Committee Details

About the Regional Planning Interests (Condamine Alluvium) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2026

On Wednesday 25 March 2026 the Honourable Jarrod Bleijie MP Deputy Premier, Minister for State Development, Infrastructure and Planning and Minister for Industrial Relations introduced the Regional Planning Interests (Condamine Alluvium) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2026 into the Queensland Parliament.  The Bill was referred to the Primary Industries and Resources Committee for detailed consideration.   

View: Explanatory speech 
View: Bill 
View: Explanatory Notes 
View: Statement of compatibility 

The purpose of the Bill is to amend the planning, environmental and resources legislative frameworks to ensure that new coal seam gas activities in the Condamine Alluvium are subject to strong protections, including prohibiting long‑term detrimental impacts on the Condamine Alluvium groundwater resource.

The Bill also seeks to:

• streamline coal seam gas approvals by removing the requirement for a regional interest development approval and relying on the environmental authority process; and
• clarify and expand compensation arrangements for landholders for coal seam gas‑induced subsidence impacts.

Further information

Further information including written briefings, correspondence, response to submissions, transcripts and answers to questions taken on notice are available under the Related Publications tab.

Call for submissions

The committee invites submissions on any aspect of the Bill, from all interested parties.  Guidelines for making a submission to a parliamentary committee are available here: Guide to making a submission. Please ensure your submission meets these requirements.

Click here to make an online submission to the Bill

If you are unable to provide a written submission, please contact the secretariat to discuss other options.

The closing date for written submissions is 4pm Monday, 13 April 2026. 

Submissions must include:

• the author’s full name
• if the submission is made on behalf of an organisation, the level of approval (e.g. a local branch, executive committee or national organisation), and
• at least two of the following:
• email address
• mailing address, and
• daytime telephone number.

Please ensure your submission includes the above or it may not be considered by the committee.

Please note: Your name and submission may be published on the committee’s inquiry webpage, which will mean it can be viewed on the internet. You can request for your name to be withheld from your published submission, or for both your name and your submission to be kept confidential (i.e. not published). Decisions about whether and how submissions are published are at the discretion of the committee.

Public Proceedings

The committee has scheduled a public briefing on the Bill by officers of the Department of State Development, Infrastructure and Planning on Wednesday, 22 April 2026.  See timeline below for further information.

A public hearing will be held in Brisbane on Wednesday, 22 April 2026.  Public hearings may also be held in regional locations. See below for further information.

Committee’s report

The committee is due to table its report on Friday 8 May 2026. The report will be published here.

Once the committee’s report has been tabled, the Government has three months to respond to the report’s recommendations (if any). At that time, the Government Response will be published here.

Timeline