FULL SHOW 16th SEPTEMBER 2026

0:00Good morning and welcome to Rural Queensland today. Ben Dobin with you this morning across Rural and Regional Queensland. It is the 16th of September and a very good morning to everybody listening to us through 4SB in Kinga Roy, 4ZR in Roma, 4VL in Charleville, 4H Ion M. Rural in Mount Isah, 4LG Longreach, 4GC Charters Towers, the Hot Country Network, a good morning to you. Well, a lot going on this morning on Rural Queensland today. Robbie Cadet will join us very shortly. We will absolutely focus on also the approval of another wind farm this time in Central Queensland. And you know what? They pick and choose what they want to do. They pick and choose what they want to do this federal government. We'll look at that. We'll also catch up with Cody Close, Roma Sal yesterday. We'll go through and have a look at some of the markets as well. But Robbie Cadet joining us first up this morning on Rural Queensland today.

1:02And there's a lot going on in the regions, but the minerals need to be opened up. Robbie is obviously right in the hot land of that, the member for Trigger. He joins us first up. This is Rural Queensland today on the Resonate Broadcast Network. And you're with Ben Dobin. It is the 16th of September. Rural Queensland today, Ben Dobin with you this morning. And as I said at the start of the show, Robbie Cadet joins us first up. It's the 16th of September. Wednesday morning across Rural Queensland today. Rob, good morning. Thanks so much for being with us. Everybody, Edelok, it's funny. We should talk about this. Tom Tate, the mayor of the Gold Coast. He's told an A, B, C, journalist, F off. He started questioning him and walked off. I mean, it's a bigger picture that there's so many road journalists at the moment and they are rogue who are trying to make a name for themselves. All they want to do is create a headline and in a lot of ways.

2:02And I've seen it happen with your political party. We've seen it happen with one nation. We've seen it happen now. Tom Tate's told a journalist to wear F off and it's gone viral. At what point is there a little bit more respect from the journalist to the politicians? Because it doesn't matter. You guys give a life of service. You could earn a lot more money in the private sector. You choose a life that is very different and very invasive. Yet there's no accountability from anybody asking the questions. It's almost horrible. Good point, mate. I'm always on the view. Be ready to answer anything. But I reckon with Tom, because Tom seems like a pretty good fellow. I've got to say, never met a man with him. He's a good thing to be at him. Really good thing, mate. Actually, but I think probably what's him, because as I understand now, I think something about Trump and I get this to where you get. They just ask an obvious question. It's cliche. They've probably just got it off. But whatever, Instagram, everything they follow.

3:03And haven't thought about it much at all. And they're not willing to follow through on the question. They just want to do a gotcha. And they don't even really know what they're talking about. So even if you did try and engage them in a proper response, they're not interested. And as cheap journalism, and that's where you do lose your temper, because you think right, you don't even really mean what you're saying. I don't even know if I'm picking. You know, I'm happy to talk to you for an hour about it if you want to now. But I don't think of that interested in that. So, yeah. And mate, look, in contrast to that, double eye had an interview at ABC yesterday. And I sort of said to him, we probably won't like each other up in a view. I'm not going to joke, and you can, but probably at least you're poor. It's important to get your side across too. And that's a decent journalist, you know. Yeah, yeah. We might not agree, but I'll give you the runs, who's, yeah, and they did. And we did disagree on the key things pretty in a big way. But you know, you've got to be able to weather that post site.

4:04I've got a weather-percated A. So I've got to try and listen to what you're trying to say. You know, I reckon that was a case that they just wanted. They didn't want to listen to anybody at the fair or respond. They just wanted to catch him out. I was it. Well, I can tell you one area that we all have been caught out. And I'm sure you've been blindsided by this was yesterday a bill that was introduced by the Resource Minister, Dale Lars, which would take all the objection rights to be confined to local councils and landholders who live within 125 kilometres of a mining lease. Now, this is, this is in a lot of ways. You know, farmers, they believe who have lost their right to oppose them on the environmental grounds under the new changes. Now, you know, there no longer allow to oppose on environmental grounds. And the State Government has to completely remove the reason for injectable grounds. Now, Dale Lars said yesterday, he wanted to undo the laws by the former Labor Government

5:09designed to save the mining towns of Glendon requiring a mining company to base its work there. Look, it is the reason that we've got these bills because of the objections. I don't think it is. It isn't more to do with the fact is that the coal royalties are so dear and that businesses don't want to because the government has applied the coal and the mining royalties. Isn't that the reason why we've got mines moving on and going into, going into sleeper mode? Well, I couldn't comment too much on the physics that bill just got introduced yesterday and I don't want to be too critical, you know, that they're probably trying to do something good with it. So I don't, but it could have liked that last few of the minerals one, it could have been in the birth and negative consequences. And I knew I got told like just last night about the Glendon element, but mate, there's nothing bigger than the coal industry in Queensland, about $76 billion in the industry.

