Categories: Shadow Minsterial
Annastacia Palaszczuk and Labor resort to farmer bashing to win election Labor again distorts vegetation management figures to paint farmers as environmental vandals SLATS report still deceptively includes drought feeding and clearing for fencelines and fire breaks as ‘broad scale clearing’ The Palaszczuk Labor Government has resorted to the same old farmer-bashing and figure […]
Categories: Shadow Minsterial
Labor has been caught out lying about making a five-year, $80 million funding commitment to the Queensland Natural Resource Management Investment Program The LNP invested a record $80 million over five years into the Queensland Natural Resource Management Investment Program Labor’s rhetoric about being concerned about the environment is hollow The Palaszczuk Government has been […]
Categories: Electorate
Crocodiles that pose a danger to public safety will no longer be relocated and released, but ‘euthanised’ if a zoo or crocodile farm can’t take them, under a strong new LNP crocodile management policy designed to put the safety of North Queenslanders first. Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, said the LNP had listened to the concerns […]
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Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, has welcomed the announcement that a future LNP Government would move to phase out supermarket-style plastic bags across Queensland, as part of another practical environmental policy initiative. Mr Cripps said single-use plastic bags had an average lifespan of just 12 months, but can take more than 1000 years to fully decompose […]
Categories: Electorate
Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, has written to the Environment Minister, Steven Miles, requesting his Department take responsibility for the flying fox colony in Ingham’s botanical gardens, after directing the Hinchinbrook Shire Council to stop authorised management activities. In his letter to Minister Miles, Mr Cripps said for years, the flying fox colony has been a […]
Categories: Electorate
Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, has challenged two Palaszczuk Government Minister’s about their decision to shut down a feral goat eradication program on Pelorus Island, allegedly to protect the vulnerable Beach Stone Curlew from wild dogs released as part of the conservation project. Mr Cripps said there had been considerable public interest in the Hinchinbrook Shire […]
Categories: Electorate
Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, has accused two Palaszczuk Government Ministers of a political stunt to shut down a feral goat management project on Pelorus Island and didn’t believe the decision was based on science or environmental grounds. Mr Cripps said in issuing a conservation order to the Hinchinbrook Shire Council, Environment Minister, Steven Miles […]
Categories: Shadow Minsterial
Steven Miles lashes out at farmers for wanting to stage peaceful protest at Ekka time in Brisbane If it’s OK for Labor’s union mates to stage regular protests, why not farmers? Labor clearly feeling the pressure for its draconian changes to vegetation management laws There will be one extra clown at the Royal Queensland Show […]
Categories: Electorate
Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, has thrown his support behind Hinchinbrook Shire Council’s (HSC) efforts to eradicate feral goats on Pelorus Island by temporarily introducing dingoes, describing the program as innovative and practical. Mr Cripps said criticism of the plan ignored the fact the feral goats were damaging the environment on the island, other methods […]
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The appointment of not-for-profit conservation group, Rainforest Reserves Australia, as the new operators of the Garners Beach Cassowary Rehabilitation Centre at Mission Beach has been cautiously welcomed by Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps. Mr Cripps said the announcement of new operators for the facility follows a community driven campaign to keep it open, after the Palaszczuk […]
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