BSA Member update and new committee
Thank you to those who attended our AGM recently. The evening proved to be an excellent opportunity for sharing and dialogue between researchers, politicians and landholders.
Cripps: I’ve enhanced landholders’ rights
Mines Minster Andrew Cripps has hit back at claims that landholder rights have been eroded under changes to laws regulating coal mining and coal seam gas developments.
Qld landholders deserve better than Cripps’ smears
Qld landholders deserve better than Cripps’ smears
Make good on water bores an obligation
Statutory ‘make good’ obligations have been extended to water bore owners affected by mineral resources projects, similar to those that presently apply to the petroleum and gas sector.
PRA: Regional Queensland deserves better
Regional Queensland deserves better. Agricultural producers did not deserve to be labelled environmental vandals under the previous government and they don’t deserve the slur made by Minister Andrew Cripps when he said…
Laws strip rural rights
Landholders have been hit hard after the Queensland Government passed a law that will take away their rights to object to resource developments.
BSA dismayed by destruction of landholder rights in new law
The Queensland Government’s decision to ignore landholders’ concerns and pass a law that takes away the right for landholders and community groups to object to resource developments has left rural Queenslanders feeling abandoned, according to the BSA.
BSA Annual General Meeting
Help us keep up the fight for a better future for our farms, families and communities.
BSA stands up for landholder rights at hearing
BSA committee members Neil Cameron and Peter Shannon represented BSA at the Parliamentary Committee hearing in Toowoomba (on 19th August) on the increasingly notorious Mineral & Energy Resources (Common Provisions) Bill.
Farmer urges landholders to object to State Govt bill
Macalister farmer David Hamilton is speaking out against a new State Government bill he calls “unfair and unreasonable”.