A Queensland controversy has been building for eight years and is now in the hands of Tanya Plibersek
The incoming tide is covering the mudflats and sandbanks at Toondah Harbour and creeping up the mangrove branches.
Ospreys and sea eagles are fishing and a cloudless sky is framing Cassim Island – a bank of mangrove-covered sand – in a tranquil scene a watercolour painter would die for.
But a fight to stop a controversial $1.3bn plan to develop this area – part of an internationally-significant protected wetland – is about to reach a climax that has been building for eight years. The…
