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...

FOSI Newsletter, Issue #73, December 2015 In this issue The Sand Mining Repeal Bill Council Progress on Point Lookout Reserve Fox action gets results. Sea turtles nesting on Straddie Summer guide Shorebirds in the news for all the wrong reasons! Updates The Sand Mining Repeal Bill The long awaited Bill to repeal the Newman amendments to the 2011 Bligh Government’s North Stradbroke sand mining legislation was introduced into parliament on 3 December. The Bill, if passed, will restore the 2019 end date for the “Enterprise” sand mine and impose a restricted mine path of 344 hectares. The Bill was immediately referred by the government to a parliamentary committee , for further consideration. It is to report to parliament by 31 March, 2016. The Bill will then be debated and voted on.  The closing date for submissions is 29 February. Background In April 2011 the Bligh government extended mining at the Enterprise mine to December, 2019 but restricted it to 198 hectare...