Labor plan a threat to farmers’ livelihoods

APRIL 28, 2016:  AS if farmers don't have enough to deal with when it comes to tree clearing laws, we now have Federal Labor pollies from city seats announcing fancy plans to introduce more ‘green police’.Bill Shorten has announced a plan to overrule state tree clearing policies, and send in Federal 'green police to tell farmers what they can and can't do on their own land.So we would have jumped-up federal bureaucrats flashing badges, stopping landholders from doing the work needed to run a normal farming enterprise.Only city slickers like Bill Shorten would come up with such a restrictive and blatantly unfair policy.To add insult to injury Bill and his mates made special mention of Queensland when they announced their policy intention to take control of land clearing laws.They're pointing the finger directly at Queensland and declaring there’s been too much land clearing going on, so it appears Queensland farmers are going to be blamed for global warming.Labor call this plan ‘ambitious’; I call it ‘overbearing, unfair and unnecessary’.Farmers know what is best for their land; it’s the tool that produces their income.They certainly don’t need any Labor green-leaning pollies from southern cities telling them how to run their own show.