6:11It's our biggest exporter. It's built most of this state. You know, I talked about the North-West mineral problems we're on from. We're up for cousin to the coal industry. Yeah. We're up for royalties and business. It is to go against you and industry we have in this state that pays the bills and is being shaped to debt. Labor did it all and it was all Labor's action. And I think it was done out of an ideological basis, like, you know, let's kill and annihilate this industry and we're win all the greening, you know, rabbit environmentalists in the city will vote for us and pandering for them. And a few of those people exist in the LMP, you can go in the city seat. And they've got, you know, they've inherited this budget and we just got the word on that period of writing, the double A plus period of writing, downgraded at this week, which, you know, you've got to say mostly Labor's doing. It's not all Labor's doing. They've had the reins for the vocalist 20 years, putting it to an exclusion. But the big thing is, the LMP's going to change it.

7:12They're going to turn the ship around. You can't keep blind and labour and saying, oh, it's terrible, it's terrible, but we don't want to, you know, we don't want to pull back on the spending for them. We won't be as popular. Well, you're just as bad as them if you continue it. And that's, you know, I really think it's a good opportunity for the government here where we are because you're right with it. You know, they've got to do some drastic measures. They've really got to throw some home acres now to try and deal with this cold, all these things. It all looks good on the surface, double over the top of the car industry. Yeah. The car industry, it looked good three years before it clad, and it was gone. It was gone for good. And we probably in ten years time, that's just talking about the patrol industry, ten to fifteen years time. They'll run out all their rail contracts, their port contracts, they'll be asking their boards for a billion dollars or half a billion dollars to develop the next pit. And they'll say, well, mate, the money's not in it. Yeah. Not at that rule, derailleur. And once that happens, you're really in a predicament, aren't you? Like, you couldn't do it hard to find words.

8:14That would do the point for an economy. And basically, to pay for the Olympic Games, you don't need to almost double the cold industry. And here's the fact that this is the fact that Tarnis skate about the cold industry in the last two years, since that those cold rules have come in. Global demand for iron ore and metallurgical coal has gone up 2%. Sorry, has gone up 4%. The global demand for it's gone up 4%. So we should be producing more and our production of metallurgical power in Queensland production has gone down 2%. And so it's all people can produce. So that tells you why would they be producing less when the whole global demand's gone up? It's quite the tellsy global demand's gone up. Future demand looks good, but we're producing through that way. Yeah. Because the money's not in it. And you'll dig what you got out of the ground, but you're not going to expand or... No. It's a huge problem, mate, and a lot of what they'll be doing in Parliament will be trying to offset that fact without actually changing the rules.

9:16It's an unjustly encouraged government to be brave, be honest with the point of them. People say, yes, it is a problem, but they're last at the moment. It's saying, oh no, it's not a problem that the cold industry's fine. It's not fine. And you don't spend an hour on the phone talking to a few of the industry leaders, even the people sort of peripherals of the industry. They'll tell you, Meg Greg Winson, MacGy, you'll tell you. I think they're very sick at the moment, and it needs that. And even up in rural Queensland, they can't pay for roads and hospitals if you don't have the cold industry healthy. So, I mean, it's a big problem for everyone, and it will be silently sort of sticking away as influence on a lot of what they're doing in Parliament for the next two years. Yeah, it certainly is. Hey, Rob, just stay with us. We're going to take a break, come back, still plenty more to get through this year's rural Queensland today. Welcome back, Robbie Catter joining us this morning through rural Queensland today on the Resonate Broadcast Network. Rob, the crocodile situation continues to get worse and worse. You're back in the headlines over the last couple of days.

