LAST Thursday was a sad day for farming families.
While LNP members fought hard to protect the land rights of farmers right across Queensland in Parliament, sadly this ignorant Labor Government was hell-bent on introducing their draconian vegetation management laws.
It was nothing more than an unprovoked brutal attack on hardworking farming families and proved that Labor has absolutely no respect for people living and working on the land.
We took the desperate pleas from farmers onto the floor of Parliament, but it fell on deaf ears as Annastacia Palaszczuk’s Government shut down debate and abused their numbers to ram destructive vegetation management laws through Parliament.
Labor’s unfair laws were passed and not a single one of the LNP’s sensible amendments were accepted.
To all of our farming families out there, I would like you to know how sorry I am that your voice meant nothing to this heartless government.
You have been let down by a government that cares for nothing but themselves and green votes.
Stephen Bennett MP
Member for Burnett
10 May 2018