Despite vocal opposition from primary producers, the
Vegetation Management and Other Legislation Amendment Act
(Act) was passed on 3 May 2018.
The changes arose from election promises made by the Queensland
Government in 2015 and followed the Government's failed attempt
to tighten the State's vegetation management laws in the
minority-government days of 2016.
The Act extends the protection of high value regrowth to
freehold land, includes vegetation that has not been cleared for 15
years within Category C (high value regrowth) vegetation, removes
the ability to apply for a permit for developing high value and
irrigated high value agriculture projects and removes the code for
managing thickened vegetation so that a permit is now required.
