Property Rights Australia

17/06/2026

Firey speech at National Press Club in Canberra

" Pauline Hanson has declared prime agricultural land "belongs to farmers, not government" and promised to end the "renewable energy bribery" underpinning Australia's energy transition.

On farmland, Senator Hanson described the renewable roll-out as an ideological policy agenda.

"Rewiring the nation to build useless transmission lines and destroy prime agricultural land, billions of taxpayer dollars; this will end," she said.

"Renewable energy by all means, but no more wind turbines to be put in, that will be scrapped; no more solar panels on agricultural land, gone; put it on top of your roofs, I don't care.

One Nation would also end government subsidies or renewable energy projects, including grants, tax incentives and concessional finance, "anything that sponsors the whole net zero hoax". "

Hanson tells Press Club: voters "sick and tired' of being ignored.

17/06/2026

This is US research but the results support the thrust of what practical foresters and firefighters say about fire in Australia.

What happens when wildfire reaches a managed forest?

Researchers examined nearly 300 wildfires across 11 western states and found that fuel treatments reduced wildfire spread, prevented an estimated 152,000 acres from burning, and avoided roughly $2.8 billion in damages. The study also found that every $1 invested in fuel treatments generated about $3.75 in avoided wildfire damages.

Read the full article:
https://healthyforests.org/2026/06/researchers-studied-300-wildfires-heres-what-they-found/

17/06/2026

Qld State government overreach with its Critical Minerals & Other Amendments Bill was the subject of an interview PRA Board member, Jim Willmott, did with Dobbo this morning on the Rural Qld Today radio show.

The Bill raises major concerns because it does far more than facilitate critical minerals development. It introduces broad new powers for projects considered strategically important to Queensland. Those powers may apply to projects beyond critical minerals, including resource projects, energy infrastructure, water security infrastructure, defence facilities, downstream processing and other projects considered to be of State or regional significance.

Property Rights Australia is concerned that the Bill forms part of a broader pattern of reform in which project delivery is accelerated, regulatory friction is reduced and decision making is centralised, while agricultural safeguards, review rights and independent scrutiny are not strengthened to the same degree.

Reading the Bill, Explanatory Statements or Briefing Paper - in all three documents there is no mention of considering agricultural land use impacts, property rights, or impacts of infrastructure easements on agriculture

This imbalance must be corrected.

Listen to the interview here:
https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/resonate-radio/episodes/Jim-Willmott--Property-Rights-Australia--State-government-overreach--17-June-e3ksscu

16/06/2026

"Transmission line have been around for decades - why whinge about them now"
and
"It is just one solar farm important for climate targets - you are a selfish NIMBY"

This article demostrates the facility of those couple of common social media retorts.

These landowners at Goorambat (east of Shepparton, northern Vic) farm under old transmission lines but they will now have additional lines for renewable energy industrialisation and the restrictions imposed will make it near impossible to work their farm.
There is one solar facility underconstruction next door, another approaved on the othe side of this property and now a battery storage proposal has turned up. The problem is little planning, consultation, transparency and no consideration of cumilative impacts.

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"Daniel and Nick have previously has "no issues" operating their respective farms beneath 2.7km of historic transmission lines that have bisected their family's property for more than 60 years

The Hooper family's next big concern is potential changes to or a complete rebuild of the 2.7 kilometres of transmission lines that travel through their property.

New regulations for modern, higher-voltage transmission lines prohibit landholders from using the land within the easement, or operating anything over three metres under the power lines.

"We've operated under them for years and we never had any issues with the old agreement we have had," Daniel said.

"But if we're not allowed to drive anything over three metres beneath these new transmission lines then that's half my farm I can't access to crop.

"We'll be landlocked on our own farms." "

Two cousins are battling solar, battery and transmission lines.

16/06/2026

International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists 2026

" Covering around 75% of the Australian continent, rangelands are synonymous with the outback and deeply embedded in the nation’s identity, economy and culture.

For Paul Smith [Tieyon Station], being a pastoralist is about far more than running cattle.

“Being able to make and create is what I love. That calf goes on to feed people, and the surplus is exported and contributes to the nation,” Mr Smith said.

Mr Smith said pastoralism in the rangelands required resilience, patience and the confidence to make difficult decisions in uncertain conditions.

“We’re producing protein and energy in places you’ll never be able to crop,” he said. "

As part of the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists 2026 (IYRP), the Northern Territory Department of Agriculture and Fisheries is celebrating the people behind the pastoral industry and recognising the important role rangelands play across Australia. Covering around 75% of the Australi...

16/06/2026

The headline is correct - if passed, underthe two seperate State Development amendments for the Taroom Trough and Critical Minerals the Planning Minister can make compulsory acquisitions and force access onto landowner's properties. There has been a very worrying change of direction in recent months where over the top powers are being put into place that will leave landowners at considerable disadvantage. There are also existing considerable powers held by the Office of the Coordinator General if the government declared a project to be of state significance.

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"The government’s proposed laws to fast-track critical minerals and eco-tourism projects would hand the State Development Minister power to take land, and remove an owner’s right to appeal.

While the government can already acquire land – largely for transport projects – Mr Bleijie’s proposed laws would “widen the types of projects for which the power may be deployed”.

Developments considered “of greatest significance to the state” would be considered by the Office of the Coordinator-General, but Mr Bleijie would then have the power to overrule the decision or direct that a project bypass current laws, including environment or heritage laws. "

Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie will get expanded powers to seize private land to make way for major projects deemed significant to Queensland.

16/06/2026

15/06/2026

'Critical Minerals Bill raises questions about agriculture’s future'
Media Release from Property Rights Australia

Queensland farmers are warning that the State’s quick-fire series of legislation amendments aimed to facilitate projects considered strategically important to Queensland have the potential to provide negative consequences to the future protection of agricultural land and regional communities.

