State Parliament: Reef Catchments and Environment Minister

state parliament: In recent months, AgForce and others had campaigned against the imposition of new reef protection regulations, which set sediment load limits in reef catchments and impose new standards on farmers, according to The Guardian. The proposed new laws, which have been introduced to state parliament, also include a provision to allow the environment minister to obtain data from agricultural groups. Guardian Australia revealed in June that the state's auditor general had raised concerns that agriculture industry groups had refused to share data from the best management practices program due to privacy concerns. In an email to AgForce members, seen by Guardian Australia, the group's chief executive officer, Mike Guerin, says they had made the immense and far-reaching decision to delete the data. This data, which is individually owned by each producer, was never intended for that purpose. The bill currently before parliament may require AgForce to provide data to the government despite AgForce's commitment to producers that we look after the data ... on behalf of graziers and grain growers, Guerin wrote. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.