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If you ever wanted to add museum volunteer to your resume, now is your chance.
Gladstone Maritime History Society is calling for volunteers of all ages and abilities to help put the final touches on the new Maritime Museum at East Shores.
The doors are set to open this April and president Lindsay Wassell said all that was left to do was to dust off the artefacts and put them on display.
“We just need a few more hands and preferably, we’d love volunteers with skills in researching,” he said.
“With 1600 artefacts moving to the new museum, there’s quite a bit of unpacking to do.”
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Subscriber only Mesmeric coral reefs and seagrass beds throughout Central Queensland will live longer thanks to a partnership involving Gladstone Ports Corporation. GPC has teamed up with Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service to install $113,500 worth of reef protection infrastructure, south of Gladstone. QPWS rangers worked with Gidarjil Land and Sea Country Rangers and local contractors to install six of the environmentally friendly vessel moorings (EFMs). The large team also installed six reef protection markers at Pancake Creek, located approximately 20 kilometres north of the Town of 1770. The project was all part of GPC s Biodiversity Offset Strategy partnering with QPWS Reef Protection Program which aimed to reduce the impacts of anchor damage on sensitive coral reef and seagrass communities.
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Subscriber only A Gladstone woman who snapped a $200 plant while on a drunken day out, has appeared in court. Lara Jade Downey, 18, pleaded guilty in Gladstone Magistrates Court on Monday to one count of wilful damage. Police prosecutor Merrilyn Hoskins read the facts of Downey s case to the court and Magistrate Bevan Manthey. The informant in this case was a member of staff from Gladstone Ports Corporation. At 10.11pm on Saturday, October 24, the informant viewed Downey walking through the East Shores park on Flinders parade via CCTV footage. Downey was seen walking up to a small tree, worth $200, which had recently been planted.
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Lawyers for Gladstone Ports Corporation continue their efforts to have a class action case against the government-owned entity thrown out by way of 400-year-old torts.
The lawyers have filed an application with Australia’s High Court, asking for the decision of the Queensland Court of Appeal to be set aside, which upheld the decision by Supreme Court in Rockhampton’s Justice Graeme Crow on September 13, 2020.
Government-owned GPC is being sued by more than 150 people (fishers) in Queensland and New South Wales – from Bowen to Sydney including Keppel Bay, Stanage Bay and Gladstone region operators – who are seeking up to $150m in damages.