Legislative Council: Friday, July 20, 2012

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CROWN LAND GRAZING LEASES

The Hon. A. BRESSINGTON (14:50): Is the minister aware of some of the hardships facing our farmers with the change to the Crown Land Management Act, where councils now are not renewing leases to crown land so that farmers can no longer graze their cattle on that land after many years of being able to do so, or not even being able to move their cattle across that land from one paddock to another?

The Hon. G.E. GAGO (Minister for Agriculture, Food and Fisheries, Minister for Forests, Minister for Regional Development, Minister for Tourism, Minister for the Status of Women) (14:51): I don't think that has any relationship at all to this.

The PRESIDENT: Not much, no.

The Hon. A. Bressington: It's farming and hardship.

The PRESIDENT: The Hon. Mr Darley, did you have a supplementary?