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Birkdale Precinct, Koalas, Letters to the Editor, SMBI

Island life, Kinross Road, and Olympic legacy – letters to the Editor

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Letters to the Editor discuss the challenges of living on an island, protection of koala habitat, and the unpopular Redlands Whitewater Centre’s possible Olympic legacy. There’s also a letter encouraging people to sign a petition asking Redland City Council to cease issuing parking infringement notices at the Redland Bay Marina parking precinct until the proposed

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Community, SMBI

SMBI Community Voice: Your Say in Shaping the Future of Island Transport

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A new chapter has begun for the SMBI Community Voice, the group formerly led by Robin Harris, now under fresh leadership and a renewed mission for the Southern Moreton Bay Islands (SMBI) as an apolitical, all-island group advocating for positive change on the big SMBI issues. Currently, the group is championing improvements in public transport

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Birkdale Precinct, Governance, Letters to the Editor, SMBI

Mayoral election, social media, whitewater poll, and SMBI in letters to Redlands2030

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Letters to Redlands2030 discuss the role of the Mayor, a call for better SMBI infrastructure, community rejection of the proposed whitewater white elephant, and social media disinformation. Put your thoughts in a short letter and email it to: theeditor@redlands2030.net Redlanders wanted change – we got more of the same! Last March, the people of the

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Community, SMBI

Aviation Noise is Bad for People’s Health and it’s heading for Redlands

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The Brisbane Flight Path Community Alliance (BFPCA) has collated a range of scientific evidence that chronic exposure to aviation noise is bad for people’s health and well-being. It is more than people just being annoyed by aircraft noise, it increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVD), diabetes and a range of other ailments, it also

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SMBI, Weinam Creek

Petition for better regulation of development in PDAs

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Proposed master plan for the Weinam Creek priority development area, in Redland Bay Russell Island Development Association (RIDA) is unashamedly pro-bridge. It has as its principal objective “To secure the development of road bridges, viaducts and short-haul vehicular ferries, to Russell Island for the benefit of the association’s members and others.  But Council’s use of

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Community, SMBI

Disease from road dust alleged on bay islands

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An alleged cluster of death and illness related to dust from unsealed roads on Macleay Island has been revealed by southern Moreton Bay island (SMBI) resident Ross Byrne. Mr Byrne detailed his research into problems caused by unsealed roads at the last Redland City Council meeting, suggesting legal implications for Council’s lack of action in

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Russell Island to Gold Coast cable ferry link

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An E-petition to the Queensland Parliament asks the Government to develop a cable ferry link between Russell Island and the Gold Coast. For far too long the State Government and Redland City Council have neglected the big question of accessing Russell Island from the Gold Coast. Population growth is now forcing very costly solutions on

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SMBI, Weinam Creek

Islands’ residents deserve better treatment

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Dear local representatives, ladies and gentlemen, I am contacting you in regards to a personal example that may help highlight the plight of residents who seek better infrastructure provisions, commensurate with a dynamically growing population on the southern Moreton Bay islands. Our lobbying over many years for better and diversified transport options other than just

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SMBI, Weinam Creek

Car park plan upsets Redland Bay residents

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Redland Bay residents are up in arms about Redland City Council’s plans to develop a large 600 vehicle car park on flood prone land next to a quiet suburban neighbourhood. Five wasted years At Redland City Council’s request in 2013 the Newman State Government declared a Priority Development Area (PDA) around Weinam Creek where ferries

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Letters to the Editor, SMBI, Toondah Harbour

The naturally wonderful Redlands Coast

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Residents write about high density living, Toondah Harbour, unemployment on the southern Moreton Bay islands (SMBI) and the Cicada Awards for young filmmakers. Naturally wonderful? Quite apart from the ecological decimation that acceptance of the Walker Group proposal for Toondah Harbour would bring to the Moreton Bay Marine Park, the proposal foreshadows a population density

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