Farm tree clearing like a birthday party without a cake

After a marathon debate in Parliament,
 the Palaszczuk Government's
 vegetation management
amendments have been voted down.

This story should be accompanied by the sound of the near inaudible sobbing of Australia’s environmental groups.

Farms without trees are a little like a birthday party with a cake.

The world’s scientific community has conclusively illustrated that a farm’s reason, and its viability, is to be found in its trees.

Queensland’s farm lobby groups either don’t understand that or prefer to see themselves as the State’s last generation of farmers as their short-term views will make farming so difficulty that the next step is extinction.

Read the ABC Rural story - “Farm lobby claims victory as bid for tighter tree clearing controls felled in Queensland Parliament.”