15th Jan 2021 4:15 PM More than 50 Target stores are expected to be closed over the coming months, while dozens will be converted into Kmart outlets in a major retail shake-up. News of the shrinking Target estate broke last year after sales slumped by $67 million, but many of the changes are happening in 2021. Around 55 Target s will be converted around Australia into Kmart stores or KHubs, smaller neighbourhood stores that stock products across kids, home and clothing. More Kmarts are coming to Australia as Targets are closed and converted. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Flavio Brancaleone It comes after 16 Target outlets already went through transformations into Kmarts in 2020.
“The time seemed right to share some of what I’ve discovered about our non-human neighbours in a new book, Wild About Noosa.
“It’s not a field guide but rather a love poem for this very special part of the world.”
The former Noosa de-amalgamation campaigner who served in the regional Sunshine Coast Council before two terms in the reformed Noosa Council, Mr Wellington said one of his greatest pleasures is to wander the local landscape with a camera.
The secret to freezing nature unguarded in his lens frame is his ability of “quietly eavesdropping on our remarkable fauna”.
Noosa is part of an ambitious world first large-scale environmental oyster reef restoration program aimed at increasing marine biodiversity and providing hundreds of jobs. Public information sessions on Monday by The Nature Conservancy at The J in Noosa Junction gave insights into the contentious $2.4 million oyster reef rebuild. The project is part of the conservancy s 60 projects in Australia to rehabilitate its depleted bays and waterways.
Dredging the river mouth the way to bring back the fish The Nature Conservancy project manager Craig Bohm said if the goal is achieved, Australia would be the first nation in the world to have recovered a critically endangered marine ecosystem .