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Hearing to discuss the health effects of 2019-2020 bushfires

The 2019-2020 bushfire season saw 11,000 hectares of land devastated in Livingstone Shire.

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29th July 2020 11:07 AM

This image was captured of the Cobraball bushfire burning in the early stages near Old Byfield Road in late 2019. Picture: Contributed

Growers take fight to Brisbane to protect $42 million

‘Growers don’t learn by being pulled from pillar to post’. Claims organic green reforms in farming being ignored.

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28th July 2020 4:07 PM

Mackay chairman Kevin Borg said farmers were already embracing reef protections, with a huge uptick in the voluntary Smartcane BMP program. Picture: Kirili Lamb

Mackay growers lead charge in reef bill battle

Farmers plead for change to reef bill: ‘Why do we want a bureaucratic baseball bat to wack cane farmers?’

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27th July 2020 3:07 PM

Farleigh grower and Canegrowers chairman Paul Schembri told senators Queensland growers could lose $1.3 billion over ten years if the regulations were imposed. Photo contributed.

HAPPENING NOW: ’Suspicious’ farm rules flagged at reef probe

Cane farmers and marine scientists brief inquiry into State Government regulations.

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27th July 2020 1:07 PM

Fraser Coast canegrowers lobbied against the laws.

Senate inquiry hearing to be held in Brisbane next week

THE Senate’s Rural Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee will conduct a hearing in Brisbane next Monday.

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13th March 2020 4:03 PM

Glenn Sterle will be in Brisbane on Monday for the second hearing of the Senate Inquiry into the road transport industry.

Veteran driver calls out ‘harassment’ in podcast

THIRTY years ago, veteran truck driver Keith Littler was fed up with the state of Australia’s road transport industry.

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18th Feb. 2020 3:02 PM

Keith Littler was the most recent guest on the Transport Inquiry Podcast

Have your say on labour shortage crisis, worker exploitation

Views being sought on temporary migration.

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16th Feb. 2020 6:02 AM

INQUIRY: The labour shortage crisis and migrant worker exploitation are to be explored.

Transport operators need to be heard during inquiry

Dubbo trucking operator Sally Tipping implores others in the industry to have their say.

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10th Feb. 2020 11:02 AM

GRASS ROOTS SUPPORT: WA senator Glenn Sterle took time out to see Sally and get behind her Wave To A Truckie campaign.

Senate Inquiry hears Inland Rail route is not set in stone

THE MAN in charge of Australian Rail Track Corporation’s Inland Rail project has admitted that no section of the route was...

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31st Jan. 2020 7:01 AM

Richard Wankmuller, CEO Inland Rail, Australian Rail Track Corporation.

Couple to spend 65th anniversary at Inland Rail inquiry

TODAY is Ted and Margaret Kelly’s 65th wedding anniversary – a day that the couple would rather to have spent celebrating...

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29th Jan. 2020 5:01 AM

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