10:21At what point do we acknowledge that there have plagued proportions now, and that there needs to be a serious management program around them? And I know this is a controversial topic. I get it. Yeah. It's very real, mate, in the North. It's more than... Yeah. Yeah, if you could deal with it, you know, if you could somehow deal with it passively without making it controversial, that'd be fantastic, because everyone loves making it controversial, but it's very real. And it doesn't matter whether you're talking about cow coq is living on remote stations or fishermen that get off the golf fishing or residents on the outskirts of the Canes, or in a far-off, most of them in those areas. It is just across the board that... Except there's sort of these learning tips of love, kicking and cuddling them and think it's fine to have them eating people. Yeah, mate, it's hard to bloody find anyone that just won't tell you, no, they're definitely in...

11:21They might not so plagued proportions, but they've definitely exploded the population. And to try and break through that philosophical bent, they've got the Department of Environment and the Queensland Government. And I get it to the LNP now, like they've got to still break that. But again, they could at least just acknowledge the problem and say, yes, it gives the problem that we need to do with having a problem. Well, they just won't do that. They just... And it's like the sharks that... I mean, oh, well... And you look at percentages. It's a little bit like science. And you look at the percentages, they're not that bad, but in real time, you're judging it over. If you look at the last couple of years, it's been horrific. And the shark population... Oh, they're... And mate, you talk to the fishermen. The best judge is talking to the fishermen. Best judge is talking to a bloke like yourself that used to swim in creeks as a kid now they're infested with crocs. Like, you know, at what point do people go hang on? We... We are... We're not the apex predator anymore.

12:21But we are absolutely handing over at the top of the food chain to something else. It's not right. It's not right. And it's, you know, someone in Canberra, you're a great in Canberra and Brisbane, they don't really care about the face you people look at. And they're going to go fix pumps and they've got fencing in the river and the waters and these drop it on best of all. They don't really care about their wealth or families that... The families in Mount Isle that their... You know, their... Their recorrections not going to noose or gold, those their recorrections down the Gregory River and having a swim. But it's okay to have all their kids at risk from drop it off now because they don't affect them and they get to feel a bit about saving the environment and saving the planet and all that sort of stuff. But they're very real consequences in it. It's sort of, you know, my take on a double, it drives a deep hatred and that's a strong word I know that it drives a deep hatred. It's a bureaucrat from the elitist politicians and the people in the city to pretend that's

13:23not a problem. And, you know, just think those people then they'll be right, stuff them. And that really is not good for soatheatiness in our country and our state. And, you know, and that's why it's the politicians job to be there growing up and say, guys, we've got to help these people. And that help just isn't coming down those days. Again, I urge the government to put their big voice pants on and just at least acknowledge the problem first, you know, you know, you might fix the straight up, just acknowledge you need the problem and then you need to get to it. That would be a good start. That would be a great start. And one that, you know, I think a lot of people would be like really enthralled in and actually know that they could get it under control. And so people could say, well, they're actually doing something instead of everybody being told, oh, wait up, you know, you can't do that. And blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Are you surprised? I mean, and I'm going to get to a good story. You posted about the wagyu, the wagyu, Philip bread at Torrance Creek, which has now been

14:27judged the best steak in the world. I'll get to that shortly. But just by the not deceptiveness, but the federal government is probably the biggest problem here. And the state government is trying to rectify a lot of things. Why is it that this match funding hasn't come through on like it took about a cloncarry report? Yeah, that's one thing. And then you say, well, okay, the federal government are aware of copper string as well. The state government are doing everything they can. They've guaranteed it. Chris will, he said it's going to happen. But we need the federal government to stop lagging. Like every single thing has to have funding from the federal government. And at this present moment, they drag their feet to do anything popular at all or anything positive at all for regional Queensland. Yeah, mate. I mean, that's 50 funding and rip and scrub, Queensland reconstruction. And money from a head to Queensland is saying, yeah, well, no longer do the bulk of the

15:30payment. So it's back to 50. And it was a massive, but in short, it was a massive short change of funding, of club funding, the club roads, of bridges and all that flood damage and get every year that a lot of councils live off, you know. And they cut that and you think, crikey, they obviously not worrying about offending people in regional seats. And then, yeah, and just, I mean, that cloncarry report thing, I mean, eventually got it in dad went out there and dad was on the room for, oh, well, the best part of life, about all year. And finally, they got the squeegee money out of them, Greg Campbell, wearing some kind of great job, put the fresh on them and as well. And, but yeah, just so slow to sort of help with this stuff, mate. I mean, you said it perfectly. It's like they've just given up and not really care, they've been good. Yeah, I mean, the EPBC actor now that's the woman that 50, 50 funding, it's hard to get

