Sunday, September 25

Off Limits

Queensland's Labor Government is set to throw a protective cordon around prime farmland at the expense of gas and mining developments. Not surprisingly the resources sector says Anna Bligh's gone too far. Yet farmers in one of the state's best cropping areas are angry too that an exemption has already been given to a proposed coal mining project.

As Peter McCutcheon found during a visit to Queensland's Central Highlands, defining what constitutes prime farmland is proving just as difficult.


ABC News

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