Eco online: environmental news, features and opinion from the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia
Environmental news from Eco online, Sunshine Coast and Queensland environmental news, with indepth sections including interviews, sustainable business, eco adventures, green living and wildlife
Earlier editions of the print version of Eco have highlighted the very significant social, economic and environmental values of Pumicestone Passage and identified various threats to those values. The Passage has values of international and national environmental significance under the Federal Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation … [Read more...]
Selected by Dr Deborah Jordan and taken from a newspaper cutting held in the Palmer Papers. This piece, Caloundra: reasons for being there was first published in the Brisbane Telegraph, 28 January 1928. Nettie Palmer was born and bred in Melbourne and alive to the differences between the Sunshine and the south. She, too, was city reared so … [Read more...]
A city with the population of Gladstone on the Sunshine Coast’s doorstep. Seven-storey buildings may soon welcome our southern visitors courtesy of the State Government’s growth plans. Caloundra South is just one of the many developments that the state government is promoting and fast-tracking to accommodate its agenda of growth. With a … [Read more...]
The Sunshine Coast was home to two gifted writers, Vance and Nettie Palmer, from 1925. In those days when few white people were exploring the bush, they were out most days, glorying in the earth and sea and sky. These were the years of their daughters growing, running free among the heath and sheoaks; the time of struggling as poets and … [Read more...]
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