Queensland Environment Minister Andrew Powell

THE new Queensland LNP government have a chance to show that they are not just another government beholden to environmentalist ideology and anti-agriculture campaigns such as the shooting of cattle on Cape York.

Shane Knuth, KAP Member for Hill, has called on the new Minister for the Environment Andrew Powell to immediately end all “shoot to kill” cattle operations for good in Cape York, following the recent landmark ruling by the Supreme Court of Queensland.

Shane Knuth MP for Hill

Mr Knuth is also suggesting that cattle producers who have had animals shot in recent years be compensated.

Cattle and livestock farming in general has been demonized by global environmentalist ideologues like Bill Gates and John Kerry, the US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, who claim without a shred of evidence that livestock methane emissions are a “major contributor” to global warming.

This same ideology infects environment departments across Australia at all levels of government and weak-kneed politicians fear being offside with this vocal minority whose constant bleating about “climate change” annoys most thinking Australians.

The Supreme Court’s decision, handed down on 29 November 2024, sided with Olive Vale Pastoral Pty Ltd against the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS), effectively blocking the department’s attempts to seize and destroy cattle that have strayed onto the vast Lakefield National Park, which borders the property.

Mr Knuth described the ruling as a “huge win” for property owners across Cape York, who have long been at odds with the department under the previous government. “This court decision is a victory for every landowner in Cape York who has had to fight a bureaucratic machine that has shown complete disregard for their livelihoods,” Mr Knuth said. 

“Olive Vale’s win shines a light on the injustice property owners have faced for years, and it casts serious doubt on the legitimacy of past ‘shoot to kill’ operations conducted by the department under the previous government.”

He also emphasized that this ruling could pave the way for compensation to landowners for cattle that have been “illegally seized and destroyed” since shoot to kill operations commenced on National Parks surrounding cattle properties in Cape York.

“The department claim close to 5000 cattle have been seized and destroyed over the last few years, but property owners argue that number is far too low,” Knuth said. “Based on various departmental figures, we’re looking at a conservative loss of $6 million or more in value,”

Knuth, who has repeatedly raised the issue in Parliament, said that while he succeeded in halting some of the previous government’s “shoot to kill” operations through parliament and media attention, the practice was revived once the spotlight faded.

“Under the former government, property owners were often given just weeks’ notice before cattle were shot, while waiting months for permits to enter national parks meant they had zero opportunity to retrieve their livestock,” he said. 

With the new government in place, Knuth believes the time has come for a fresh approach. “This is a chance for the new Minister to reset the wrongs of the past and bring justice to the landowners who have been targeted for far too long,” Mr Knuth said. 

“I am calling on the Minister to immediately cease all ‘shoot to kill’ cattle operations, work with property owners, and explore ways to better manage this valuable resource.” He said it was “absurd” that cattle were being destroyed while there was a global demand for beef. 

He also condemned the actions of the previous government, accusing them of waging a concerted campaign to force pastoralists out of Cape York. “The former government should be ashamed of their actions,” he said. 

“This court ruling has restored the law’s support for property owners, and it’s time for the department to stop persecuting them and instead work collaboratively with land owners.

“This has been entirely driven by property owners in Cape York. Without their persistence on ending this wrongful practice and persecution by the department I have no doubt it would have continued.” 

Mr Knuth says there should be a full review of the department’s actions under the previous government and a clear commitment from the new minister to end the controversial practice once and for all.

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21 thought on “Knuth wants LNP to show their colours on Cape cattle shooting scandal”
  1. Joe Bogan

    “When the people need a hero we will supply one” Albert Pike 33rd degree

    That’s why the Military stood behind Trump to show who is in control at his inauguration!

    Military (Alliance) is the only way! (Good Guys) and not a 33 Degree Satanic Freemason like the former Albert Pike!

  2. Editor, cairnsnews

    If you keep supporting NWO Politicians, you won’t be alive to eat them! 🐂

  3. zzzz3856: “It seems the WEF policies are destroying countries all over the world. Will we be next?”

    We’re NOT next in the Q. We have been at the FRONT of the Queue FOR DECADES!

    Ever since both the LNP and Labour, aka the UNIPARTY, started demolishing our MANUFACTURING AND INDUSTRIAL BASE and our ability to provide for ourselves.

    Look at us! Shut the tap in Singapore and we’re dead in a week. We’ve been sold out, sold off and now we’re being pimped out. And we never even noticed!

  4. Commenter fedup
    The boomers started showing some mettle when they got conscripted to Vietnam, all good until communist HQ cleverly installed the Whitlam government and it was back to system dependence
    “When the people need a hero we will supply one” Albert Pike 33rd degree

  5. Fed Up.. Well in case you haven’t noticed, most people seem to be asleep at the wheel here though many woke up after the covid scam.

    Yes, things can turn around if people wake up en masse and demand it. I think when things get bad enough they will.

    By the way, no one tells me how to think or what to think and I do not live in fear. I am very well aware of what is going on and have been for quite a few years now.

    Our government has been controlled for decades and a country that has foreign military bases on its soil is no longer free or sovereign.

  6. zzz3856

    ‘It seems the WEF policies are destroying countries all over the world.

    Will we be next?’

    DRAMA!

    Stop acting like a “black pilled” pansy living in fear!

