click here to download PDF Autumn 2010 1...Sand miners in the courts 2...Protest against Unimin 3...QCM in Appeal Court 4...Miner defends record 5...Why national park? 6...Expired mining leases 7...National park for NSI 8...Donations for national park campaign 9...RCC Environment Awards 10...Koalas need counting 11...Blot on the landscape 12...Minjerribah Camping: yes 13...Notice of SIMO AGM (1.4Mb) click here to download PDF Summer 2009/2010 1…Spate of koala deaths 2…Urban koala count on NSI 2…History of roadkill 2…Wildlife encounters 3…Fox eradication3…Difficult bushfire season4…Camel Rock shock 5…Community garden 5…Weeding the Reserve 6…Profiting from public space 6…Minjerribah Camping 7…Vale Bill Orr, Jani Haenke 8…Co-respondents to appeal 8…Unimin to be prosecuted (1.6Mb) click here to download PDF Autumn 2009 1…Government commits to NSI environmental future 2…Unimin take over CRL 2…Unimin's first community consultative meeting 3…Wildlife encounters 3…SIMO now online 4…How to outfox foxes 5…Point Lookout to get new Community Hall 6…A koala spotter's checklist 6…Join SIMO 6…Bandannas and books for sale (512KB) click here to download PDF Summer 2008-09 1…More National Park on NSI still a way off 2…Quandamooka building natural resources skills 3…Water: Community Reference Panel meetings 4…CRL: Environmental Working Group update 4…Sand export appeal 4…Fisherman's Road closed 5…Wildlife encounters 6…SIMO wins environmental award 6…Feral animal eradication 7…RCC conversations on NSI 7…De-maining the road 8…SPOT a KOALA 8…DOB in a FOX 8…POPS in seafood? 8…SIMO going on line 8…Bandannas on sale (544KB) click here to download PDF Spring 2008 1…Council rejects CRL development application to export island sand for sale as construction material 2…Islanders plead for protection of Stradbroke/Minjerribah, not plunder 3…SIMO’s 30th AGM 3…President’s report 4…Guest speaker Kathy Stephens of Queensland Herbarium on how island plants adapt to living on sand 6…First scientific koala survey on Stradbroke 7…Wildlife encounters 8…Dog awareness 8…SPOT a KOALA 8…SIMO membership 8…Bandannas and books for sale (580KB) click here to download PDF Winter 2008 1…SIMO opposes sand extraction 3…70% of NSI is covered by mining leases 4…Wildlife encounters 5…Feral animals destroy island wildlife 5…Dugongs and turtles suffer boat strikes 6…First island koala mapping 6…Expert review of wetlands mapping 7…Sandmining: EPA-approved landform criteria fail to ensure replacement of what was there before 7…Holiday letting code of conduct 7…SIMO receives a vice-regal invitation 8…Norm’s Seat installed 8…National Park for Bribie 8…SPOT A KOALA? (464KB) click here to download PDF Autumn 2008 1…Proposal to sell sand as building material 2…Water: Community Reference Panel third meeting 2…Wildlife encounters 3…Draft Moreton Bay Marine Park Zoning Plan, and excerpts from SIMO’s submission 4…More National Park for Stradbroke Island 5…New mayor means promise of community equity 5…Free Beach Bus at Easter 6…Koalas count 7…Research shows 4WDs damage Stradbroke Beaches 8…Iconic Places Act 8…SIMO is 30 8…Two good books for island bookshelves: revised North Stradbroke Island and A Taste of Stradbroke. A flavour of the island, its cuisine and cooking community (512KB) click here to download PDF Summer 2007-08 1…Premier puts extra water extraction on hold 1…Thanks from Water Action Group convenor 1…islanders’ relief and joy 2…Water Resource Plan goes ahead: Community Reference Panel is appointed 3…Scientific talks on island freshwater ecology 6…Save Moreton Bay campaign 7…Roadworthy: slowing the road through Point Lookout 7…Wildlife encounters 8…Free Beach Bus starts this Christmas (688KB) click here to download PDF Spring 2007 1…President’s AGM report 2…AGM guest speaker John Bristow, National Parks Association Queensland 3…Focus on water 3…Water blessing at Dunwich 4…SIMO’s Logan Basin Water Resource Plan draft amendment submission 4…WAG: Need for real information about the aquifer 5…Wildlife encounters 5…Cylinder Beach still in limbo 5…Slower island? 