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  1. Hamilton speaks at Brisbane Institute

    David White 699 Brisbane February 16, 2007 BRISBANE — On February 13, 600 people attended a public ... meeting at the Brisbane Institute to hear Canberra-based Australia Institute executive director Clive ...

  2. Financial light dims for Brisbane’s road tunnel

    Environment David White Jim McIlroy The number of cars using Brisbane’s first road tunnel, which ... opened on March 18, has remained far below the target projected by the Brisbane City Council. After an ... are exhausted. The controversial Clem 7 tunnel is part of Liberal Brisbane Lord Mayor Campbell ...

  3. Action to save the Mary River

    proposed plan is to pipe water from the dam more than 100km to augment Brisbane's water supply. ... from Brisbane to Adelaide, then for 850 kilometres up the Brisbane River, over the Conondale Ranges and ... disruption had already occurred, and that far better means of supplying water for Brisbane must be explored. ...

  4. Traveston Dam decision looms

    David White Meanjin/Brisbane After two years of controversy, community hostility and political ... the species into extinction. Many water engineers say the dam would provide little water for Brisbane ... residents during periods of drought, and that Brisbane wouldn't run out of water for at least 20 years ...

  5. Mary River dam delayed

    David White Meanjin/Brisbane Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has announced that construction of the ... Brisbane appeared likely to run out of water within 18 months, has led to widespread community protest. ...

  6. Traveston Dam project blocked by federal government

    David White Meanjin/Brisbane A huge community campaign in opposition to the construction of a new ... dam on the Mary River, north of Brisbane, ended last week with a victory for people power. Federal ...

  7. Epic kayak journey takes petitions to Garrett

    Queensland's Mary River, Steve Posselt will kayak from Brisbane to the Sydney office of federal environment ... dragged his kayak from Brisbane to Adelaide in 2007 to highlight the parlous state of the Murray-Darling ... river system, left Brisbane on October 4 to paddle down the coast to Sydney. The Queensland lungfish is ...

  8. Communities fight to save Mary River

    paddle a kayak up the Brisbane River, pull it over the ranges and then paddle down the Mary River to its ... that this is not the way to provide a reliable water supply for Brisbane. @question = Where is the ... reaches of the Mary River, about 100km north west of Brisbane. The dam would cover 76 square kilometres. ...