Media release - 16th October 2013
To the residents of the Cassowary Coast Region,  tourists and all those who value Queensland's biodiversity: join us in opposing the Newman Government's predation of National Parks and the rush to convert priceless wildlife reserves into lifeless cash.

Queensland has a miniscule percentage (4.8%) of land historically protected   as national park, less than any other state. Nevertheless, the State government intends to sacrifice even this last tiny bastion of nature protection, our state's last public good, on the altar of profit-taking.

Read the latest news from the southern region of the Cassowary Coast in the August edition of Phoenix published by ASH.

On July 24th the Cairns Post published an article claiming that Hinchinbrook Shire Council Mayor Rodger Bow was in favour of shifting the shire boundaries to include "Port Hinchinbrook"  in Hinchinbrook Shire.  

MEDIA RELEASE   19 July  2013
 Alliance to Save Hinchinbrook Inc.
OPEN LETTER IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST 

Port Hinchinbrook Services is in provisional liquidation. Williams
Corporation, the development company, is under voluntary administration.  Previous developers Tekin Australia (Resort Village Cardwell) were also wound up, in 1990. 

So what's the problem?
The short story is that "Port Hinchinbrook's" waterways cannot be kept 
navigable by dredging, because of an unchangeable characteristic of the
Hinchinbrook Channel coast: "severe siltation".

This problem is inherent in the site; it is not caused by cyclones.

Hello from Coquette Point,

The monsoon trough has dropped down and as I speak there are two active lows, one circulation over the Wet Tropic Coast and the other in the Gulf of Carpentaria. We now are in a waiting game to see what will happen.

While most frogs are in their element, with rain falling and are noisily singing love songs I found this white lipped looking very unhappy. She was sitting on a leaf and even when I poked a camera in her face she did not move. I noticed there is a small ulcer on her skin between the right eye and nostril. The skin generally looks unhealthy and the eyes remained half closed in spite of cool rain falling all around her. Her unusual behaviour is typical of chytrid fungus, a dreadful disease afflicting frogs. This is the first time I have seen it at Coquette Point and one wonders if it is linked to the stress these frogs would have endured during the long drought.

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Hello from Coquette Point,
While the bulk of Australia is experiencing heat-wave conditions and dreadful fires the coastal Wet Tropics has been under the influence of a weak ridge that is bringing cool sea-breezes with frequent light rain showers: we are having perfect tropical, summer weather.

The monsoon trough is sitting over the bottom end of PNG and resisting all attempts by cyclones, like the cat 5 Narelle now off Western Australia, to bring it down over the Wet Tropics.

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