Editorial | Nov 24th 2009
Magnetic Times wish to advise all readers that due to technical difficulties we are presently very limited in our capacity to publish articles on the website. We are working to fix these problems and hope to have a full service back shortly.
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Editorial | Oct 12th 2009
While Magnetic Island residents and businesses strive to lower their carbon footprint in the hope of lessening the impacts of climate change and saving the Great Barrier Reef; a very powerful lobby group is spending up big at trying to change public opinion to do just the opposite. But, if you would like to help keep us all moving in a cleaner, greener direction, there is something you can do right now. And it's fun.
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Editorial | Aug 29th 2009
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Maggie's got a lappy
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Eight years ago Magnetic Times went online to become the very first news website in north Queensland. In that time we have produced literally thousands of stories for and about Magnetic Island. But, in all that time, what was intended as a temporary masthead sat above our news. Today we have moved on.
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Editorial | Jun 25th 2009
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The Solar Coat of Arms
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While Magnetic Island has begun to save greenhouse gases with the Solar Cities program there is a great opportunity right now to help the rest of Australia catch up in solar usage. A petition calling on the Australian parliament to introduce what is called a renewable “gross feed-in tariff” is seen by many experts as the way to put solar to a fairer competitive level with the coal powered polluters and, in doing so, create thousands or jobs.
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Editorial | Dec 5th 2008
Magnetic Times wishes to advise that part of yesterday's story regarding the date of screening of Robin Schaer's DVD about curlews, "This is our patch" was incorrect. The screening will be at the MI History and Craft Centre in Picnic Bay at 2pm and 3pm, tomorrow Saturday May 23 (not Sunday May 24).
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Editorial | Nov 6th 2008
The Macquarie Dictionary defines the word, "theme," as, "a subject of discourse, discussion, mediation, or composition; a topic..." but, in a free Magnetic Island workshop to be held at the Smart Lifestyle Centre in Horseshoe Bay, on November 15 and 16, we may learn otherwise.
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Editorial | Oct 15th 2008
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A close up of the crocodile
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Following our stories regarding the Cockle Bay crocodile and the information supplied by the EPA that the reptile was wired for satellite tracking, Magnetic Times questioned the department as to whether it could not have warned the public, via the local media, earlier, of the danger.
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Editorial | Mar 14th 2008
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Wetland wreckland
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Just next to Townsville City Council's gleaming wastewater treatment works at Picnic Bay and tucked away behind a screen of mangroves is a semi-permanent wetland where heron and other birds gather to fish and roost. At this time of year it serves as a fish nursery and is full of insect life. Looked at from the right angle it could be a tiny corner of Kakadu. But, as a reserve under the control of our council, this wetland, on World Heritage Magnetic Island, has become a dumping place for wrecked cars. It reveals, in our view, much that has characterised Townsville City Council's treatment of its so-called, jewel in the crown, Magnetic Island.
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Editorial | Feb 14th 2008
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Prime Minister Rudd addresses the parliament and outside audience
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As Magnetic Times is presently visiting Canberra there was an unprecedented opportunity to attend the national apology to the stolen generation on the lawns in front of Paliament House. With such an historic occasion before us I decided to document the moment for the benefit of our Magnetic Island and world wide readership. Following is a photo essay preceded by the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's apology.
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Tomorrow is a no-brainer
If there was one message this editor thought really cut through during the last six weeks of mind-warping banalities which, these days, pass for electioneering: it was a short interview with somebody who is not even a politician [ read more ] |
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Now it's a problem
For weeks now Magnetic Times has been attempting to get a comment from Peppers Blue on Blue PR people re the closure of the walking path which follows the water's edge from Lions Park to the ferry Terminal [ read more ] |
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Still swell to be here!
Do you remember when Sunferries was the brand new ferry company - successfully taking on the old established order at a time when Islanders yarned their way down the prettiest of front paths (the Picnic Bay Jetty) on their way to and from work? At the same time, while the Island's longest and hottest public argument over the man-made wasteland at Nelly Bay Harbour raged away, a small band of residents worked late into the night for weeks as they taught themselves how to produce a new Island newspaper [ read more ] |
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The price of a "lost opportunity"
Townsville City Council's Water Matters Alliance was named last week as a finalist for a top, national environmental gong, a Banksia Award, for its Horseshoe Bay wastewater plant on Magnetic Island [ read more ] |
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Australia Day and the unexpected
Bob Dylan once wrote, "Something is happening here but you don't know what it is - do you Mr Jones?" The line came to mind, last night at the Picnic Bay Hotel, following a much enjoyed Musos' Club special event, when a most unexpected conversation took place [ read more ] |
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Some unanswered rocky questions
While drivers may at times be getting a little tetchy waiting for the lollipop man to allow them their turn getting past the roadworks for the installation of the utilities corridor over Bright Point between Arcadia and Nelly Bay, residents have drawn our attention to other impacts of this work - namely on the World Heritage landscape [ read more ] |
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Future will condemn Howard says Suzuki
Pulling no punches, perhaps the world's best-known environmentalist, Canadian scientist and author, Dr David Suzuki told a 3,000 plus audience in Townsville that, in 25 years from now Australians would regard the Howard government as committing crimes against a generation for not heeding the warnings by scientists on greenhouse gases and saying no to the Kyoto Protocol [ read more ] |
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