Queensland primary producers requiring a handgun for their work can take heart from the dismissal of an appeal by the Queensland Police Service last Friday.

A Charleville grazier convicted of illegal tree clearing will only have to pay $10,000 in fines and costs instead of $112,000 after the Court of Appeal deemed that the penalty would have been "a crushing burden" on him and his family.

More outbreaks of African swine fever have been confirmed in Indonesia.