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Nelly to Arcadia track still not funded
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Editorial | Jun 10th 2010
General learning area renewal work at the MI State School, support for MI Limited Childcare and some guardrail upgrading along our narrow Island roads, were the only Magnetic-specific expenditures we noted in this week's State Budget. And, while this community shouldn't expect more than its fair share, there was still nothing that might suggest any progress towards the, long needed and much petitioned for, Nelly to Arcadia Walkway. It's a pity there's no coal on Magnetic, otherwise we might have our own inter-bay railway seeing the government was perfectly happy assist our massive greenhouse gas exporting coal industry with extra train tracks, upgraded locos and wagons to the tune of $864 million.
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Editorial | Dec 24th 2009
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Nothing is as it seems
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It's that time of year again and we couldn't help passing on this story and funny photo that's spreading around the world on email.
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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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Australia says sorry
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 [ read more ] |
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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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