16:36your head around, just how bad it is and the impact it's going to have. And yeah, like it's, there's no sort of, well, let's look at it or there's no, trying to pull it back or anything, they just thought that's it. There it is. Okay, we don't get it. And you're like, well, I know, I go. That's crazy. Yeah. It's one thing, it's one thing for them to say that, but the problem is we've got to live with it. Great story in your post at this about Adam and Hayley Ray, who with their wagyu genetics have now beaten 470 entries in 30 countries across the world in the world's state challenge. Not about, not about effort for the Ray family that have been able to do something in throughout rural and regional Queensland, it's pretty spectacular. Best beef in the world. And it starts in North Queensland. I think it's a good reminder. Yeah, it's been there for a while and it's coming on way to breed because it was pretty like this. You know, what's the word?

17:39It was just strange, security, new breed that I had over my younger and now it's so prolific up through the North, there's just that many people into it. And oh yeah, I don't disagree. It produced a great strike with, have that, yeah, have that so close time, times creaking. And no, it just is fake, but it's not the, you know, it's not a big of the country through North Queensland, through there, but there's some people that just do such a great job on what the country they got. And, well, I mean, that's the genetics of the car, all the different things. I mean, it's not being that bad, but to do it, yeah, to do it in a remote area, or what's seen as remote. And Australia and beef induction in those areas is made, it makes you really proud to hear and that we can do stuff like that. I'm sure they're very proud. But certainly I'm proud to say that they're from our patch, and it's good things, so they real good things.

18:40Hey, it is just quite amazing what's going on. appreciate your time. You're doing unbelievable work and just really just dead set the voice of the salt majority and I say that with the most respect, Rob because you actually fight for what everybody else is wanting. Just quickly a mind getting and you know Glenn Kelly's obviously properly pissed off it out of you know but this mind another win farm that got approved yesterday and I just I just can't talk enough about this muller creek you know you know Glenn Kelly you know the muller creek win farm approval makes a complete mockery of community consultation so the federal government have given an EPBC approval of muller creek win farm and which is just a complete mockery now it's a slapping the face that we've talked about protecting and they say

19:41that look there's community but that's just absolute load of 100% garbage 150 you know used you know one to 1.5 kilometers of proposed turbines in it's just bullshit it just should not happen and people are really mad at it. I didn't that's the first of those I won't match that you're probably here mate I thought I thought we were done with all this but there you go. Yeah well it's another fight for us mate yeah yeah listen we appreciate we appreciate your time thanks so much for being with us this morning on rural Queensland today. I think mate Robbie Coutter this is rural Queensland today. Rural Queensland today you're with Ben Dobern on the Resonate Broadcast Network and across rural and regional Queensland wherever you are 16th to September this morning yesterday in Roma 8,314 head yarded it was up a little on the week prior and with

20:43the season starting to deteriorate the market struggled a little lots of detail around it though. Cody close TopX Roma joins me this morning after the Roma sale yesterday Cody good morning thanks so much for being with us I really appreciate you giving me some time this morning. Good morning Ben thanks for having me. I mean marker reports are a bit like everything the devils in the detail a lot of the time we understand that the conditions seasonally are deteriorating they're claiming the market 20 to 25 cents dropping in most categories but as I said just earlier you know the type of cattle what we were looking at wait breed all come into it what was that job like yesterday will it start with the storm we'll get to the prime a little later yeah definitely it certainly is starting to show it's showing a few signs of softening in a few categories but like you're saying there it's certainly relevant to the to the quality of the cattle it wasn't as good a

21:47yarding this week quality wise right the way through all weight categories and we've seen the last few weeks so that affected a little bit but in saying that yeah there's just like to see like seasonally wise people are looking forward and wondering when it's going to rain so there's a little bit of thought that goes around that and in price correction they're I suppose but the lead lead weeners still selling weld but they're mainly ween cattle at the moment to be honest big and they're more in the story condition so they're still selling well they made out to $5.70 yesterday for the lightweight little little little a little less years for the under 260 kilos and I did see some little angus tears make five 90 as well but they were very store store condition cattle that had the compensatory gain and that's where these buyers are looking for at the moment certainly anything that's going to put kilos on pretty quickly right the way through whether it's the weeners the background is all the feeders that's where the where the tops of the job are to

