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Labor Beats WWF Drum On Great Barrier Reef

Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, said he had warned farmers in the lead up to the state election in January 2015 that Labor and the Greens had done another election deal that would undermine their productivity and tie them up in red tape and now it was coming to pass. Mr Cripps said the Environment Minister, […]

Lynham caught in vegetation management trap

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Natural Resources Minister Anthony Lynham has caught himself in a vegetation management trap, stuck between a Labor election commitment to reverse the LNP’s legislative changes and a supposedly ‘unfettered’ stakeholder roundtable process. Shadow Natural Resources Minister Andrew Cripps said questions asked at recent estimates hearings showed Minister Lynham could not explain how he would reconcile […]

Labor makes mess of Gulf Water Plan

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The Palaszczuk Labor Government has made a mess of the release of additional volumes of water entitlements from the Gulf Water Resource Plan, while adopting contradictory processes for two major green field irrigation projects in the Flinders and Gilbert River catchments. Shadow Minister for State Development and Natural Resources, Andrew Cripps, drew attention to the […]

Who is Pitt kidding on Cairns Port?

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State Treasurer and Member for Mulgrave Curtis Pitt, has submitted a desperate defence of the Palaszczuk Government’s handling of the future of the Port of Cairns (CP, 4 August, 2015). Mr Pitt’s extraordinary claim – that he has worked hard to ensure future development opportunities for the Port of Cairns can be accommodated – is […]

Where’s the Abbot Point EIS?

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Labor is dragging the chain on the approval process to expand the Abbot Point Port, making it more of an administrate threat to the Adani Coal project than the recent Federal Government’s technical issue. Shadow Minister for State Development and Mines Andrew Cripps said Labor’s unnecessary intervention in the application process had significantly delayed the […]

LABOR FLUSHED OUT ON IFED

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Political pressure from the LNP and various stakeholders in North Queensland has seen the Palaszczuk Labor Government forced into a backflip and provide a clear regulatory pathway for the proposed Integrated Food and Energy Development (IFED) project in the Etheridge Shire. Shadow Minister for Northern Development, Andrew Cripps, said he was pleased to see the […]

OPINION PIECE – NORTHERN DEVELOPMENT

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North Queensland based Labor Senator Jan McLucas recently lamented the rivalry between Cairns and Townsville and called for more cooperation between these two great northern cities (Cairns Post, 25/5/2015) – I agree. Many politicians from Townsville and Cairns, of all levels and persuasions, have wasted time on it. It’s a pity Senator McLucas’ article, having […]

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