A new parliamentary land use and resources sub-committee has assured it will protect the interests of Hunter wine and horse-breeding industries in land conflicts with mining companies
The committee will meet this week to finalize the location of these critical industry clusters in regional New South Wales.
Committee head and Minister for Regional Infrastructure Andrew Stoner said the new committee will make helping regional Australia more efficient.
Mr Stoner described the committee as "bringing the bureaucrats together".
"The role is to better coordinate the various agencies and governments ... we pull it all together and we coordinate it better as a government," Mr Stoner said, "now we move on to the important issues such as finalizing those critical industry clusters".
