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Environmental bypass to fast-track oil project

New legislation introduced by the Queensland government would give Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie power to bypass environmental and heritage laws on projects of strategic significance. (File/Jeremy Cook)
By Andrew Stafford

A plan to give a deputy premier the power to override a state government's environmental laws for "strategic" projects has […]

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