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 […]
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RSS feed for this sectionCHANCE TO PROGRESS RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECT BUNGLED
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The rank hypocrisy of the Palaszczuk Government was on full display in State Parliament last night, with Labor voting against progressing the Tully Millstream project – a major renewable energy generation opportunity in North Queensland. LNP Shadow Minister for Northern Development, Andrew Cripps, who was denied an opportunity to speak during the debate by […]
STATEMENT – 1 YEAR SINCE VEGETATION MANAGEMENT BILL DEFEATED
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Today marks one year since the Palaszczuk Government’s unfair and unnecessary vegetation management bill was defeated in the Queensland Parliament. In the six months leading up to the bill failing to pass, there was a groundswell of opposition to Labor’s draconian and ideologically driven vegetation management policies. As the LNP Shadow Minister for Natural Resources, […]
Labor budget trick spins Natural Resource Management funding
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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 […]
Labor’s gas plan just hot air
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Annastacia Palaszczuk’s promises to deliver cheaper gas to Queensland households and industry nothing but hot air Despite promises that new land will be reserved for Queensland gas supply only, Anthony Lynham said companies will decide when that land comes into production There is zero proof a reservation policy will decrease gas prices The Palaszczuk […]
CORALEE SHORT-CHANGES NORTH QUEENSLAND
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The Palaszczuk Government’s representative in North Queensland has been caught out making unsubstantiated claims on key issues impacting the region she is supposed to represent. Shadow Minister for Northern Development, Andrew Cripps, asked Coralee O’Rourke questions about unemployment, crime and electricity costs in the north, during recent budget estimates. Mr Cripps said Labor’s Minister […]
Stalled leadership results in stalled department
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Confidence in the leadership of the DNRM has taken a dive under the Palaszczuk Labor Government Working for Queensland survey reveals key indicators associated with responsibility, engagement, effectiveness and innovation have declined at the DNRM Minister Anthony Lynham has been sidelined from key policy debates by Labor’s Jackie Trad’s led radical left wing Department […]
Labor to release less than 20 per cent of Gilbert water
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Palaszczuk Labor government stifles agricultural development and jobs on Lower Cape York Peninsula Labor releases just a fraction of 467,000 megalitres of available water released for agriculture from the Gilbert Catchment area Labor approach is anti-agriculture and anti-northern development Almost 11 months after the EIS process for the IFED project lapsed, the Palaszczuk Government has […]
Labor lies continue on vegetation management
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Labor continues to perpetrate lies over vegetation management practices in Queensland LNP reforms allowed farmers to sustainably manage vegetation and protect environment While Labor continues to demonise farmers, the LNP will stand up for them Labor’s Environment Minister Steven Miles, continued to deliberately lie about the former LNP Government’s 2013 reforms to the vegetation […]
STATEMENT – NOW IS THE TIME TO LOOK AT THE TULLY MILLSTREAM PROJECT AGAIN
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I have written to the Deputy Prime Minister, the Hon Barnaby Joyce MP, requesting that the Australian Government support an updated feasibility study for the Tully Millstream Hydroelectric Scheme (TMHS), north-west of Tully, in North Queensland. I strongly believe this project has great merit. A serious feasibility study has not been undertaken since the late […]
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