into question last night after he labelled the streets of Cairns as ‘dangerous’ in the Queensland Parliament, during last night’s debate on Labor’s lockout laws.   Hinchinbrook MP Andrew Cripps said he was alarmed to hear Mr Crawford publicly declare the […]

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Katter props up Labor with lock out deal

Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) has cut a deal with the Palaszczuk Labor Government that is set to hurt licenced premises and potentially cost jobs in Townsville and Cairns. Member for Hinchinbrook, Andrew Cripps and Member for Burdekin, Dale Last said the Katters now shared responsibility for the decision of the Palaszczuk Labor Government to introduce […]

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OPINION – REGROWTH OF LABOR REGULATIONS ENDANGERS FARMERS

One of the most personally satisfying reforms of the former LNP Government in the Natural Resources portfolio 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 deals with the Greens), the LNP’s changes […]

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Lynham should immediately sign Adani mining lease

State Development and Mines Minister Anthony Lynham should sign the Mining Lease (ML) for Adani’s Carmichael mine in the Galilee Basin immediately to create jobs for north and central Queensland. Shadow State Development and Mines Minister Andrew Cripps said the Environmental Authority (EA) issued to the project yesterday paved the way for the ML to […]