Friends of Stradbroke Island

In this edition: A New Era for Stradbroke Whale Shark Spotted Off Straddie Draft Planning Scheme Update Dunwich High Tide Roost Getting Good Use Island Fox Control Continues Coastal Raptor Nests Project Quandamooka Festival 2016  A New Era for Stradbroke After a drawn out process of consultation and speculation, the Government’s Bill to repeal the 2013 Newman Government amendments to the North Stradbroke Island Act was passed by the Queensland Parliament on 25 May. The repeal of the Newman Government’s amendments and the restoration of the 2019 end date for mining is good news. This will save over 700 hectares of mostly undisturbed, high dune habitat from destruction and limit the impacts of mining on wetlands and the underlying aquifer. It is of course distressing that there will be three and a half more years of environmental harm, but a non-mining future for Straddie is now within sight. The passage of the Bill through Parliament was enlivened by the