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  • RAMSAR listed wetlands of North Stradbroke Island
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  • 18 Mile Swamp wetland, North Stradbroke Island not protected
  • Marine ecology
  • Vulnerable and endangered species
    • Wallum Sedge frog – Litoria olongburensis
    • Wallum froglet
    • Wallum Rocketfrog – Litoria freycineti
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• Destructive Sandmining
  • Sand mining destroys jobs
  • About dredge mining
  • Who is mining Straddie?
  • Major environmental incidents
  • Sandmining royalties
  • Other mines on Straddie
• Case against sand mining
  • Sand mining ‘locks up’ half of Straddie
  • Sand islands can’t be rehabilitated after sand mining
  • Destructive mining
  • Gov’t allowed mining on expired leases
  • Sibelco can’t be trusted
  • Exposing mining industry propaganda
  • Sandmining royalties minimal
  • Too much of Straddie will be destroyed
  • Company illegally took sand
  • Serious risks to waterbodies and ecosystems
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• Politics of mining
  • Environment Minister admits sandmining causes permanent and irreversible damage to North Stradbroke Island
  • Bligh’s government extended, not ended, open cut sand-mining on North Stradbroke Island
    • Government con, not sovereign risk
  • Campbell Newman wants sand mining to destroy Straddie
  • Bligh ministers mislead public on sandmining North Stradbroke Island
  • The Bligh Government Stradbroke Island National Park policy is the mining company’s plan
  • In 1976 Fraser Island sand mining was stopped in just six weeks by Campbell Newman’s own father.
  • Minister Rachel Nolan announces degraded and destroyed sandmined land to be made National Park
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