22:49be honest yeah and that's and to be honest with you that that boats well for the future and what we're trying to to see because there's opportunity now let's just go through yesterday there are steers under 200 kilos 350 to 570 I'm not even going to look at the 350 but 200 to 280 up to 584 but back into the middle fives and the 280 to 330 you know made the through it 560 feeder cattle obviously mid fours that was more the market but the heppers took a bit of a hit yesterday as well so with that real opportunity if you want to get in with the heifer job struggling a little at the back end yesterday yeah definitely been that heifer job it is certainly there was options there to be able to buy and a reasonable price compared to where it has been the last few weeks it's certainly been humming along quite well but yeah there was a slight correction there on the heifer market there yesterday but still viable and

23:50still profitable on the producers of things too like it's yeah still still decent dollars it's just not as high as it was but yeah there's more store heppers coming through through through the through the yards and there yeah they're getting sold after but it's the same old story when it's getting looked up to be dry the really little cattle that are the first ones to sort of take a minute of the hit because it is such a long run to get them to work if you chase them and have your weight you've got to have carry them so long yeah it is it's going to be and obviously an interesting time until it rains prime job how was it yesterday yeah prime job was still firm not many bullocks to quote on but they were made for 40 and then into the cows three dollars 90 six I saw 94 for some lead heavy cows with a bit of travel under them but that job yeah still holding on I believe and the secondary cows they

24:50were probably back ten cents but they made anywhere from 350 to 370 still there was still yeah still some good competition on that and then yeah the skinnier types of cows back to all people want to take them back on the crop or whatever they're trying to do there they were still in their three dollars 30 bracket so it's still holding on that cow job and they're still after them so it's which is good to see so bulls over 600 kilos selling to 462 it's the time where you see a lot of bulls because there's many a sale going on so where's the next sale you've got a sale this Friday with Top Exit you'll be marketing yeah Ben we've got the path on the ringer sale this Friday at the Roman sale yard a hundred angus bulls there starting at 10 30 in the morning so that's this Friday and then yeah the following Thursday Thursday next week we've got the wayco standing through the sale there at Mitchell at Grude a 101 bulls there starting at midday so yeah starting to give them a thick of it that's for sure can I ask you what is the season like through the

25:52Mariner or everywhere through there can you give us some sort of inside into what it's like it's certainly yeah well there hasn't been much rain through here right the Shorotra winter so there's certainly and we don't get grow much grass in winter to be honest it's more herbige so if there was a minute herbige off that little bit of rain this heat and wind and that's the last week or so and it's probably dried it off and it definitely dried it off and it's just the time of year where we just sit and wait for the rain to come I suppose you don't really expect too much too much of a change through now I will especially yeah August and September it's sort of hard to jay storm at the best of times so we just need yeah it'll be nice to get some early storms just to set people up and just keep people's confidence going forward but it's still pretty a catillating lick and in a condition on the catalyst still good but nothing's falling away to be honest but yeah it's just looking forward to how much how much grass you got in front of you I suppose

26:53is the conversation that it being having that being had at the moment yeah and really valid hey appreciate your time this morning thanks so much for being with this but it just awesome that you know we're seeing these kind of numbers still come through we just need the rain to absolutely slow this market down because otherwise this going to that that that number of close on eight thousand will be a regular regular occurrence in the next couple of weeks job holding on all right it certainly was a little cheaper but by no means but bad it was still very strong considering the seasonal conditions Cody appreciate your time this morning mate thanks so much for being this thanks Ben yeah good on you we're going to take a break come back this is rural Queensland today it's the 16th of September on rural Queensland today rural Queensland today I'll just touch on one thing Pauline Hanson and this is going to be the new way forward that anything that Pauline says that is in any way going to cause angst they'll be an apology or they'll be an attack

27:55yesterday Pauline Hanson and rightly so made a qualified apology up the her comments describing indigenous Australians as the most primitive race on earth now the one nation leader said she was sorry if she offended people but she would not back down from the substance of the remarks she made on a podcast from last year there's a resurfaced and this is what's going to happen anything that Pauline Hanson has ever said on the how we dragged up last September on the podcast the J.J podcast she criticized how much indigenous history is taught in schools her exact words they're the most primitive race on earth and we're supposed to be holding them up and saying what they've achieved they achieved nothing she said in comments that attracted condemnation from across the political divide Ellen Randley has made it very clear in the Curium R.L. that a lot of people aren't happy and now the media are in a talisman over it this is

