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North QLD Cattleman Ross Benstead gives his opinion:
Only God can help those naive enough to enter into one of the agreements (New Leasehold Land Agreements in QLD) that ties up ratbags like Keto (President of Australian Rainforest Conservation Group) and the socialist grab bag in the ALP (QLD Australian Labor Party).
Aboriginal girl with a “Cat Fish”. Photos courtesy of Ludo Kuipera from web site ozoutback
By entering into an ILUA (Indigenous Land Use Agreement) the property value immediately devalues and will remain so while ever the signatories believe Indigenous people have a right to enter private property.
Photo of Aboriginal Family fishing at waterhole
Ask the Territorians and a few Cape York landowners who have been through similar nonsense for decades.ILUA’s allow the Indigenous People to enter at will and do whatever they like.
Shooting cattle (not always to eat), littering and fouling waterholes, camping at watering points sometimes forcing stock to perish, shooting up tanks and troughs, leaving gates open, cutting fences for wire, denude waterholes of wildlife including fish, burning out entire holdings, ad infinitum.
Try to have the conditions of an ILUA legally enforced and you immediately become a racist and it soon becomes apparent the Pandora’s box is jammed open. I was on an early committee in FNQ to do with Qld land title and I can tell you none of the pastoral participants wished to enter into any agreement with anyone.
A pastoral lease is just that, not some back door instrument that prevents graziers from producing stock.
Aboriginal men and boys with a Goanna they have caught. Goanna is cooked in coals of an open fire and is a traditional native food.Go to web site http://www.ozoutback.com.au/ to see Ludo Kuipera’s great collection of Indigenous and outback photos.
The donkey and carrot principle looms large in the extended lease for locking up some of your productive country after the landholder finds he has to remove any introduced species, eg buffel grass, watering points or earthworks.Imagine having some of Keto’s ratbags running around your property demanding the reduction of stocking rates, preventing woody weed control and banning fires completely.
Peter Kenny, whom I know, has no problem jumping in with these Malthusians whose only intention is to eventually halt all production and return the land to an indigenous-controlled, Utopian wasteland, a socialist Keating legacy.
Wakey wakey southerners, leave your reverie for a few weeks and come for a look. AgForce lost the plot five years ago and have continued to sell us out ever since. Â Â
ILUA’s and ‘conservation agreements’ are the thin edge of the wedge.
Ross Benstead, Mareeba North Queensland Australia
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What do you think? Are you a land holder or an Aboriginal, party to a Indidenous Land Use Agreement that is in place? We’d love to hear what your experience has been and how it is working - good or bad? - Agmates
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Below is an email comment agmates has received on this story.
John Andison of Bowen NQ writes
Congratulations to Ross Benstead for daring to publish the other side of the ILUA story.
A couple of comments on the “Historic” Delbessie Agreement;
1) Does not the requirement for a lessee to have in place an ILUA in order to qualify for a 50 year lease contravene the Anti Discrimination Act.
2) What constitutes “good” land condition.
3) Peter Kenny and Craig Wallace have both confirmed that “industry (Agforce), technical and scientific experts” will form a committee to advise on standards for “good” land condition.
Having seen the utter devistation wildfires have caused to National Parks that were managed by various “technical and scientific experts” in southern states, can we have any confidence that those on the State Rural Leasehold Land Advisory Committee will be experienced and practical enough to impartially adjudicate on the “condition” of the land.