    Of course we won’t if we all stand up collectively!

    We Aussies are tougher than that! Especially a lot of our younger generation that are all silently waiting for the older generation (anyone over 30) to GROW UP!

    I’ve personally come across some really awesome younger generation lately and I reckon Australia is heading in the right direction!

    It may not look like it at present, as we are headed for some tough months ahead, but that will be followed by ‘the golden age’

    People just need to realise that they need to stop giving their power away to politicians and the powers that be, enabling them to make the decisions for us

    How old are you fkn mob thinking like this?

    40’s 50’s 60’s 70’s 80’s 90’s 100!.. but you are still stuck in a 5 yo mentality when it comes to ages for stages waiting for mummy or daddy to tell you what to do or how to think!

    Time to ‘grow up’ and break out of your programming FFS!

  7. Oh and by the way Germany is on the verge of financial collapse, elections being called in New Year.

    Canada has a huge debt crisis – and Turdeau also in trouble and may have to resign.

    It seems the WEF policies are destroying countries all over the world.

    Will we be next?

  8. “… Net Zero is a new strategy to get rid of small farmers.. through the burden of fake carbon accounting. Carbon offsets and the new accounting trick of ‘net zero’ does not mean zero emissions. It means the rich polluters will continue to pollute and also grab the land and resources of those who have not polluted – indigenous people and small farmers – for carbon offsets” …. Navdanya report

    In other worlds the elite will continue to consume resources as always, including indulgences like polluting private jets, but will be able to purchase carbon credits to offset the emissions they create. Meanwhile, the average person will face increasing scrutiny of their energy usage, to the point that it may one day be rationed in the name of “climate compliance”.

    Taken from an article by Dr Joseph Mercola in Nexus magazine Oct-Nov 22.

  9. ……until we all get our shit together and learn to govern and support ourselves

    Having a Grubberment tell us what to do and how to think is just a NWO controlling system!

    FUCK THEM ALL OFF🖕

    We can manage ourselves, our children, our communities and our fkn livestock

  10. These clowns are all still ignoring the victims of child sex trafficking and adrenachrome harvesting and the NWO
    The Australian Corporation Grubberment just tried to kill us all off with a fkn bioweapon and these freaks are worried about fkn cows
    FUCK THEM ALL OFF and bring in Bosi FFS!
    A man that does not want to be a leader but wants to guide Australia to have the choice of picking who they want as their leader and their sheriffs

  11. All the members of the Global Warming DOOM CULT who are in gubberment need to be assessed for fitness in office. Before they destroy themselves, and us with them.

    The polar ice caps are still very much in place and have withstood ALL of Al Gore’s predictions. The polar bears are thriving and no Pacific islands have been swamped by rising tides.

    And our kids have seen PLENTY OF RAIN despite gurus like Flannery claiming they would never see rain and that our dams would turn bone dry.

    The CULT’S evidence never materialised! Yet people still believe in the GLOBAL WARMING CULT’S brainwashing! That SURELY has to rate as irrational belief heading for insanity.

  12. The LNP colours are the flag of convenience and when they get within range of a kill shot to Australia, it’s the Jolly Roger.

  13. The paranoiac bleatings of the human made climate change fanatics are a constant amusement to those who keep a level head in these times. The climate of the Earth has always changed and the main producer of methane on this spherical planet is not farting cattle but Cyanobacteria, commonly called blue green algae. Evil Gates and his (it’s) globalist consorts are obsessed with world population reduction (rightly or wrongly) and reducing our access to food supply or poisoning it outright are their main goals.

  14. Wow, the LNP have got a lot of work to do to rebuild any even basic respect or trust from the people which is at ‘ground zero’. They need to start now and work hard to prove that they are just not another Government of Outlaws.

    They also need to start the process by reading this article, many others and the article on the ‘aborted babies born alive’ who are being murdered in such an inhuman act of leaving them crying themselves to death without medical aid which a dog on the street would hopefully receive from ‘so called humans’ – to do this alone shows you are a pack of bl00dy cold bl00ded outlaws AND YOU NEED TO START REBUILDING YOURSELVES AS HUMANS – you need to represent all the people and the total environment – human health and environment are one – and for another first step you can scrap the con of the climate change fraud, the covid fraud and all the other ‘frauds’ that allegedly Gates, who, wef, elite et al can come up with and Exit the WHO, WEF, UN for starters.

    THEN LISTEN TO YOUR CONSCIENCE WHEN YOU HAVE MANAGED TO GROW ONE.

  15. Elon Musk would probably love to get all the cows in the world on his GPS virtual fencing system which we haven’t heard about yet but no doubt exists in minds at least since they are working on one for humans. With meat cattle only worth about $1000 each it’s a waste of time involving the government, those a*holes are only interested in self advancement and to them your $1000 is nothing.
    John Kerry is a bizarre creature, gets away with his statesman image while up to God knows what, sneaked down to McMurdo Station and the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station immediately after Hillary lost the election, first visit of a Secretary of State to Antarctica, which got Trump interested in military potential. Maybe he is slightly less interested now due to budgetary constraints.
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/09/trump-icebreakers-bases-arctic-antarctic-polar
    Some say Kerry went to inspect weather modification installations, others say the Plieadians live under the ice-cap, or it’s about oil and China as usual.

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