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CRIPPS WELCOMES SETTLEMENT OF TR4 PROPERTY NEAR TULLY

Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, has welcomed news the sale of the TR4 infected property west of Tully by the Robson family to the Australian Banana Growers Council has been completed and settlement finalised, as a major step forward for the banana industry in North Queensland. Mr Cripps said after a marathon negotiation process over the […]

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TR4 FUNDING TO TULLY SUPPORT CENTRE DISCONTINUED

Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, has called on the Palaszczuk Government to restore funding to the Tully Support Centre to provide generalist counselling services to the community in the Tully district affected by the incursion of Panama Disease Tropical Race 4 (TR4). Speaking in the Queensland Parliament, Mr Cripps said in the wake of the March […]

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PANAMA DISEASE THREAT SERIOUS CHALLENGE FOR BANANA INDUSTRY

  Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, has expressed his serious concern about the reported identification of Panama Tropical Race 4 at a banana farm in the Tully district and said the issue posed a serious challenge for the banana industry and local communities. Mr Cripps said he understood samples of the suspected case of Panama Disease […]