The fact that the environmental costs of a product are not only not factored into its price but often are not recorded in any way shape or form perhaps represents the greatest market failing of all time. Know your impacts is a campaign aimed at discovering and sharing this information.

Among the issues we are currently following closely are the expansion of the Sunshine Coast Airport and the proposed ‘Noosa on Weyba’ development.

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.