ANNIVERSARY PADDLE
29th APRIL 2012

This year the Save the Mary River Coordinating Group are planning to paddle up the weir at Kandanga to Blue Creek. This will be a short 3 km paddle with some interesting features along the way.

See link below for further details

Some video comments on QWI's budget process from recent government estimates committee hearings. Excerpt from the TravestonSwamp online forum. http://travestonswamp.info/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4634

Queensland's Labor Government, under Premier Anna Bligh, has been returned to power for another term.  In her election night speech, she acknowledged that the swing against Labor had given a strong message to the government, and gave an undertaking for renewal within cabinet and the process of government..  We can hope that this promised renewal, and the extraordinarily strong position that the Premier now has as Australia's first elected female head of state, means that she can show some real strength in correcting some of the situations she inherited from the former Beattie administration.  In particular, she gave an undertaking to 'the regions' for a better performance by government on regional issues. A good place to start would be in the electorates north of Brisbane where Labor lost every single seat in the entire region...

These three Internet documentaries are essential viewing if you want a video introduction to the history , the human impact and some of the downstream impacts of the proposed dam project.

"Mr Lee said Labor would need to do a lot more than back down on plans to build the controversial Traveston dam."