The decision to throw the laws out drew protests t the town hall.
“This threat is especially concerning on the Southside of Gympie, where housing developments are taking place in areas where koalas have been observed living,” Mr Arthur said.
“In mid 2020 the Gympie Regional Council was awarded the Queensland Keep Australia Beautiful Award for Environmental Sustainability because of the TLPIs and their Koala Conservation Management Plan.
“The present council should publicly relinquish that award, since its retention is inconsistent with cancellation of the TLPIs.
“In the absence of operating TLPIs then the dire conservation status of koalas demands that the Queensland Government extend the South East Queensland Koala Conservation Strategy to the Gympie Region as a matter of urgency, and ultimately to the entire Wide Bay Burnett.”
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A Gympie macadamia business has resurrected years-old plans as part of a push to put the region back on the nut map.
Gympie Farm Services has lodged an application for a new nut handling facility at East Deep Creek, a development it said would put the region back at the forefront of an industry it had helped make thrive.
“Although Gympie region was an early champion of expanding the macadamia industry in Australia it has been left behind by other regions,” the company said in its application to the council.
“We believe that the region has the potential to grow and this facility will encourage this.”
Rhiannon Carly McNamara made the shocking discovery, capturing images showing fish floating in the lake and sharing them on social media this week.
“Anyone know what’s going on with the Duck Ponds heaps of dead fish and other aquatic animals ells (sic) turtles etc,” Ms McNamara wrote.
Gympie Regional Council confirmed this morning it had received “multiple calls” about the issue.
A council spokesman said an official statement on the matter was being prepared at the time of publication.
More to come.
Cr Stewart part of crew that contained TCB fire Gympie councillor Dan Stewart was one of many rural firefighters who battled a blaze near Tin Can Bay yesterday.
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Subscriber only Up to eight rural fire crews took shifts to control the fire yesterday that was burning east, north east of Mt Marlin , a Queensland Fire and Rescue Service spokeswoman said. Backburning continued until 8pm, when the fire was largely contained except for some patches within the containment, she said. Cr Dan Stewart was fighting the fire until 11pm last night but still managed to attend a Gympie council workshop this morning, councillor Brice Devereaux said this morning on his official Facebook page.