Queensland Labor has this week purchased two western Queensland cattle stations, with the more than 200,000 hectares of land to be added to the Protected Areas Estate.
Tonkoro Station, near Longreach and Melrose Station, near Winton, contain habitat for rare and critically endangered species. So does every other cattle and sheep property across the state.
Tonkoro, at 341,000 acres was running 4500 head of cattle with the ability to carry 6000 head. The 180,000 acre Melrose has been running 2500 head cattle or previously has carried 10,000 sheep.
These properties have been taken out of production to be handed over to Aborigines. The extensive fixed improvements on these places, in line with QPWS policy, systematically will be pulled down and disposed of in the property dump.
Local service towns, schools, councils, saleyards, tradesmen, fuel suppliers, grocery stores and local employment are the first to suffer from the loss of these farming families and their employees. National parks and protected areas do not pay council rates yet expect the same amount of roadworks to be done by the local council.
Queensland Labor parks and wildlife policy, under the guise of saving the environment, is to remove any traces of human settlement. Based on experiences of other similar properties these environmental vandals have acquired, they will remove all man-made watering points such as windmills and troughs, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on earth moving equipment to bulldoze fences, dams and bore drains, fill in water bores with dirt and rocks, then knock down older homes and sheds, raze stock yards and any other infrastructure.
All done with taxpayers funds. The native animals and birds usually perish after the water has been removed. Any natural watercourses are seasonal and in the dry season birds and marsupials disappear.
Labor claims securing these properties will also help protect the headwaters of the Queensland section of the Lake Eyre Basin, one of the last remaining free-flowing arid river systems in the world. Much of western Queensland performs this function.
The former owners of these properties have done a tremendous job protecting these properties over the past 130 years if they now have any areas worthy of so-called protection.
QPWS is notorious for its mismanagement of the vast areas of viable grazing country it has acquired and handed over to Aboriginal groups. Cape York Peninsula is a great example.
The purchase of Tonkoro Station near Longreach and almost all of Melrose Station near Winton will enable the more than 200,000 hectares of land acquired to be added to Queensland’s protected area.
The acquisitions are part of Labor’s commitment to sterilise Queensland’s protected areas, which now totals more than 14.51 million hectares (36 million acres). Together, Tonkoro and Melrose stations represent a nationally significant protected area acquisition under the government’s $262.5 million funding package for protected area expansion.
These two properties will also make a major contribution to protecting the headwaters of the Queensland section of the Lake Eyre Basin, one of the last remaining free-flowing arid river systems in the world and one of Australia’s most important inland catchments. This is all the more reason to keep these environmental vandals out of food production areas.
Both properties contain regional ecosystems and biodiversity values which are either not represented, or are under-represented, in Queensland’s existing protected area estate. This claim is nonsense. The state has acquired far too many similar properties in Queensland which has in effect helped to depopulate the west.
These acquisitions will consolidate suitable habitat for a range of rare and endangered species, including the critically endangered Night Parrot and the highly restricted Opalton Grasswren.
Acquiring the properties will protect, in perpetuity, two significant indigenous cultural landscapes. Tonkoro Station adjoins Goneaway National Park and is known to be part of the lands of the Maiawali people and Melrose Station adjoins Bladensburg National Park which is part of the lands of the Koa People.
Planning and engagement with First Nations people and local stakeholders will commence in the coming months. This will help determine capital and operating funding required to develop suitable infrastructure and land management operations which will create jobs and economic benefits for local communities.
Future opportunities for ecotourism will also be explored. Would an incoming LNP government return these and many other similar properties back into economic production? No.
The United Nations Rights of Indigenous People are sacrosanct.
Rich said – “… when the one Million Dollars daily the Abo’s are given by the Government, is not there for them to take and use…”
No-one said the money fountain is going to be switched off.
One thing has nothing to do with the other, after all – or perhaps they do, SYNERGISTICALLY, with the same end objective.
