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Severe Cyclone Uliu could hit Magnetic Island
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Island News | Mar 18th 2010
Category 3, Severe Tropical Cyclone Ului could be headed for Magnetic Island and Townsville after the first advice, which was issued for the system this morning by the Bureau of Meteorology, placed us well within the Cyclone WATCH area.
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Island News | Mar 18th 2010
The Townsville Local Disaster Management Group has been placed on standby after the cyclone watch area for Cyclone Ului was today extended north to Cardwell.
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Island News | Mar 16th 2010
An inter-bay challenge to find the greatest ‘Low Carbon Dieters’ on Magnetic Island and a Short-Film Competition are just two of the activities planned by MINCA (Magnetic Island Nature Care Association Inc.) to ensure that the Island does its bit to reduce carbon emissions and limit climate change. Both projects are being funded by the Queensland Department of Energy and Natural Resources (DERM).
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Queensland Parks & Wildlife Service | Mar 12th 2010
Restoring Magnetic Island's natural bushland from the incursions of invasive weeds is, to those who have tried, a very satisfying activity with clear results you can quickly see for your efforts. Magnetic Island's National Park Volunteer Group are back on the job for the year and, in the following report, Co-ordinator, Carolyn Dixon tells of their already impressive achievements at Florence Bay as well as other benefits of participating.
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Environment | Mar 12th 2010
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WOD last year
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World Oceans Day organiser, Barbara Gibbs, is inviting people interested in making this year's World Oceans Day an even bigger success than last year, to come to a meeting at the RnR Bar at the Picnic Bay Pub this Sunday (March 14) at 2pm.
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Obituaries | Mar 11th 2010
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Rex had a favourite spot at Cockle Bay
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In the last few weeks two much loved Magnetic Islanders and former residents of Picnic Bay, Roy Spottiswood and Rex Millett have passed away.
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Maggie Island Musos Club | Mar 9th 2010
This Saturday night will be special at Magnetic Island Muso's Club when, Island band, Sweet Thing who produce 100% original music, will launch their latest CD, “Light on Water”.
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Island News | Mar 9th 2010
A waste transfer station for Magnetic Island is a step closer after Council’s Commercial Business Committee today recommended concept designs for the project be forwarded to full council for approval.
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Environment | Mar 4th 2010
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Beyond the toe at Radical
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In 2002, not long after Juniper Development Group purchased its land at Radical Bay, they commissioned Coastal Engineering Solutions (CES) to, in effect, determine what distance from the ocean would be safe to place what is now to be a, 24 residential block, gated community. This distance would be the buffer zone, in official terms, the ‘erosion prone area’. But, since examining documents Juniper have recently made public, Magnetic Times has found that the width of this vital safety area has been reduced by 35 metres and that the seaward line from which it is measured now appears to be significantly further out to sea than Juniper's own consultants recommended.
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Island Businesses | Mar 2nd 2010
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Angela Boggin karaokes for Haiti
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It took a while for the tally to come in but Base Backpackers have now reported that following their Haiti fundraising night held on Magnetic Island on January 21, they raised $30,571 across Australia and New Zealand.
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A new walking track proposed
Magnetic Island Ranger in Charge, Mr Patrick Centurino, is keen to hear feedback from the public on a new walking track the Queensland Parks & Wildlife Service is proposing which would enable walkers to travel from Nelly Bay or Arcadia to the Forts carpark without needing to cross the Horseshoe Bay hill road which has been identified as potentially dangerous to pedestrians [ read more ] |
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Tomorrow's big opportunity for Island tourism
The biggest get together of Visitor Information Centre operators from around the state arrive in Townsville today for the annual Queensland Information Centres Association (QICA) conference and they will soon be heading to Magnetic Island [ read more ] |
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Another night full of rain
Here at Magnetic Times' residence and office in the wilds of Bolger Bay on Magnetic Island's west coast it was another night full of rain [ read more ] |
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Serious accident in Nelly Bay
A magnetic Island man sustained life threatening injuries last night after the vehicle he was driving rolled on the corner of Barton Street and Mandalay Avenue in Nelly Bay [ read more ] |
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Ok what is it?
Tech heads on Magnetic are giving their domes a serious scratch trying to decide just what that radar thingy set up behind a mysterious, white, unmarked van at the Rocky Bay lookout is [ read more ] |
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Island operators claim TEL connection led to alleged ruse
Townsville Enterprise (TEL) has changed it’s policy by scruitinising requests for editorial help from tourist publications following an alleged ruse involving at least ten Magnetic Island operators who are seeking a total of between $5,000 and $10,000 in repayments from a digital publishing company who, they allege, failed to provide a promised publication while falsely claiming to be associated or in a joint initiative with TEL [ read more ] |
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Readers comments
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chasmac In reply to Juniper puts a toe in the water
Thanks Steve for an interesting contribution. Could I just correct a couple of factual errors so that the chronological order of events and the current state of affairs can provide a context for the situation that Radical Bay is in.
The various parcels of land (freehold and leasehold), including the old 36 acre scout lease in Florence Bay, pre-date the Magnetic Island National Park which was created in 1956. The scout lease (all except for about one hectare) and the surrounding Unallocated State Land (USL) which used to extend over to Radical and surround the freehold and leases there, was converted to National Park in the early 1990s..... all except for a three kilometre strip (which you call a road or track but which officially is not a road at all) which extends from the Forts car park to Radical Bay. Where that track comes into Radical Bay it used to extend between the freehold blocks right to the waterfront (an official 'road reserve' about 250m long). This part of the track (which was officially "road") was officially closed (in the 1990s I think) and the so-called 'pathway' around the eastern edge of the freehold blocks provided as a substitute. This action, which was perfectly legal, consolidated the five freehold blocks making the possibility of a 'gated' community more likely. All these actions took place at the behest of various owners before Junipers came into the picture in the early 2000s.
Since that time, four large leases
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