21 May 2018
Farmers Know Best How To Care For Land On Which They Depend
Australian farmers are under unprecedented attack by environmental groups and left-leaning political parties. It’s time government ministers put the gloves on and jumped into the ring. On this page last week, Lyndon Schneiders, national director of the Wilderness Society, argued that land-clearing by farmers is a “key threat” to the environment and more must be done to counteract it. In
4 April 2018
Farmers Know Best How To Clear Their Own Land
The Palaszczuk government’s proposed regulations on native vegetation attack responsible farming and threaten agricultural development in regional Queensland. The changes, being considered by a parliamentary committee, reverse a policy that allows farmers to clear high-value agricultural land to put it to productive use. Those laws were a sensible attempt to find a balance between environmental conservation and agricultural development. They
