A requirement for Longreach Regional Council exclusion fence builders to be licensed is causing concern

Sally Gall
Updated April 27 2017 - 12:08pm, first published 6:49am
Fencing dilemma: The Queensland Building and Construction Commission has ruled that people putting up cluster fencing as part of the Longreach Regional Council scheme must be licensed.
Fencing dilemma: The Queensland Building and Construction Commission has ruled that people putting up cluster fencing as part of the Longreach Regional Council scheme must be licensed.

Bureaucratic red tape is threatening to undermine not only the Longreach Regional Council’s $18m cluster fencing scheme but potentially the wider exclusion fencing program being undertaken around Queensland.

Sally Gall

Sally Gall

Senior journalist - Queensland Country Life/North Queensland Register

Based at Blackall, CW Qld, where I've raised a family, run Merino sheep and beef cattle, and helped develop a region - its history, tourism, education and communications. Get in touch at 0427 575 955 if you've got a story idea for me.

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