Wednesday, March 28

Activist hopeful of LNP ignoring Palmer

An anti-coal seam gas activist is confident Queensland Premier Campbell Newman will make decisions about mining projects free from backer Clive Palmer's influence.

Drew Hutton says the Liberal National Party government should be more open to protecting Bimblebox Nature Refuge, near Alpha, than Labor was.

Mr Palmer's company Waratah Coal wants to mine it.

Mr Hutton, president of the Lock the Gate Alliance, says the LNP has a stronghold in rural Queensland and must serve the voters who elected them, not a mining magnate who finances them.

"I always look on the bright side and Campbell Newman is a new broom," Mr Hutton told AAP on Wednesday.

"The old government, from Lock the Gate's point of view, was clearly hostile and let the mining industry rip up rural Queensland.

"They (Labor) had no vested interest in looking after those people and the LNP clearly does.

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Brisbane Times

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