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Environment

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  “Regeneration Over Exploitation:
A Just Future for People and Planet”. 		 

 

Policy Objectives

  • Transition Queensland and Australia to a circular, regenerative economy.

  • Restore ecosystems, protect biodiversity and clean up pollution.

  • Empower communities, including First Nations peoples, to lead environmental stewardship.

 

1. Regenerative Agriculture and Land Use

  • Promote hemp and cannabis cultivation as carbon-negative crops:

    • support regenerative practices that restore soil and biodiversity, and

    • provide subsidies for carbon farming, agroforestry and hemp-based land rehabilitation.

  • End land-clearing for industrial agriculture and mining.

  • Expand regenerative farming programs through TAFE and landowner support schemes.

 

2. First Nations Environmental Leadership

  • Establish a Truth, Land and Water Commission to restore and protect sacred and ecologically significant sites.

  • Return management of National Parks and Conservation Zones to First Nations custodians.

  • Fund Indigenous Ranger Programs and Traditional Owner-led climate resilience projects.

 

3. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Restoration

  • Restore degraded lands, forests, rivers and coastlines through a Recovery Corps.

  • End the extinction crisis by implementing a State Biodiversity Protection Act that:

    • bans native forest logging, and

    • restores habitat connectivity and safeguards endangered species.

  • Strengthen environmental laws to require climate and ecological impact assessments for all development.

 

4. Circular Economy and Innovation

  • Ban single-use plastics, unnecessary packaging and waste exports.

  • Support hemp-based alternatives for plastic, textiles, construction, and bio-composites.

  • Fund innovation hubs in regional areas to develop green tech and sustainable manufacturing.

  • Introduce ‘Right to Repair’ legislation and incentives for re-use industries.

 

5. Urban Sustainability and Transport

  • Fund urban rewilding, rooftop gardens and cooling tree canopies in high-heat suburbs.

  • Retrofit homes and public buildings for energy efficiency with hemp-based insulation.

  • Support local councils to implement climate-resilient infrastructure and disaster planning.

 

6. Eco Jobs

  • Create 250,000 eco jobs in:

    • hemp industries,

    • environmental restoration, and

    • sustainable housing and hemp construction.

 

7. Accountability and Governance

  • Enshrine the right to a clean and healthy environment, in Queensland law.

  • Create an ‘Independent Environmental Commission’ with powers to block high-emission projects.

  • Require environmental impact statements for all new government budgets and infrastructure decisions.

 

Policy Outcomes

  • Plant over one billion native and climate-adapted trees.

  • Become a global leader in hemp-based sustainability and regenerative land use.

  • Protect endangered species and halt biodiversity loss.