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Traveston Dam: looking behind the lens
It’s often said that a picture paints a thousand words. Photographs of faces of anguish after the initial announcement, beautiful natural scenes that were so close to being lost forever and finally faces of joy and relief after the simple word, ‘no’ echoed throughout the Mary Valley.
Arkin Mackay’s images made the issue personal. They spawned [...]
Dam opposition well and truly afloat
For a community that Government sources claim is starting to accept a dam, Mary Valley residents and others were showing no sign of it when they took too the river to visibly signpost the three mark in their fight too stop the proposed Traveston Crossing Dam.
Three years to the day since Peter Beattie’s shock announcement [...]
Brownwater Classic celebrates its twentieth
Since 1988 the Brownwater Classic at Moy Pocket has lured both locals and those involved in the environment movement to a patch of riverine forest near Pickering Bridge on the Mary River.
It’s been a celebration of the river, in particular the blackbean tree, for it is the seed pods of this tree that provide the [...]
Don’t Murray the Mary
The breathtaking stupidity of the ALP in persisting with a plan to dam the Mary River has to be stopped. Premier Anne Bligh and her mates have to be brought from their parallel universe back to reality. Damming the Mary is an expensive waste of money that won’t solve Brisbane’s drinking water problems.
We’ve been plastered [...]
Traveston Dam: the folly continues
Ian Mackay provides an update on the controversial Traveston Dam proposal…
Date with Mary
As Christmas approaches, the Traveston Dam fight continues. The award winning Save the Mary Group, along with its supporters, has been busy …
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