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Permalink Reply by Dinah Aram on January 12, 2010 at 9:10pm

just taking some excerpts:
"... been locked up by this intrusive legislation which allowed no development ..." Mr.Pearson was concerned "that this inability to have the flexibility to develop" ....."industries would inhibit the ability of future generations to lift themselves out of poverty."

"The extreme Greens in the public service and those who did a deal over preferences in the Queensland elections are masters of scaremongering tactics who conjure up visions of intrusive and destructive mining, horticulture and aquaculture to convince people in the South East corner that all development is evil."

....sounds ALL TOO SIMILAR for my liking. Wild Rivers Legislation, Native Vegetation legislation.....same bloke, different haircut, and it's not just Qld.

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Permalink Reply by Matt Thompson on January 13, 2010 at 7:53am

I can tell you from experience. In actual practice, thuggish bureaucrats would use this to tie up any property they wanted.
In my case, they called a low spot in the paddock that doesn't even run water in the wet season a river. If they say it is a wild river then it is so, and the property owner has no recourse.

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Permalink Reply by Joanne Rea on January 13, 2010 at 8:59am

This article in The Age shows Environment minister Stephen Robertson being just too cute.
He says development is hard wired into the legislation.
However the legislation states that the assesment manager must not issue development permits in High Conservation Areas and such applications are to be refused. With HCA being anywhere within a kilometer of a stream, tributory or associated wetland, in an area such as this which is criss-crossed by waterways it means that it is ALL virtually locked up.
As fot the mining which the Greens today are saying will take place all over the Cape: nothing stops the mining and bauxite mining is already carried out in spite of the Wild Rivers Declaration. Now THAT'S scaremongering and dishonest to boot.
http://www.theage.com.au/environment/water-issues/queensland-slams-...

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Permalink Reply by Allan Maurice Taylor on January 13, 2010 at 10:08am

Would these Green bureaucrats be able to get a REAL job in the REAL world doing something useful for society, like making or growing something? I don't think so.
They have created a useless bureaucracy which provides cushy jobs for their Green mates.
Allano

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Permalink Reply by John Nethery on January 13, 2010 at 11:27am

Joanne,
As a resident of lower Cape York I support your statement and support Tony Abbott for bringing this issue into the Federal sphere. In case Agmates people did not see it I attach below my letter that was published in The Australian late last year. It speaks for itself:

"It is pleasing that Cape York and the Wild Rivers legislation are making front page news and the editorials (19/10/09). Some geographic facts may help to put perspective on landuse issues. The peninsula occupies some 200,000 square kilometres, about the size of Victoria. The impact of humans is minimal and largely confined to the vicinity of the skeletal road system, as anyone who has driven to the tip knows. Population of this vast area, excluding Cairns is about 30,000 and much of this is focused in the southeastern corner. Ten National Parks cover about 20% of the area, granted mining leases about 2% and actual mining operations about 0.2%. The pastoral industry utilises very low density open-range cattle grazing. Aboriginal communities are highly concentrated and their surrounding country is to a large extent unoccupied. What little human impact there is has always been critically dependant on the the fresh-water rivers.

Throw into this benign veneer of civilisation The Wilderness Society, whose political influence in the big termites' nest of Brisbane is inversely proportional to their bush common sense and geographic knowledge of the region, and you have a simmering hot-bed of discontent. Anna Bligh you have stirred up a hornets' nest. Be careful lest it come back to bite you."

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Permalink Reply by Joanne Rea on January 15, 2010 at 1:33pm

Thanks for the info John.
Stephen Robertson has written in The Australian today that Tony Abbott should read the legislation.
That's useless unless you read it with a map and then you can see that he is just being dishonest.

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Permalink Reply by greg rauchle on January 18, 2010 at 3:53pm

Here is a link to a further story about this:-

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/labor-connives-with-gr...

Clearly this is very similiar to the situation with Peter Spencer and other farmers Australia wide.
In effect landholder's rights have beeen removed without compensation!

I wonder what is next target?
Maybe urban property rights?

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