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Peter Garrett rejects Traveston Dam

By Mark Bahnisch on November 11, 2009

Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett has declined to give Anna Bligh’s Traveston Dam the tick of approval. Bligh inherited this project from Peter Beattie, and I, and a lot of others, always thought its conception in the first place had [...]

Posted in Politics, Queensland, Water | Tagged Anna Bligh, Environment, Mary Valley, Peter Beattie, Queensland politics, South East Queensland, Traveston Dam, Water, water futures, water supply | 49 Responses

The Borg's (B)rough ride to the top

By Mark Bahnisch on January 9, 2009

From today’s Crikey email: Queensland Liberal National Party leader Lawrence Springborg – often accused by his Labor opponents of being a policy free zone – was quick out of the blocks on Monday, making an announcement about trail bike tracks. [...]

Posted in Queensland, State/Territory Elections, Transport | Tagged amalgamation, Anna Bligh, Bligh government, Brisbane, Coalition, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal National Party, LNP, Mal Brough, Queensland election 2009, Queensland Liberals, Queensland Nationals, Queensland politics, South East Queensland, trail bikes, transport policy | 21 Responses

Stormy weather!

By Mark Bahnisch on November 20, 2008

I’m no climatologist, but it’s been a very long time since I’ve seen storms with as much force as we’ve now experienced in Brisbane and South East Queensland three times in four days, most recently about an hour ago, and [...]

Posted in Brisbane, Climate change, Disasters, Government, Life, Photography, Sociology | Tagged 1974 floods, Anna Bligh, bom, Bremer River, Brisbane, bus station, Campbell Newman, climatology, creative commons, creative industries, dangerous winds, extreme weather, flickr, hail, images, infrastructure, inner city bypass, Ipswich, King George Square, meteorology, natural disaster, New Farm, Paddington, Photography, photos, public transport, QUT, radar, Sociology, South East Queensland, storms, subtropical climate, The Gap, TransApex, TransLink, Transport, tunnels, weather | 26 Responses

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