29:00what Pauline Hanson who's been on the show many times I offended people by using that term primitive I apologise for that but I will not back away from what needs to be discussed we can't back away from what is happening to this country she said it's not my intention to hurt people and describe yourself as prone to putting a foot in a mouth but if we go back in time of settlement Australia they were primitive compared to where what the settlers that came out here from and she's not talking about those terms now it was about when it's not about now she said she said I regret saying that because I don't want to upset people that's not my intentions it wasn't my intentions to hurt people now there's a lot of people coming out the race discrimination commissioner said that Pauline dehumanized entire groups of people causes real harm public officials have a responsibility

30:03they'll lead with integrity and uphold the dignity of all Australians the standard must be clear racism has no place in Australia especially in the halls of power now I don't think that she is trying to be racist Miss Hanson offered a qualified apology to Anthony Albanese after he fired back comments she made about his late mother and her time living in public housing she choked the Karl Stefanovic podcast earlier this year housing commissioner's houses should not be there for people to live in them for 30 to 40 years the PM said his mother lived in the same one she was born in for 65 years she said that was not on for people like Mary Ann Albanese who died in 2002 to live in public housing for decades now she said she didn't think the comments were derogatory whatsoever I was referring to housing commissions and the time labor front benches when I often said the apology was a pathetic but you got to be honest with you she wasn't attacking

31:06she's talking about the systems and the laws look Pauline Hanson is going to offend people and the media now the certain areas of the media are going to report on anything that is even remotely controversial every single time can we just say that there has to be a correlation now that she's gaining so much popularity the people are now starting to look for anything she says and trying to highlight it to make her out racist or ill informed or lack a judgment but the core principles of what she's trying to get to and I don't believe her wording was correct I think it was wrong I would never use that wording myself and I don't think it but she just didn't explain herself right she's not trying to be racist she's not in any way trying to um probably disrespect a race or any Australian but she was the media need to have be a little bit more responsible as well they just

32:07can't run every single thing that she says and like it's controversial it's going to be an interesting 18 months anyway with Pauline time will tell how this all plays out this is rural Queensland today rural Queensland today on the resonate broadcast network well this is quite and well documented that ag force are making a really big push about giving people some of the ideas about the EPBC they've got a road show on um today they're in Mill Maren the 29th of September and George muckadilla on the 30th September long reach on the 6th of October clonk curry birds will quilt the augustella rolston and Clark Creek they're not mucking around that goes all the way through uh till the 5th of November and we'll get those dates up as well um this is trying to get the laws explained and it's interesting because the rights are being taken off uh people every single day even yesterday a new mining bill came through different to the EPBC but Shane McCarty joins us the president of ag force he's there he's trying to give people some idea of

33:10these reforms and where their rights are Shane good morning thanks so much for being with us good morning Ben morning look good gee whiz there's a bloody lot of stuff to have to do and this is and well done to ag force for having you know these this EPBC road show events but seriously well you shouldn't have to be going through this this is this to me and the new laws being explained it is just more time spent not looking off your own businesses while you're having to try and navigate through just stupid stupid reform from Murray what and a Labor government yeah Ben it's um it's very concerning about the the links that the producers and the now going to have to just prove to they're not they're not doing the right the wrong thing sorry for um just to be able to do every day um uh you know farming activities like uh fence lines and uh changing water boiling points and things like that and just the general management of their um their own links

34:16so you've been talking at a federal level you've spoken to many people are we and should we be concerned yeah Ben um look that's why we're taking the this uh road show on on the road so speak to um to give producers an idea of actually what they have to do under these new um this new legislation and give them the ability to actually uh ask the the guys from the EPA uh direct and you know just the ability to ask them specific questions specific to their operation and they're laying that they're looking after um so that they can um you know show the the what actually works and what doesn't work and so they're able to take that back to government in Canberra and say look you know some of these the stuff that we're trying to push through here is just not feasible for agriculture yeah I don't necessarily know if they want to hear that that's my big concern um so you're going

