Member for Burnett Stephen Bennett is encouraging landholders to join the fight against new vegetation management laws and restrictions.
Mr Bennett said an online petition had been launched in a desperate final bid to stop proposed new aggressive vegetation management laws.
The call comes as fears mount that the Palaszczuk government will introduce tough new anti-agriculture vegetation management laws into parliament as early as next week.
“I encourage all landholders in our region to make sure their voices are heard by signing the e-petition against these draconian, aggressive reforms,” Mr Bennett said.
“We all know that in the last parliament the Labor Government introduced some of the worst anti-agriculture vegetation management reforms that landholders had seen in the last 20 years.
“This government is making our landholders out to be criminals, but in reality they are more than capable of sustainably managing regrowth on their own lands.”
Mr Bennett said the parliamentary petition was an opportunity for landholders and the wider community to register their protest against Labor’s policy to tighten vegetation management laws.
“Make no mistake about it, the Palaszczuk Labor Government’s rollback of the LNPs workable and practical vegetation management framework will remove property rights, reduce the productivity of the agricultural sector and threaten jobs in our region,” he said.
“This petition is an easy yet influential way for the Bundaberg and Burnett community to send a message to the government that we object to the way our landholders are being treated.”
The petition closes on March 29 at tinyurl.com/y7prno49.
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Friday, 2 March 2018