Categories: Shadow Minsterial
Bill Byrne proves a leopard never changes its spots – declaring he’ll revisit Labor’s failed tree clearing laws less than three months after they were voted down Four days into his return to the portfolio, Bill Byrne wants to sell out farmers to appease the Greens in Jackie Trad’s south-east Queensland electorate Third […]
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After the defeat of the Palaszczuk Government’s proposed changes to Queensland’s vegetation management framework, the next challenge for future economic development opportunities in regional Queensland, particularly in North Queensland, is to defend the former LNP Government’s 2014 reforms to the Water Act. Security of tenure, the ability to manage vegetation and the availability of water […]
Categories: Shadow Minsterial
The Palaszczuk Government’s dishonesty over the consultation process concerning proposed changes to Queensland’s vegetation management framework has been exposed during budget estimates this week. On Wednesday, Natural Resources Minister, Anthony Lynham, was forced to admit the commitments he had given to rural stakeholders about the consultation process on Labor’s proposed vegetation management amendments had […]
Categories: Electorate
Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, has accused the Palaszczuk Government of rank hypocrisy over the issue of the ‘backpacker tax’ during a debate in the Queensland Parliament last week. Mr Cripps blasted a motion moved by Labor against the backpacker tax as an ‘opportunistic stunt’, given Labor’s track record of disastrous policies damaging agriculture and tourism. […]
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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 […]
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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The Palaszczuk Labor Government, spearheaded by Deputy Premier Jackie Trad, has unleashed a new level of pain for the bush and the suburbs with its draconian Vegetation Management (Reinstatement) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2016. Shadow Minister for Natural Resources and Mines Andrew Cripps said while the LNP fought for and secured extra time for […]
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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 […]
Categories: Shadow Minsterial
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, […]
Categories: Electorate
After nearly two and a half months as Queensland’s Labor Agriculture Minister, Leanne Donaldson was today unable to answer a simple question about a serious challenge facing the sugar industry. Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, who represents the sugar growing areas in the Herbert River district and the Cassowary Coast region, said Queensland’s $1.5 billion sugar […]
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