Results of the 2009 AGM
The meeting on Easter Saturday was well attended. New committee electedPresident – Sue Ellen Carew Vice-President – Jani Haenke Secretary […]
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Seen around the island
Hideway… A Nankeen Night Heron shelters in a Zulu fig tree on Samarinda Way. Bella Vista… Dead trees reveal a […]
Read moreFOSI President’s Report (mid 2009)
In the last year the global economic crisis together with new scientific predictions of the rapid escalation of global warming […]
Read moreLatest island news in brief
New owner for CRL Stradbroke silica sand miner Unimin Australia, subsidiary of a Belgian-based private mining company, is the new […]
Read moreCRL’s future mine plan: downsizing & job losses
Prior to its takeover by Unimin, Consolidated Rutile Ltd (CRL) announced major changes to its North Stradbroke Island sand mining […]
Read moreExpired mining leases should not be renewed
Mining leases on NSI were granted in a bygone era – Politically by a Bjelke-Petersen national party Government with very […]
Read moreCRL sand case update
In our last newsletter we reported the unanimous decision of the Redland City Council in August, 2008, to reject a […]
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