The State Government has released its new planning laws which they claim will save Koala populations in South East Queensland including spending $15 million to buy new or rehabilitate existing habitats, compulsory acquisition powers for koala habitats outside the urban footprint, land swaps and banning dogs in new developments.
All sounds good doesn't it, except when you consider that the average developed house lot is around a quarter of a million dollars these days, so the $15million will only buy 60 lots or about 20 acres worth of development potential land.
The minister, Climate Change and Sustainability Minister Kate Jones, seems to be a State version of Garrett in that they are only yes men to their respective governments and those who fund them, which in Queensland seems to be the developers.
Is Kate Jones so uneducated on environmental issues that she actually believes that this amount of money to buy back land for Habitat will save the Koala population? Or does she just follow the party line unerringly and mindlessly hoping the voters will believe the spin she speaks with the release.
With the likes of Garrett, Wong and now Kate Jones leading the Labor Federal and State governments charge on environmental issues we have nothing to fear about the future in my opinion, because there won't be much environment left to worry about.
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My belief has always been that in order to have a healthy environment people have to be healthy. This includes the mental state of humans.
People are being boxed in sardine tins on miniscule blocks of land - which I believe leads to unhealthy lifestyles which impacts on our flora and fauna.
Both humans and fauna are being pushed out further and further under the guise of progress. When will this all stop.Yes we need to house people but at what expense to the environment and climatic conditions? We certainly do not need any more sporting fields or entertainment centres either.
Australia is about to go over its limit of capacity for sustainable human habitation, in fact since the farms have died out in so many areas, we already have.
The habitat necessarry for Koalas to thrive is gone in most of the over developed SEQ and the bit and pieces that are left are too fragmanted and in some cases isolated from effective corridors to allow populations of Koala to even sustain numbers.
The Koala plans have always been band-aid measures and this is more in the vane of being seen to be doing something rather than actually getting some effective policy that will assist to ensure habitat remains for Australias iconic animal.
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