Comment | Farmers in Minister's firing line on Reef regulations

By Dale Stiller, Property Rights Australia
Updated April 24 2017 - 9:08pm, first published 8:47pm
Minister wields big stick on Reef regulations
Minister wields big stick on Reef regulations

Reef regulations according to Steven Miles, Minister for the Great Barrier Reef, are to be broadened and enhanced. The Department of Environment and Heritage Protection released a discussion paper to which Property Rights Australia responded in a submission, finding concern with returning to the approach of government wielding the big stick. This is disappointing for although this approach yields political results in inner urban electorates; in the field cooperation provides the results rather than government coercion.

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