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Police have intercepted dozens of people on their way to an illegal protest in Brisbane’s CBD and handcuffed others not wearing masks in a crackdown.

Police have intercepted dozens of people on their way to an illegal protest in Brisbane’s CBD and handcuffed others not wearing masks in a crackdown.

When former state LNP cabinet minister Mark McArdle and Queensland senator Paul Scarr hand down their highly anticipated review into the LNPs loss at the 2020 election in April next year, they must cast aside any factional allegiances or loyalties and bell the cat on a political party that is deeply divided and has lost its way. If they dont, the LNP will lose the 2024 election. This post-mortem must be brutal, honest and go for the jugular. McArdle and Scarr owe it to the members and senior...

Premium Content Subscriber only CENTRAL Queensland cattle producers have been warned to keep an eye out for signs of dog activity and monitor the behaviour of livestock following recent sightings of packs of wild dogs along the coast. According to AgForce Cattle Board president Will Wilson, wild dogs were affecting the cattle industry right across Queensland in varying degrees through impacts such as mortality, as well as harassment and bites. Mr Wilson said a recent case in Rockhampton saw a p...

Kshama Ranawana Environmentalists, Conservationists and the political opposition are strenuously objecting to the decision by the government to hand over the management of “Other State Forests (OSF)” to Divisional/Districts Secretaries alleging the move would be disastrous for the forest cover and biodiversity in the country. It was in July this year that the Cabinet first mooted the idea of handing the management of these lands earlier referred to as “State Residual Forests” by abolis...

Agriculture through the state of florida and hits tremendously the last few years. so we have a lot of of eyes on different environmental areas below. make sure were clearing the ways and people in the community and make sure the water that would stand closerer to the east coast is being drained as much as possible. but we are monitoring all of that included in close 60 of our state forests. and working with our humane society to make sure all of our pets are being removed from shelters across t...

Droughts, winds. every october, every november, since time in memorial, there have been fires in california. theres a question about how you manage state forests. those are interesting questions to be talked about, not right now necessarily. youre talking about federal disaster release. talking about what we can do to deal and mitigate these fires in the moment instead of going after and blame victims at this point. >> the other part of this story is, it is an excellent to the 8,000 firefighters...

And though governor brown would not respond directly to president trumps tweets, he did weigh in on climate change. watch. >> this is part of a trend, a new normal that we have to deal with. we are dealing with it humanly, financially and governmentally. >> as for president trumps argument that california has to they and its for us to reduce the risk of wildfire, numerous fire experts by greasing the state forests are clearly overgrown. but other state officials also blame that on the federal go...

Billion below average in per people funding for education. >> weve got a map we can put up that shows some of the states where, for instance, those are the nine states that were represented. interesting that california not represented. weve got one more map that shows some of the proportions. look at the state of nevada. 81% of it is owned by federal. youve got half the state in wyoming, 61% in idaho. let me ask you this, ken. if the states control the land rather than federal government, how wo...

We have cleanup crews hired by bp, subcontracted out through companies that are cleaning up but the tar balls are pretty significant along here and this will take a lot to clean this up and it might even take some machinery. it looks like seaweed that came up but it is all tar balls here from very small dime size to large patties like this that you see here and residents here, of course, have been very devastated this morning up and down here. of course, tourism and reservations for condos off a...