BRISBANE, Queensland, Sept. 15 -- The Queensland Department of the Premier and Cabinet issued text of the following statement:
Minister for Natural Resources and Mines, Minister for Manufacturing and Minister for Regional and Rural Development
The Honourable Dale Last
* The Crisafulli Government has introduced legislation to deliver historic reforms to the archaic approvals process for mining leases and stamp out environmental lawfare.
* Reforms will remove assessment duplication across mining lease and environmental authority applications and stop automatic referral of objections to Land Court.
* TheCrisafulli Government is delivering certainty and streamlining approvals after the former Labor Government tried to bury the mining indus...