35:21through what's the general sentiment at the moment I know this road shows have only started what's the general sentiment from within look we had one first one in Jerome the other guy and uh 90 producers turned up um and they'll do to ask the question after the after everything was explained to them and the labels are questions of the API gods um and you know um what's i 10 out of the 90 were actually you know would be somewhat confident in doing yourself a sentiment um so that's not good at all that's bloody wiring Shane I mean so who's going to do it for them if we can't do it them if they can't do it themselves well this is what they they're very very exciting is just do a self-assessment or just do a referral but the problem with that is you know you go and you got the lag time can you imagine how long that's going to take and how long people be waiting with red tape and how they have to go through that that's the ridiculous

36:22absolutely and then they have to you know employ consultants and agronomists and all sorts of things which is another cost that they just do not need and cannot afford okay so when we get to when we get to that and when we we get to that point where we're at uh what's the next step because it doesn't seem like they're listening at all um and so I'm just interested in what the next step is for ag force and what we can do to in a lot of ways have a rebuttal against the Labor government that is hell-been on trying to close down industry and ag and mining in rural and regional Queensland the next uh the next step is that the the state is have to be set with uh so they're going to negotiate with the state government and we have it from you know David Christopher himself that they will negotiate on behalf of Queensland agriculture um but you know they won't let anything through that um you know

37:26produces it is not in the betterment of what produces so what we can get done at that level is vitally important but how much that changes that we we're unsure at the moment yeah and that's the and that's the big thing you'd be worried about so these road shows they are happening um and it's a very very important part of what the DNA is on where you guys are uh and you're absolutely making sure that wherever you are you can absolutely go through it your field days are very very well supported um like Mill Maren today and we'll get all those dates up because it's it'll be a absolute mess if you didn't go to it the 29th of September in St George the 30th of September in Muckadilla then we go to Longreach on the 6th of October on Curry on the 9th Burgeville on the 10th Corp. on the 12th of October Augustella the 13th of October so that's a huge and then Rollston the 4th of November Clark Creek on the 5th of November and look there is a lot

38:33of people who are part of it it is a really important um and I suppose in a lot of way these kind of days people think oh well I'm not an Ag Force member but that doesn't matter if you're not an Ag Force member you can attend it's $25 which is you've opened this up to everybody it's not just you know we'd love you to be an Ag Force member but if you're not that you still can attend it that's a very big thing that we should mention oh absolutely then look guys and tell you everybody if you're talking to you know if you're talking to your friends if you're talking to your family get them to come along to these days and get them so that they can actually ask these guys direct and get an instance from these guys absolutely walleted in specific to their property themselves and you know explain to them what you know this doesn't work this does work these guys know they're property better than anybody else and they've been looking after it better than anybody else so I just encourage people make the effort to get along to these days and the

39:35more work we can get to these guys and say you know what works and what doesn't work the better will be off yeah and that's that's so that's so important um those dates we'll make sure that we have them up uh Shane McCarty you guys are doing a wonderful job it's not what you need to do it's it really isn't um and are you right what's your thoughts on yesterday with you know and look at leading the career male today about what they believe is the objection rights of fine farmers and regional communities won't be able to object to mining leases on environmental grounds undersweeping law changes can I can I ask you that like yeah yeah I mean it's devil in the detail I don't necessarily and look I've spoken a lot of LNP people yeah Sean Dylan a lot of those guys are very you know very very clear it's not to try and screw them but I'm just wondering what your thoughts are on that look the early we did get a briefing the other day from the government and it's within 125 kilometers of those properties you're still able to object but it's just trying to stop

40:41people from then and see New York Melbourne objecting to to stuff that they don't even live look we still have to work through the final details and and see what you know how that affects us but I can see what the government's trying to do it's just that we don't want any collateral damage in that as well we're going along with it yeah very interesting appreciate your time thanks so much of being this we'll get those dates up really important the people support it thank you Van thank you dollar good on you we're going to take a really short break come back wrap it all up this is rural Queensland today well that's it from us here this morning at rural Queensland today for the 16th of September Wednesday morning across regional Queensland we have had a lot going on Gary Hargraze will join you next for the next couple of hours but remember when the weed is right you've got to keep the head is rolling in the paddock have a wonderful day Queensland and we'll be back again tomorrow morning from 9 a.m now if you've missed any of our shows you can always go to

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