[Letter of the Issue]
SUNSHINE-STATE BLUES
Dear Wild,
A new state government for Queensland, but will it be good news for the environment? Unfortunately, LNP Premier David Crisafulli’s first step doesn’t look promising. Environment and Tourism Ministeries are now in the same department. That usually means one will benefit while the other suffers, and it’s unlikely to be tourism suffering!
As a clue to the government’s focus, the new Minister for Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation, Andrew Powell, has blown the cobwebs off the previously shelved plan for a cableway through Spring brook NP, a small Gold Coast Hinterland park containing ancient 3000-year-old Antarctic beech trees within its Gondwanan rainforests. The minister gushed, “We’ve got beaches, and yes, we’ve got theme parks here on the Gold Coast, but what people…