Perhaps there are no more people left, after the original station owners retire or die, to run these cattle stations, it is not a way of life many of us, not Abo, but Aussies, would know how to do, or for that matter, want to. I don’t see the average Abo wanting to be out there, on one of these, now vacant and returned to nature, cattle stations, when the one Million Dollars daily the Abo’s are given by the Government, is not there for them to take and use in other ways, closer to home. Perhaps the closure of the cattle stations has to do with the longer term unnecessary need, of feeding the multitudes remaining, after vaccines have decimated the populations, which don’t exist any more, after all, we can’t see the bigger picture or how it is evolving, because we are not included in having to know that sort of information, by our assumed betters.
Hey Allison – are you in the Aussie TV Program “Aussie Opal Hunters” I watch whenever it is available for download off the internet? Is it “really” that easy to find Opals, or is it a hard slog, with little Opal finding rewards? Do you Black-light your recovered ground, to find any Opals you might have missed?
I am an opal miner on a restricted area very close to these properties, and we have word that the property we mine on has also been approached. I don’t know much about politics, and after reading many of the above comments, I definitely don’t know what the hell everyone is talking about…… it’s just way over the average hard working persons head. What I do know is that the QRIDP which the Department of Natural Resources are pushing now, has serious consequences and rendering the small scale mining industry nearly extinct. This is another nail in the coffin for the working people in regional areas. Labour will never receive another vote of mine.
Wot pisses me off is that the remote Aboriginal populations have little to do with this “Voice by stealth” agenda.
And what pisses me off even more is that the non Aboriginal slime who are predominantly pushing this racial SEPARATISM will pull their arses out and leave the remote Aboriginal communities to carry the can when the blowback occurs.
It will happen, no doubt about that. But only when we Aussies run out of beer and BBQ fuel.
If all these areas of hinterland are purchased by government for Aboriginal groups then I presume the inhabitants will be required to live as their ancestors.
Build their own mia-mias as require from time to time, hunt for their food and search for their own water supply, without white-man clothing or blankets for a cold night. Make fires by carrying fire sticks or rubbing pieces of wood together.
If some Aboriginals don’t want to live as white-man then the alternative is there. Not a very pleasant one from where I sit. Of course there would be no need of Social Securities because there is no where to spend money in the wild.
However politicians of all colours don’t think in these terms. Always, the vote and serving the Globalists.
Skippy said – “Let me commence in clarifying…”
Them thar’s some dangerous words. Some folk around here don’t take kindly to all that new-fangled TRUTH.
State Government goes in at around 10 per cent over market price and always gets their man. Ed
Yeah these properties are too far away for the floorboard burning mobs. Ed
Labor is expecting $500 m from cameras this year.ED
Bob Katter was a freemason many years ago as were the entire Cabinet of the Bjelke Petersen government, except Joh. Not a mason? No membership of the National Party. Katter is about the only survivor and discarded masonry 30 years ago. He knows about it and has told me so when I asked him about 5 years ago. Freemasonry at a branch level these days is as tame as the CWA. I would be more afraid of the Girl Guides. Ed
Let me commence in clarifying there is NO SUCH THING as a “ significant indigenous cultural landscape“.
These fraudsters ever more loudly and aggressively proclaiming themselves “First Nations Peoples”—and demanding every ostensible entitlement that status supposedly ought confer—are nothing of the sort.
Abo and Pretendy Abo’s, their venal agenda and vindictive narratives, are predicated upon the fraudulent assertion that there was but one single, glorious, thereafter altogether unblemished migration of noble ancestors of theirs 65,000 years ago—or so, back in ’The Dreamtime’.
Rubbish!
Cairns News has ably helped in broadening understanding that there have been a dozen or more human (even hominid) migrations to this Great Southern Land prior to 1788.
Did each subsequent group of these Stone Age invaders (since they weren’t the first anymore) wait around to be invited?
Did they have the patience and kindness to be ‘Welcomed to Country’ wherever they spread?
No!
They inevitably clashed and in the majority of cases fought to the death any other tribes they encountered and competed with for land and resources.
Abos know this. Their meretricious ‘academic’ accomplices know this.
There’s little or no truth in what any of them call ‘Truth telling’.
On the contrary, it is a vast enterprise in fabrication of narratives to serve the venal interests of those proclaiming themselves to be Aboriginal.
