AS her Sunshine Coast hinterland property goes under the hammer today, 81-year-old Joan George finds little comfort in new Queensland laws cracking down on mortgage fire sales. In light of the global financial crisis, the groundbreaking legislation was rushed through Queensland parliament this week to protect vulnerable land owners, such as Ms George and her son Matthew, from losing equity when their properties are repossessed. The Georges’ 24ha block will be auctioned today. Mr George said the property had received limited and unflattering advertising designed to attract only bargain-hunters, potentially leaving him with little to no equity. The property was valued in May at $760,000 but Mr George believes the auction will not yield an appropriate sale price as the property has not been adequately advertised.

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Australia’s implementation of Agenda 21 exceeds that of all other common law countries. The citizens of Queensland, Australia have had their property rights stripped so to advance the globalist political agenda. Read how the State of Queensland is now removed from the protections of the Australian Constitution. A privately owned state corporation now owns and controls all land-use activity in Queensland. This horrific experience is destroying the life and culture of those living there and provides a prototype example of what public/private partnership really means. This powerful document was produced by Sue and Lindsay Maynes and the EnviroWild Team of Australia.

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“We were being approached by both Main Roads because of the highway, and DNR because of the dam, which both affect our property,” Melody said. “Main Roads accepted our hardship claim in June last year and we settled with them. The whole thing was finalised, and then the water people from DNR got onto us with their valuation to take our land for the dam”. “I thought if the DNR offer is more than we’d accepted from Main Roads, I was just going to tear up the envelope,” Melody said. “But it was actually $180,000 less, so it was very lucky for us we had accepted the Main Roads offer.”

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Amendments to the Integrated Planning Act 1997 as introduced in State Parliament on the 14th March under COMMUNITY AMBULANCE COVER AND OTHER ACTS AMENDMENT BILL 2007

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A weekly column on the Traveston Crossing dam issue from Bob Baldwin of Baldwin Cartwright Lawyers and Chris Mount of John Logan Property Valuers.

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