NSW "is not Queensland" when it comes to a controversial overhaul of land clearing laws, the state government has insisted, while promising to reverse decades of biodiversity decline. Announcing laws that will give greater flexibility to farmers, the government said they would not result in broadscale clearing witnessed when Campbell Newman's Queensland government overhauled its regime. The laws saw almost 300,000 hectares of bushland cleared in 2013-14 alone. But Environment Minister Mark Speakman said: "This is not Queensland." Advertisement He promised "a wider range of checks and balances in place to make sure that what we might have seen in Queensland does not...
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