That and a no less cynical and aggressive ongoing effort to smear and silence anyone challenging their false narratives, and denigrate and discredit these—all the more the more verifiable and factual they be.
And just what is there to especially admire or even regard as ‘culture’ with whatever shambles we see displayed by these imposters, these so called Aboriginals?
Yet we are constantly bullied and browbeaten into having to pretend and behave as if the habits and primitive behaviour of this lot are not merely admirable, but somehow superior to the culture and achievements of Western civilisation.
This treacherous action of QLD Labor also smacks of the NNWO’s (New Normal World Order) ceaseless endeavours to destroy agricultural production, and so our food supplies, as a pillar in their malefic and totalitarian designs to usher in UN Agenda 2030, the ‘Great Reset’, and the Beyond Orwellian NNWO in which we peoples will own nothing, and not be happy so much as dead.
That and another form of the Cloward Piven strategy to destroy the nation financially.
State or Federal, Labor has been a Party of treason ever since Whitlam.
However, admittedly, when as a nation we are collectively indebted to the Rothschild headed private banking cartels to the tune of nearly nine trillion dollars (almost $350,000 for every man, woman and child in the country) how much sovereignty and autonomy might we expect?
Not a day goes by nowadays when we’re not nagged about our ‘carbon footprint’.
The war on cash, and common sense, only grows more radical and extreme.
And when was the last time you saw an ad on the telescreen featuring both a male and female heterosexual White couple—unless they were over 50 and past their reproductive years?
It’s all part and parcel of the one Long March Through the Institutions to destroy Australia, and the West.
These apex globalist predators can and will make this sold out nation’s citizens lives very miserable indeed, should we dare stand up to them and their malignant and malefic schemes.
To paraphrase a phrase—they have six days and ways from Sunday to get back at you.
Anyway Queenslanders, do us all a giant favour and show these Labor traitors the door.
Nationally, we must shun, indeed ban, everything Abo from these bogus, phony, insulting and insufferable ‘Welcome to Country’ pantomimes all the way up to their loftiest avaricious ambition (it’s all part and parcel of the one overarching nation stealing agenda) and return our nation to its rightful owners—True Blue Aussies, and every productive and law abiding newer migrant.
Enjoy Australia Day.
🇦🇺 And Make Australia Great Again! 🇦🇺
They know perfectly well these enterprises will fail, all adding to the food shortage in due course. Farming is for those who will get up and go to work every day.
There’s a few typical Queensland racists ranting here below, fittingly, too stupid to comprehend that it is white academics and ideologues who are doing the damage. The Aborigines, as usual, have no idea what is going on.
Meanwhile it is a shame that Tony Pitt’s name had to appear on the same page. Tony Pitt was the diametric opposite of these ignorant grubs. He was a super-patriot, dedicated his entire life to the betterment of Queenslanders, and published away until old age forced him to down his pen. I was proud to be associated with him, even if only by writing in the same vein.
Unfortunately, the demands of Resistance keep me on the move but one day I will enjoy catching up to both the traitors who are destroying stations, and the racist grubs who give CN a bad name. I will show them that the pen may well be mightier than the sword but I am adapt at both but prefer the latter.
Anton: the QLD is technically a foreign country, because the Upper House was suspended sine die-to a later date, decades and decades ago. And, yes, the UN is dictating the policy, but it seems that the “…allegiance to a foreign power …” charge is not such a scary one anymore.
So then: Bob Katter? Allegedly a Freemason, so no use at all-all bark and no bite like some others I could mention.
So what now?
The aboriginal corporations must accept he same commercial liability as any other corporations, including local councils, and governments too, and, in effect are subject to what I did here, from this Cairns News story:
https://cairnsnews.org/2024/01/09/council-watch-groups-bleat-about-unaccountability-but-reject-liability-solution/
My local Geelong Wathaurong Blackfellas I have been told are majority ring-ins having come from Ballarat, some 50 miles away, and are not the real deal. Bit they are getting their hooks into local sustainability groups (funded by local UN-allied councils) and are on the cusp of having a big influence locally (Geelong region).
The best I can think, of for now, is to hold these Blackfella corporations liable for the development projects they are deliberately banging up here, and to challenge their authenticity as real local Blackfellas.
