The QLD LNP have broken their promise to the farmers of Darling Downs. Prior to the last election, member for Condamine Pat Weir promised that an LNP government would strengthen protections for the precious Condamine Alluvium - an underground water table relied upon by regional communities on the Darling Downs - and protect the farmland above it. 

This precious water resource underpins some of the state’s best farmland and supplies water to thousands of people on the Downs. Unfortunately, it is at significant risk from impending coal seam gas mining despite its immense value to the State.

Two weeks ago, the LNP introduced laws into Queensland Parliament which are a cruel betrayal of Downs farmers. Rather than strengthen protections for the Condamine Alluvium as promised, the laws are instead a golden handshake for Arrow Energy, the multinational gas company owned by Shell and PetroChina, threatening the Downs with gas drilling. 

The LNP have made it easier for gas companies to decimate Queensland’s best farmland on the Condamine Floodplain with century-long consequences.

Can you stand with the farmers of the Darling Downs and take action outside the Parliamentary Inquiry into the proposed laws?