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Syulang

PSA: The #Crisafulli #LNP government of #Queensland wants to expand native forest logging as part of it's anti #conservation pro #logging "Primary Industries Prosper 2050" blueprint.

*Not* protect or continue native logging. No. The plan is to *EXPAND* it.

It's been carefully shuffled out of sight, being slid out under cover of all the noise from the federal parties during the election.

There is a consultation period now open. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE submit your thoughts on this proposal, and encourage others to do so. Our survival depends on our native forests. Without them there is no future for our land, and by extension no future for us - just eroding soils, dead rivers, dessicated land and mass extinction.

Defend life. Defend the land we belong to. Defend the forests that sustain us.

dpi.engagementhub.com.au/prima

#PSA#Deforestation#NativeForestLogging
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“A #Liberal-aligned #ThinkTank running last-minute #AntiGreens #advertisements targeting young voters received more than $600,000 from the #coal industry during last year’s #Queensland election, disclosures show.

On Monday evening, the #AustralianInstituteForProgress released a “Can you afford the Greens?” video advertisement pushing claims, based on its own commissioned research, that the Greens’ housing policies would lead to increased #rents.

Emails to supporters from the #AIP executive director, former Queensland Liberal vice-president #GrahamYoung, seeking #donations to push anti-Greens advertisements show the #campaign is specifically aimed at helping elect #LiberalNational party #candidates #TrevorEvans and #MaggieForrest in the seats of #Brisbane and #Ryan.”

This is why I use the term #LNPCrimeGang.

#AusPol / #Liberal / #Nationals / #LNP / #ThinkTanks / #democracy / #MaxChandlerMather / #ClimateEmergency / #HousingEmergency <theguardian.com/australia-news>

The Guardian · Liberal-aligned thinktank running anti-Greens ads received $600,000 from coal industry in Queensland electionBy Ben Smee
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Robert Sanscartier

"If you and the family, and the towns in which you live, are essentially making your livelihood out of livestock or mining, then significant action on climate change sounds like a threat," he said.

"I think there's a genuine sense of anxiety that climate action potentially equals the end of whole communities of families and their futures."

abc.net.au/news/2025-05-01/qld

ABC News · Climate action not swinging Queensland voters, despite 'worst ever' year for disastersBy Owen Jacques
#Queensland#Australia#ClimateChange
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Day 30 cont 🤪⛪️🗳️

“A separatist #ChristianSect which tells its members to hate the world and which objects to voting is campaigning for the #Liberal and #Nationals parties ahead of Saturday’s federal election. The #PlymouthBrethrenChristianChurch, formerly known as the #ExclusiveBrethren, has dispatched hundreds of its members to pre-polling booths in #MarginalSeats while instructing them to keep secret that they are members of the controversial #religion.

Workers in five marginal seats in Victoria and NSW told this masthead they had encountered 20 or more Brethren members wearing #Liberal or #National campaign T-shirts handing out how-to-vote cards, some of whom identified themselves as members of the sect. The seats – #Kooyong, #Gorton, #Hawke, #Gilmore and #Calare – are held by #Labor or #independents.

The accounts were backed by #LaborParty campaign sources, speaking anonymously because they were not authorised to speak publicly, who claimed the Brethren members were active in seats in #NSW, #Victoria, #Queensland and #Tasmania, including #Bennelong, #Parramatta, #Whitlam, #Macquarie, #Paterson, #Lyons, #Reid and #Blair.”

#AusPol / #extremism / #RightWing / #LNP / #Coalition / #voting <archive.md/osEeV> / <smh.com.au/politics/federal/ex> (paywall).

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JoeSilver

I just watched the Queensland floods special of #ABC #Landline and a few things stood out.

First, there were no perspectives from Aboriginal people or communities in western Queensland. I understand the show is primarily focused on farming, but you would think they could offer at least the same amount of airtime that they gave to the women rescuing her cats.

Second, half a million livestock are estimated to be drowned or starved as a consequence of the flooding, and there is an inevitability that future floods will occur. Should we be having a discussion about the ethics and viability of keeping livestock in western Queensland where flood and drought are so prevalent?

#Agriculture#Queensland#Floods
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“Labor’s Murray Watt has accused the #Greens of deliberately #misleading #voters in the tightly-contested #Queensland seat of #Griffith by distributing flyers in Liberal party blue that describe #MaxChandlerMather as an “independent voice”.

The flyers, seen by Guardian Australia, are light blue and read: “If you want a strong independent voice, preference Max Chandler-Mather above Labor”.

Nowhere do they mention that Chandler-Mather is the Greens candidate, though the flyers are authorised by the party’s Queensland state director, #KittyCarra.”

#AusPol / #TheGreens / #corflute <theguardian.com/australia-news>

The Guardian · Greens accused of misleading voters with flyer in tightly contested Brisbane seatBy Benita Kolovos
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