The Future of State Land

The Future of State LandThe State Government has launched a review into the management of state land. About 126 million hectares or 73% of the land area of Queensland is currently administered by the Queensland Government. This state land is allocated for use under a number of different land tenure arrangements, including leases, reserves, roads, timber reserves and protected areas.The management structure of this land is addressed in a recently released discussion paper: Queensland state land – Strengthening our economic future (the Paper). The primary focuses of the Paper are:investment certainty for leaseholdersgreater flexibility for local governments, and;streamlining the regulatory environment.More information can be found here.The paper builds on recent reforms within the agriculture sector that provide better pathways to freehold land ownership and control rural rent costs.In conjunction with these reforms to the state land system, the Government Land Asset and Management (GLAM) group is reviewing land and property held by state government agencies with a view to ensuring that assets are identified, assessed and are managed to their full potential.Consultation on the discussion paper is open until 31 August.