Mooted changes to farmland leases labelled 'discriminatory' and 'unreasonable'
Some descriptions at the hearing included “not fit for purpose”, “discriminatory”, “threatening” and “totally unreasonable”. Many felt that plans to tighten regulation around fundamental farm activities such as fencing, maintaining roads and clearing shrub would make farming difficult, bureaucratic and financially marginal. Debbie Jamieson/Stuff Three generations of Mt Nicholas Station managers, Kate Cocks, Linda Butson and Jess Cocks, 11, at an environment select committee su...
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