Monday, June 25

LNP moves to sooth farmers' mining tensions

ELIZABETH JACKSON: Angry Queensland farmers say they're being ignored while governments pander to multibillion dollar mine projects. The Queensland Government recently announced two railway corridors would criss-cross central Queensland grazing properties to get coal to ports.  Under the plan, land could be taken but farmers say the railways will disrupt floodplains and harm production.

Annie Guest reports from Brisbane.

ANNIE GUEST: In the battle of cattle versus coal, the latter is king according to central Queensland grazier John Burnett.

JOHN BURNETT: Central Queensland is presently in the grip of a devastating avalanche of development.

We have landholders who are being impacted by the biggest development proposals in Australia bar none.

ANNIE GUEST: His property is among those earmarked for some of the $8 billion in rail lines.

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