Law change 'will make farmers more vulnerable to gas company abuses'

Queensland bill restores community legal objection rights to small mining projects but also, campaigners say, 'incentivises resource companies to do the wrong thing'

Rural Queenslanders will be more vulnerable to "abuses" by gas companies negotiating land access under plans to change state law, campaigners say.

The Palaszczuk Labor government introduced to parliament a bill on Monday that would fulfil an election promise to restore community legal objection rights to smaller mining projects, enabling what the federal attorney general, George Brandis, last year derided as green "lawfare".