The draft Queensland Protected Area Strategy is available online. The closing date for public comment is Friday 24 February 2017.

Three key State planning instruments open for your comment until 10 February.

The Agriculture and Environment Committee recently handed down its report into the Vegetation Management (Reinstatement) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2016 (the VMROLA Bill). The Bill amends the vegetation management framework to reinstate many of the provisions which were in the Vegetation Management Act 1999 prior to the regressive changes made by the former Newman government in 2013.

​You can join the campaign to have the Sunshine Coast Council declare a climate emergency and take stronger and more urgent action, which in turn can deliver tangible outcomes for all of us residing or visiting here.

As the impacts of climate change start to be felt coastal communities around the globe will have to make difficult decisions about how to manage shorelines and at what cost homes and community facilities should be protected or whether other responses might be more appropriate.