To one of these Blackfellas truthteller and reconciliation crowds I got an email from yesterday, I replied:
“As far as I am concerned the only truth telling you Blackfellas need is the
truth about where all the billions us Whitefella Gubs have paid your leaders
has gone.
“You have been ripped off by your own people, and should do something about it.
Maybe a spear through the thigh on some of them might fix them up?”
I’m glad the Editor mentioned the Aboriginal Corporation’s link to UNDRIP. State-bsaed agreements are attempting to replicate what the Voice was intended to do. And that is to act as a backdoor trojan horse, allowing the UN to seize vast swathes of Australian land and lock it in either core reserves with limited to no human use, buffer zones with highly regulated use, Aboriginal reservations, military bases and finally human settlement zones (aka: geo-fenced 20 minute “Kill Cities”). In the US that is called the Wildlands Project. You can about it in this blogspot here – https://agenda21truth.blogspot.com/2018/04/how-private-property-in-america-is.html
Sounds to me like a long term genocide and land grab by the Elite. Several generations after the Reset, after all the inconvenient indigenous peoples of Australia, the Americas, Africa and elsewhere have died out or been wiped out, along with any memory of anyone living remotely from the world’s coastal cities, the next wave of explorers and colonisers will rediscover these continents and their prime pieces of real estate and farming land and claim them on behalf of the Elite. And they’ll know just where to look. There’ll be no evidence that they were ever farmed, let alone owned by any indigenous peoples. The term indigenous won’t have any meaning by then.
This next wave of colonisation won’t have to deal with indigenous populations and the financial costs associated with having to pay them out. Instead, they’ll simply eradicate them during the reset. Even if other evidence such as rock art points to the fact that the land was once native land, there’ll be no survivors left alive to claim title. Over the time-scale that the Elites operate on, the entire world’s population (other than the juice) on all continents will have been blended into a coffee-colour with no evidence of there having once been diverse ethnic groups. A few well-targeted nukes will remove any evidence of civilisation on the resource rich continents that they plan to later claim for themselves.
It would not surprise me if the Elite don’t routinely perform their resets to consolidate their power and wealth.
Now that those lands have been returned to their ancestral custodians will those people have any future need of Centrelink services ?
a complete profile investigation should happen to all these farms given to the so called indigenous groups to see if all of them are actually pro marxist or communist
if it does turn out that they all are communist/marxist then the people of queensland can actually start up lawful action to have all those prosecuted – even if those aboriginal people are not communist the people of queensland can start lawful action as the money used to buy the land does not belong to those inside claiming to be government
In the US all this splurging is merely camoflage for money laundering by government. If you see something you don’t understand always look for the financial incentive.
Queensland economy bankrupt. Where does the money come from to buy the farms.
And here is the answer.
In the first eight months of operation, these cameras, which had been installed in secret locations across Queensland, netted more than $100 million in fines.
All this is approved by politicians who were elected to serve the interests of their electorates.
Anyone heard from Bob Katter lately. Is he any better than the rest?
Industry like Rover Mowers went to China.
Cant think of anything nice to say about Beattie, Rudd, Bligh and the rest.
Can anyone explain is Keith Pitt politician any relation to Tony Pitt who ran his own newspaper?
Let’s cut to the chase – we’re witnessing the systematic deconstruction of several centuries of rural development which supported Australian society at large.
What our country built through blood, sweat and tears is being bulldozed into the dirt, ostensibly for the benefit of the alleged “First Nations” people – to the enduring detriment of everyone including said allegorical relics.
The end result will be our nation’s erosion and eventual dissolution.
Treason, folks. Plain and simple.
The final race of indigines as we know them must have changed just a little. If true to old form, they would make campfires using the floor boards of the homestead with the last of the cattle on the barbie. When that had run out, the government would build a new homestead and buy a new herd.
Si, I’m not an Abo – I was born in England and I was English before I became an Aussie in 1983 (Certificate of Citizenship) – so how can I become an instant Abo and jump on the Gravy Train – add water?
who was the previus owner and for what reason they sold to the communist government?