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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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Queensland Parks & Wildlife Service | Feb 26th 2010
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Patrick Centurino indicates where the track would go
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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.
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Magnetic Island Film Society | Feb 25th 2010
Early March sees the return to the All Seasons Hotel (formerly Magnetic International) of the Magnetic Island Film Festival and it's looking like yet another fine offering. Following is the Festival's programme.
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Island Businesses | Feb 23rd 2010
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.
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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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Musos Club gets local this Saturday
It's the steamy eve of Valentines Day this Saturday night when Magnetic Island Musos Club returns with more Island musical talent, to the RSL Hall in Hayles Avenue in Arcadia [ read more ] |
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Steamy season Valentines' options
This Sunday is Valentines Day and while February is a quiet month on Magnetic, with many businesses and eateries in particular taking a hard-earned break, there are things you can do that mark and make the day with your favourite significant/other/lover [ read more ] |
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Readers comments
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steve a In reply to Juniper puts a toe in the water
This is an edited version of a letter I sent to Cr Trevor Roberts about this issue:
I am a regular visitor tot he island over the last 15 years, and now a rate payer as well.
It has always been a surprising thing to me and many of my friends who visit the island regularly that Radical Bay could offer freehold and leasehold land, when it is in the middle of a National Park and on an A Grade marine park beach front. In most locations in Australia this would be unthinkable. In Tasmania for example, the Tasmanian Government has an active program of buying up all these legacy leases in sensitive areas and grandfathering tenants out of them. In Victoria, there would be very few examples like Radical Bay with freehold land in the middle of a National Park, and none where any development would be permitted. These situations are always managed to remove development over time, not to approve it.
I appreciate that the developer has a right to purchase where the title system allows this. The developer however bears the risk of approvals, and in the case of Radical Bay, this would or should have been obvious as a very significant risk. The recent king tide event highlighted by Magnetic Times has emphasised the precarious nature of this as a development site. The consequences for TCC as the approving authority if there had been a cyclone on a king tide after the
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