5…Koalas: going, going… 6…Springtime on the island: orchids 6…The continuing saga of the disoriented Ibis dune, or what EPA did next (652KB) click here to download PDF Autumn 2007 1…Update on the Ibis ‘dune’ Evaluation Notice 2…Fires on Stradbroke 3…Wildlife encounters 3…Selling the sand CRL considers ‘waste’ 3…Vale Alison Drake 4…Moreton Bay Marine Park Zoning Plan review 4…Water Action Group latest 4…Water snippets 5…SIMO 20 years ago 5…Proposed development of a car park and bus turnaround at Cylinder Beach and foreshore, approved by RSC (352KB) click here to download PDF Summer 2006-07 1…Annual AGM 1…President’s report 2…Wildlife encounters 3…Update on Ibis ‘dune’ 3…Water Action Group 4…Give a wonderful Christmas present twice over 4…Jellyfish Book: the quintessential island reference (608KB) click here to download PDF Autumn 2006 1…Is it the beginning of the end for the island’s sand heart? 1…At last, the EPA stands behind its mining regulations 2…Museum’s successful re-opening 2…NSI collaborative fox control project 2…North Gorge scores a perfect 10 2…Wildlife encounters 3…Redland Planning Scheme approved/Mayor not 3…Point Lookout walking tracks 3…Traffic erodes the tradition of children’s street play 4…Island cookbook a financial boon for SIMO 4…Jellyfish Book new edition (160KB) click here to download PDF Spring 2005 1…SIMO Annual General Meeting Minutes 2…Wildlife encounters 3…‘A Taste of Stradbroke’ launch 4…About SIMO 4…North Stradbroke Island revised edition 4…Join SIMO (48KB) click here to download PDF Spring 2004 1…2004 Annual General Meeting, president’s report 2…Questions: What’s happening with the Flinders Beach Committee? What’s happening with Blue Lake and the possibly insufficient signage? Comment re the water. Where are we with sewerage? What’s happening with the walking track at the top of Timbin Rd? Will the Reserve 1781 be burnt? 3…Guest speaker Elinor Drake on her connections to NSI and changes she has seen 4…SIMO goes to politicians’ Forum about Moreton Bay 4…Wildlife Encounters 5…Treasurer's report 2004 6…Newsletter by email? (276KB) click here to download PDF August 1991 1…Increase in membership fee to $12 for a family 1…Blue Lake Creek Bush Walk to Lemon Tree Lagoon 1…WPSQ Director to represent SIMO in South East Queensland Regional Planning Advisory Group 2…Annual General Meeting, president Gary North’s report: highlights include ‘Unfortunately some politicians and public servants have the shortsighted view that sandmining is the most important attribute of Stradbroke Island. However, we have succeeded in gaining recognition of the island’s other attributes in the interim listing on the Register of the National Estate of four areas.’ ‘The Council’s Tourist Committee held a tourism planning workshop last September. The two major conclusions reached were that there should not be a bridge to the island and that development should be low key to preserve the unique nature of the island.’ (580KB) click here to download PDF May 1991 1…Annual General Meeting at Myora 1…Join us for the Walk and Lunch along Blue Lake Creek 1…Water Problems. A report from the Water Commission recommends North Stradbroke Island water as a possible source for areas other than Redlands 2…Australia’s Marine Wildlife at Risk. How plastic kills 2…Myora Fish Habitat Reserve 2…Myora – Expanded Silica Sand Project, Mining, Infrastructure and Loading Jetty. Following representation from environmentally oriented groups the Impact Assessment Study guidelines now include: a) consideration of alternatives, b) forecasts of demand for silica sand on world markets, c) outline of benefits of the project to the community 3…Proposed Civil Aviation Authority Radar Tower – Mt Hardgrave 3…Land Use Advisory Committee 3…Town Planning Research Grant from Dept of Environment & Heritage. SIMO has $2000 grant for preparation of an alternative Town Planning Scheme for Point Lookout 3…Industrial Land Scrapped at Point Lookout 3…Field Trip along Clayton’s Ridge 4…A Walk up Candlestick Road 4…Reprint of article on Lord Howe Island in National Parks Journal of April 1991: what it says could easily apply to NSI (632KB) click here to download PDF February 1991 1…Council Elections. Forty years of local island representation has come to an end, with only one councillor to be elected rather than two 1…Beach Management Strategy necessary 1…SIMO Walk to headwaters of Cooroon Cooroonpah Creek via Candlestick Road and the highest point of the island 2…Myora Fish Habitat Reserve, 22nd anniversary, declared after public outcry in 1968 against proposed disruption by near-shore mining of the coastal wetland. But the government plans to revoke part of the