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September 23rd, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
FARMERS would get the power to shut the gate on gas and mining companies under a central campaign plank of Bob Katter’s Australian Party at next year’s Queensland election, which the Liberal National Party and Labor warned yesterday could end with a hung parliament.
Just a day after Mr Katter’s fledgling party was formally registered in Queensland, both major parties stepped up the rhetoric against it amid polling this month showing it could draw as much as 22 per cent of the vote.
LNP parliamentary leader Jeff Seeney said the new political entity could split the conservative vote, with the balance of power held by newly-elected candidates from the federal independent MP’s party.
“I think there is a risk with third parties that they will take disaffected people from both sides of the political spectrum and there is a lot more disaffection in the Labor side at the moment,” he told ABC Radio.
Bligh government minister Stirling Hinchliffe said Labor would see some “leakage” to Mr Katter’s party, but the LNP was in a more precarious position.
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“It (Mr Katter’s party) will certainly cannibalise and take away from disenchanted potential LNP voters,” Mr Hinchliffe said.
The comments came as Mr Katter confirmed the party was developing policy that would ensure farmers were able to stop resource companies from exploring and mining their land with legislation that would give them a 99-year protection order.
Under the proposal, a year-long freeze would also be put on all coal-seam gas projects despite the billions of dollars already invested by companies.
The proposals would be central to any negotiations with the major parties in the event of a hung parliament, and would likely draw legal challenges from the resources sector.
The spread of CSG and coal mining throughout Queensland has become a white-hot issue with farmers legally unable to block resources companies from taking over their land.
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