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Letters July 2014

QLD Synod Webmaster — Sun, 06 Jul 2014 00:30:38 +0000

Give a real welcome We read with interest the six ways to be a welcoming church (Journey, June 2014, page 15). We have recently moved to Brisbane and were really looking forward to joining another church family after having left a great congregation in regional Queensland. Our experience has not been very positive, so there ...

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Proposed legislation poses risk to Queensland farmers

QLD Synod Webmaster — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 01:33:52 +0000

Strong concerns have been expressed about some of the provisions in the Mineral and Energy Resources (Common Provisions) Bill 2014 put to state parliament by Hon Andrew Cripps Minister for Natural Resources and Mines on 5 June. The Bill proposes to replace five existing pieces of legislation (which govern the energy and resources sector) with ...

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Coal seam gas: It’s a fracking worry

QLD Synod Webmaster — Tue, 06 May 2014 00:00:58 +0000

As coal seam gas mining spreads across rural Queensland, landholders are feeling the stress. Bruce Mullan reports. A third generation farmer from the Darling Downs looks across the land his grandfather cleared of brigalow scrub in 1908 to see his precious intensive grazing acres cut by roads, pipelines, open trenches and coal seam gas (GSG) ...

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May Journey now available

QLD Synod Webmaster — Thu, 01 May 2014 02:13:59 +0000

The May edition of Journey magazine is now available in PDF. You can download this edition and all previous editions back to 2005 on the download page. Your mission, if you choose to accept it “Mission” is a funny word. When I was growing up we would describe difficult tasks as “a bit of a ...

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Downs Presbytery calls for moratorium on CSG exploration

QLD Synod Webmaster — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 02:49:38 +0000

The Downs Presbytery of the Uniting Church in Australia has called for a moratorium of six months on further issue of any Coal Seam Gas (CSG) exploration permits and production licences. The Presbytery which covers the Darling Downs and South West Queensland region wants the moratorium so governments, communities, scientists, environmentalists, and the CSG industry ...

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