The State Development and Public Works Organisation (Critical Minerals) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2026 follows closely behind planning measures for the Taroom Trough and the earlier changes that were supposed to address coal seam gas subsidence impacts on the Darling Down’s Condamine Alluvium.

Property Rights Australia Chair, Dale Stiller, said “Few farmers dispute the need for efficient decision-making or the importance of major projects to Queensland's economy. The unresolved question with the Queensland government’s boots and all approach is why there isn’t equivalent effort being directed towards protecting agricultural land and farming businesses under these changes making available significant new powers to accelerate resource development.”

While the Bill is being promoted as an initiative for critical minerals, such as copper, silicon, graphite, vanadium, magnet metals; it applies much more broadly to any project of State or regional significance, from water security, energy infrastructure, to downstream processing. It creates new powers for major projects including expanded authority for land access, compulsory land acquisition, commencement of activity before completion of environmental assessment, and restricted appeal opportunities for landowners while project proponents retain full appeal rights. These provisions raise questions about bargaining power, adequate compensation and landholder agreements.

“Left unrestrained, the cumulative effect could be crushing for landowners,” said Mr Stiller, “This will be far worse than the current CSG negotiation regime. Farmers left exposed, powerless and the ability to protect strategic cropping land neutralised.”

The period provided for the public to respond to this latest Bill is only 23 days, only a little more than half of the recommended six weeks.

Property Rights Australia has called on the Queensland Parliament's Primary Industries and Resources Committee extend the period for submissions and hearings.

“There is a lot at stake here” said Mr Stiller, “Full consideration needs to be given to the protection of landowner’s rights and this Nation’s food security to be kept in balance with fuel security and economic development.”

Queensland farmers are warning that the State’s quick-fire series of legislation amendments aimed to facilitate projects considered strategically important to Queensland have the potential to provide negative consequences to the future protection of agricultural land and regional communities.

15/06/2026

The Crisafulli Government announced funding of $330.5 million for the Great Barrier Reef. [1]

Heating up is an absurd pantomime in the lead up to the July meeting of the World Heritage Committee where UNESCO could again push to list the GBR as “in danger”. It is a theatre where some actors and portraying the reef in dire condition and the likes of government countering this to say they are investing in the future of a healthy reef.

Three weeks ago the Federal government announced funding of $92 million that according to Environment and Water Minister Murray Watt, " was about giving the reef a fighting chance". [2]

The false alarmism goes beyond the pale in the statements made in this article about a letter written to the UN in April by Australian Climate and Biodiversity Foundation, Greenpeace, the Australian Conservation Foundation, WWF Australia, and the Wilderness Society. [3] Nonsense such as cowboy beef farmers have to be stopped tree clearing which causes tonnes of sediment to choke corals.

The Australian Marine Conservation Society is saying that to improve reef health government must take stronger action on climate change. [4]

None of the above in our opinion is based on science. What is the Crisafulli Government doing in their funding announcement giving credibility to the notion to save the reef it must reduce sediment, nutrients and pesticides?

There is a body of work designed to give scientific guidance on government GBR policy. It is called the Reef Scientific Consensus Statement.

About sediment it states, Sediment runoff from land only affects ecosystems nearest the mainland . Inner shelf turbidity is mainly influenced by wave-driven and tidal resuspension. [5]

About nutrients - Increased levels of nutrients have no negative impact on seagrass ecosystems, GBR wetlands and freshwater streams. [6]

About pesticides - Pesticide detection does not infer impacts. Low levels of pesticide mixtures have been detected in monitored fresh, estuarine and marine waters of the GBR. Pesticides are not detected offshore. [7]

[1] https://statements.qld.gov.au/statements/105301
[2] https://www.indailyqld.com.au/news/just-in/2026/05/21/lifeline-for-reef-in-fight-against-in-danger-ruling
[3] https://www.couriermail.com.au/technology/environment/australian-environment-groups-write-to-un-over-fears-for-great-barrier-reef
[4] used as image for this post.
https://theqldr.com.au/queensland-news/2026/06/15/reef-62/
[5] https://www.facebook.com/PropertyRightsAustralia/posts/pfbid0fVbwif8WYVRRToaSBEvJ6FeS4YF3YKw5vRiNFwJVXtR9MbxHQZSWY6pb4YBLpM2Gl
[6] https://www.facebook.com/PropertyRightsAustralia/posts/pfbid0vv9GGiAUpXGbTEujrSRic4xuAo9VpyZUwcWoVdV4wwHM7DHiVyLQLsMY75VKF69bl
[7] https://www.facebook.com/PropertyRightsAustralia/posts/pfbid0jVZko8BpQMdq7whgicRRQaKXTzkVDAg2fn5TfxxiSvqGZkeQav9n84C5eRu2XvyAl

15/06/2026

The federal Labor government can find millions to fund an inhumane brumby shooting program in Kosciusko national park to the exclusion of all other options but has cut every invasive species program it can in the budget including for feral pigs which are a far greater threat.
The NSW Nationals have pledged $300m for feral pig eradication if they win government.
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“Opposition leader Kellie Sloane said biosecurity threats risked becoming commonplace without intervention.
"I've seen first-hand the devastating impact of feral pigs on the farming sector, eating newborn lambs, damaging water sources, fences and pasture, and raiding agricultural crops," Ms Sloane said.
"Without urgent action on biosecurity, our agricultural industries are at serious risk."
https://www.theland.com.au/story/9291414/nsw-nationals-and-liberals-pledge-300-million-for-biosecurity/?

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