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Land clearing laws have been a political football for decades. [13] From the 1970s onwards unions and environmentalists have challenged the clearing of forests, beaches and other specific sites. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Since the 1980s, the rate of land clearing has declined due to changing attitudes and greater awareness of the damaging effects of the ...
There were various land acts in between these dates which dealt with a variety of specialized land settlement policies and developments e.g. village settlements in country areas (very small blocks), commune settlements (1890s), irrigation developments etc. Village settlement land files are held by the Queensland State Archives. [3]
The Acquisition of Land Act 1967 (ALA) is an Act of the Parliament of Queensland. The ALA establishes authority for the Queensland Government to acquire land for specific purposes including the creation of roads, railways, and other essential infrastructure.
The Morrison government announced an inquiry into land-clearing laws following the Queensland bushfires. The Queensland Government had introduced laws against broad-scale land-clearing in May 2018, and David Littleproud said "If Queensland’s laws are locking up agriculture’s potential and making fires worse, we need to know about it". [142]
Until recently Australia had a very high rate of land clearing, which resulted in the destruction of bushland. [5] Since 2006 the rate of land clearing has declined significantly. This is partially attributed to legislation that placed a ban on broad scale clearing of mature bushland in Queensland in 2006 and an expansion of those bans to ...
Each state in Australia has a different regime for the regulation and bureaucratisation of land. Property law is a largely statute-based but continues in important aspects to be influenced by the common law and principles that originate from Australia's history as a British colony, where land and estate law developed through the ambit of feudalism.
Selection is the act of choosing and acquiring a subdivided tract of land for farming purposes in Australia. A selection is also descriptive of the plot of land that was selected. The term derived from "free selection before survey" of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. These acts were ...
The consequences of land clearing include dryland salinity and soil erosion. These are a major concern to the landcare movement in Australia. Soil salinity affects 50,000 km 2 of Australia and is predominantly due to land clearance. The clearing of native vegetation is controlled by Federal laws (indirectly), State law and local planning ...