Matthew Canavan (Queensland, Liberal National Party, Minister for Resources and Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

As I was saying, we support the property rights of farmers to develop their own land. We support the ability of farmers to take these opportunities. To do so, sometimes they need to be able to clear their land, flatten it out and laser level it to grow food, and we support farmers doing that. But up in Queensland a deal has been done with the Greens to strip away property rights. That's why a farmer like Blair Angus, of Clermont, is saying that one-fifth of his farm is being stripped away from him because of these laws, and he is getting not a dollar in return—no compensation. It's an absolute outrage.