Reserve to allow ACI Industrial Minerals Ltd to build a pipeline to a holding tank near the shoreline, and a jetty and converyor belt into Rainbow Channel. (732KB) click here to download PDF August 1990 1…Visit Scenic Wildflower Reserve and Mt Bippo Penbean, time for a byo Barbie and get together away from the heavies of politics 1…Worth Supporting. K-Mart stores national plastic bag recycling program 1…Industrial Land – Point Lookout. SIMO lodged an objection with RSC to a rezoning for industrial sites on George Nothling Drive 2…The Annual General Meeting, president Gary North’s report. Highlights include: ‘incorporation has finally been achieved. This now gives us the ability to go to court and fight issues in our own name.’ ‘The national park proposal for North Stradbroke Island has finally been agreed to by all parties.’ ‘At Amity Point a large area of land was cleared for a new estate, destroying an important koala habitat.’ 4…Walk to Big and Little Canalpin Creeks 4…CAA Radar Proposal for Mt Hardgrave (580KB) click here to download PDF August 1989 1…Friends of Stradbroke Island General Meeting to adopt a constitution 2…Presidential Address by Gail Bell. Highlights include: ‘Helicopter joy rides from Home Beach have ceased to menace beachgoers’. ‘SIMO’s submissions are being considered seriously and many recommendations in them are adopted in final reports’. ‘Disappointments: Water will be piped from the island to the mainland’ 3…Point Lookout Headland – A Personal View, by R A Paterson 5…Selpam Highrise – Cylinder Beach, reported in Redland Times. Local Government Court of Queensland upheld Redland Shire Council approval for the $3.5 million, five-storey unit development 5…Town Planning – NSI 5…Bag limit on collection of shell fish, to 50 per person (736KB) click here to download PDF May 1989 1…Annual General Meeting 1…SIMO’s Incorporation. SIMO’s application to the Justice Dept has been rejected. The Under Secretary refused to give the reason. Mr Clauson chose to uphold the Under Secretary’s ruling 1…Fundraising stalls were held over Xmas, Australia Day and Easter 2…Point Lookout – Listed by the National Trust 3…Lease Application over Part of Scenic Reserve, Cylinder Beach 3…Selpram Proposed Highrise Cylinder Beach 4…Update on National Park Proposals for NSI 4…Bushwalk, Canalpin Creek off – Mt Bippo Penbean on 4…ACI on NSI, the first time a mining company has approached SIMO in a spirit of conciliation, to exchange information and listen to our knowledge (668KB) click here to download PDF July 1982 1…Several catastrophes have befallen Stradbroke. Aboriginal middens near the causeway south of Point Lookout were destroyed deliberately by sand miners. 1…A sandslide, the direct result of Consolidated Rutile’s mining operation at Blaksley’s Lagoon, wiped out a section of coastal swamp, plus mangrove and seagrass areas. Evidence of the impending slip was evident for two years but ignored by the company and government departments. 1…Cabinet decided to support in principle the early construction of a bridge 1…Mining has commenced in ML931 and threatens the outlet creek from Blue Lake, the many middens associated with it and the quality of Blue Lake National Park (156KB) click here to download PDF November 1981 1…Publication by SIMO of North Stradbroke Island by Ellie Durbidge and Jeannette Covacevich. ‘For anyone with the slightest interest in the island, the book is highly recommended 2…The bridge issue is again in the newspapers. SIMO Bridge Questionnaire (288KB) click here to download PDF Newsletter 2, November 1978 1…The committee has received a knockback from Mr Hinze re our application for membership of the Advisory Bodies examining the bridge issue 1…SIMO made a donation towards having an ambulance stationed on the island 1…We contacted Redland Shire Council about uncontrolled vehicle use and abuse of beaches and foredunes 1…We wrote a submission on the adequacy of environmental protection legislation (112KB) click here to download PDF Newsletter 1, August 1978 1…SIMO was formed in June 1978. It has two major aims. a: to press local and state government to implement recommendations of the Coastal Management Study (1975) (This report recommends against bridge construction) b: to ensure that government environmental impact studies are open to all interested individuals and organisations. (120KB) | 
