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Subscriber only The consortium of Bundaberg region farmers outraged by last year s rates rise for the agricultural sector have voiced concerns for the future amid the latest round of Queensland land valuations. After the significant land valuation increase last year and its impact on Bundaberg Regional Council rates the consortium (which includes members from AgForce, Bundaberg Fruit and Vegetable Growers, Canegrowers Isis and Bundaberg Canegrowers) viewed the 2021 valuation with trepidation . The Bundaberg local government area was not among those valued this year. The 25 areas which were valued include: Balonne, Banana, Barcaldine, Barcoo, Blackall-Tambo, Bulloo, Burdekin, Central Highlands, Charters Towers, Cook, Diamantina, Gladstone, Gympie, Isaac, Longreach, Maranoa, Murweh, Paroo, Quilpie, Somerset, Southern Downs, Tablelands, Toowoomba, Western Downs and Whitsunday.
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The tussle regarding agricultural rates in the Bundaberg region continues, with a question in parliament triggering the latest volley. For months there has been a stalemate between a farming consortium (AgForce, Bundaberg Fruit and Vegetable Growers, Canegrowers Isis and Bundaberg Canegrowers) and Bundaberg Regional Council (BRC) about a rates rise for agricultural land in the region. While the farmers are opposed to the rate rise, the council remained steadfast on their decisions regarding rated for the region. On February 24 Member for Burnett Stephen Bennett said asked the Deputy Premier and State Development, Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning Minister Steven Miles:
Ploughing into Greensillâs farm connection
The Aussie farm outfit of Lex Greensill says itâs separate from his failed finance operation. Documents show that has not always been the case.
The Greensill brothers, from left: Lex, Peter and Andrew.Â
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On a stinking hot Queensland morning, a farm worker is slouched inside a white ute outside the $4.1 million beachside holiday house of fallen financial wizard Lex Greensill.
The worker, wearing a blue-and-yellow shirt emblazoned with
Greensill Farming â the Bundaberg-based sweet-potato and sugar-cane enterprise of Lex and his brothers, is not in the mood to talk.
Still, he knows there is nobody inside the âGlass Houseâ. Thatâs the swish three-storey home overlooking a pristine ocean and boasting its own kitchen teppanyaki plate and internal glass lifts.