This report estimates the size and growth of Queensland’s environmental bureaucracy since the year 2000, and compares it against the size and growth of Queensland’s agricultural sector.

Key recommendations:

• The Queensland government should implement a moratorium on all new environmental regulations being imposed on the agricultural sector for the next five years.
• The state government must introduce a one-in-two-out approach to introducing new regulation, whereby two pieces of regulation are repealed for every new one introduced.
• The state and federal government should coordinate and remove all environmental regulatory duplications affecting primary producers in Queensland.

In addition to these economy-wide recommendations, the authors also suggest a number of specific reform agendas to cut red tape and enhance the prosperity and output of Queensland’s agricultural sector - listed in the Appendix.