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QLD LNP LEADER VISITS INGHAM AGAIN

Queensland LNP Leader, Tim Nicholls, visited the Herbert River district on Monday for the second time in less than two weeks, engaging with community and industry groups and following up on issues discussed during his previous visit. Mr Nicholls joined Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, in Ingham for meetings concerning the local sugar industry, before […]

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT MUST DELIVER SUGAR INDUSTRY CODE OF CONDUCT

Categories: Shadow Minsterial

Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, has called on the Federal Government to immediately implement the bipartisan and unanimous recommendation of the Senate Rural and Regional Affairs Committee* supporting the development of a sugar industry Code of Conduct. Mr Cripps said 18 months after the Senate Committee handed down its report, the Federal Government had not progressed […]

PALASZCZUK LABOR SLASHES SUGAR INDUSTRY R & D FUNDS

Categories: Electorate

The Palaszczuk Labor Government has slashed funding to the Queensland sugar industry’s dedicated research and development organisation, Sugar Research Australia (SRA), leaving it struggling to respond effectively to serious productivity challenges. Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, has condemned the Palaszczuk Government for reducing its annual contribution to SRA, at a time when the industry was battling […]

Yellow Canopy Syndrome… what Yellow Syndrome?

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 […]

LABOR DEFEATED ON SUGAR MARKETING

Categories: Electorate

Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, said the LNP played a crucial role in the successful passage of legislation through State Parliament yesterday, which will provide choice and transparency to cane growers in future marketing arrangements in the Queensland sugar industry. Mr Cripps said the Palaszczuk Labor Government yesterday suffered its first legislative defeat, after the […]

LNP Seeks Solution To Sugar Marketing Dispute

Categories: Electorate

Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, says the LNP is honouring its election commitment to try and find a fair and reasonable solution to the ongoing dispute between growers and millers concerning the future of sugar marketing arrangements in Queensland. Mr Cripps congratulated Shadow Agriculture Minister, Deb Frecklington – who yesterday released an exposure draft of the […]

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