MEMBER FOR MALLEE:‍ Dr Webster: ‍

Speaker, we learnt this week that Labor’s fiscal recklessness on radical energy policy will cost taxpayers $642 billion dollars, but in my electorate of Mallee it’s worse - Labor are acting like feudal lords.

Mallee farmers are being treated like peasants. Farmers thought they had private property rights.  However, Labor has pointed at Mallee from their capital city ivory tower, knocked over the safeguards and lo and behold the energy sector raiders have swooped in to carve up Mallee farms and stir bad blood in small local communities.

In Mallee alone, over 50 energy projects have been enticed by a proposed 350-kilometres of huge towers to transmit energy south from Warracknabeal through Bulgana then north through Charlton and Tragowel.  If those 50-plus projects get up, there’ll be many more transmission lines than that.  

Mineral sands companies are also carving up swathes of Mallee’s prime agricultural land. Farmers severely doubt mining companies claims that they can restore the land after they take their chunk of premium topsoil out.

Labor are traumatising farmers who are treated like serfs - all so Labor can rob regions to buy votes in the cities.

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