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ASH NEWS - NO GOOD NEWS - Easter 2025

4/5/2025

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ASH NEWS NEW YEAR 2025

25/1/2025

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Alliance to Save Hinchinbrook Inc. (ASH) Only legitimate successor to Friends of Hinchinbrook Inc. (FOH).

7/1/2025

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​When an incorporated body is wound up, its committee must decide which entity will inherit its “books” and its assets. To ensure continuity of dedication to Hinchinbrook Island National Park, FOH created a new body (ASH) rather than risk the dissipation of its assets and energy on other causes.
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In 1996, FOH challenged the Commonwealth Government Consent for the state- approved development known as “Port Hinchinbrook”, under the Commonwealth ADJR Act. The state government joined the action (supporting the Consent).
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​In 1997 FOH lost on Appeal in the Federal Court and was refused leave to go to the High Court.


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COUNCIL & SCAMMERS USE FALSE NAME “ONE MILE CREEK”

10/8/2024

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​COUNCIL & SCAMMERS USE FALSE NAME “ONE MILE CREEK” TO FUND DREDGING OF STONY CREEK TO CONVINCE NAIVE BUYERS THAT DREDGING WILL CREATE MYTHICAL “DEEP-WATER ACCESS” FOR DEFUNCT PRIVATE CANAL ESTATE “PORT HINCHINBROOK”
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  • $1.5m public funding obtained using false name​
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  • Public misled
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  • Promulgating wrong place-name (“One Mile Creek”) diverting attention from government and other studies, ALL of which emphasised the unviability and infeasibility of dredging Stony Creek
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  • Cannot be successfully dredged due to severe siltation and storm surge

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In the Public Interest - OPEN LETTER

29/7/2024

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In the Public Interest
OPEN LETTER
to all the owners of "Port Hinchinbrook" & the interested public
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ASH POSITION STATEMENT

17/6/2024

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MEDIA RELEASE Sunday 16 June 2024
​Position Statement
The Alliance to Save Hinchinbrook Inc. (ASH) advocates for the management of national parks under the Cardinal Principle as expressed in the original Nature Conservation Act (1992); that is, for preservation of natural processes and conservation of biodiversity. 
  

Inaugurated in 1997, ASH inherited the aims of Friends of Hinchinbrook Inc. (FOH).
Spokesperson Ms. Moorhouse said “ASH has always strongly opposed all proposals to impose Tourism leases on Queensland national parks.”
Please sign the Petition
(Eligibility - Queensland residents)
Save our National Parks from Commercialisation
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HINCHINBROOK ISLAND NATIONAL PARK - WHAT NOW?

29/12/2021

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Hinchinbrook Island National Park seems to have survived the threat of long-term leases, mass walking parties, infrastructure (pack-less day-walk Taj Majal “glamping”, roads for suitcase-trucking, accommodation supplies, helicopter pads etc).
Hinchinbrook Island National Park is now LEASE-FREE - something the Queensland government had told us, for more than 20 years, could not be done.
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Thank you - to all the defenders of Hinchinbrook Island, including Cardwell residents and businesses, permit holders, local and far-away conservationists and self-reliant wilderness walkers, past Hinchinbrook Campaign activists, members of ASH (including overseas); and particularly to the Island’s Banjin people and their determined and absolute opposition to commercial leasing of their traditional country. 
The irony is that the government terminated the old Cape Richards lease to make way (business-wise) for the proposed new Brett Godfrey lease over the 5-day Thorsborne Wilderness Trail.

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Port Hinchinbrook/Hinchinbrook Harbour and the CCRC

15/12/2021

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Nick Dametto MP, CCRC councilors, the Scotts, Marina News, real estate agents, assorted scammers, speculators and PH block-owners …
 
WHY are they tied to the false place name ONE MILE CREEK?
 
Their common interest is in getting the state and Commonwealth governments to pay for the dredging of a private waterway so they can all benefit– whether in votes or dollars.  They all want a few years during which more blocks and berths can be sold, on the basis of the lie of “deep water access” … just like Keith Williams! They want “normalising” Port Hinchinbrook to be a property boom– just listen to your own councilors at the last CCRC meeting. AND we’ll all get rich – the same cargo-cult mentality that sucked Cardwell into this maelstrom in the 1990s.   And after five years? -  and if no cyclone can be blamed for the naturally infilled waterways or otherwise used to rob the public purse? -  then –
it will start all over again.  And again. Driven by election cycles.

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ASH COMMITTEE REPORT 2020-2021

27/10/2021

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TODAY - 2021 - HINCHINBROOK ISLAND is LEASE-FREE
In October 2018, two days after the publication of Expressions of Interest (EOI) for a 60 year massed walking lease over the Thorsborne Trail, Margaret Thorsborne died. Hinchinbrook Island protectors arose from everywhere. They needed no organising. People flocked to Cardwell in grief and outrage. The government tried to pick us off one at a time. They failed.

​To satisfy the proposed new lessee, a black-shoe-brigader from the south, the state government terminated the existing Cape Richards Lease - after 2O years of protesting that termination was impossible. Then they realised how bad a mistake Kate Jones had made … hence the statement below made without fanfare - and now they have undertaken rehabilitation of the old lease.

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"SURPRISE - enough water for boaties who know how to read a tide book".

12/8/2020

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THREE GRAPHS and TABLE: DURATION OF NAVIGABLE WATER FOR TRAILERABLE VESSELS USING THE PUBLIC BOAT RAMP AT “PORT HINCHINBROOK” (OYSTER POINT NEAR CARDWELL) FOR EVERY LOW TIDE THROUGHOUT THE YEAR
​The graphs and table were prepared for the Alliance to Save Hinchinbrook (ASH) using predictive data obtained from the 2009 Queensland Tide Tables for Cardwell, referenced to the Port of Lucinda.   
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There are generally two tides per day. The difference in tide times and heights between Cardwell and Lucinda is not significant for the purpose. Each graph covers the first two weeks in the months of January, March and May 2009. The tidal range varies within each month (from springs to neaps) and through the year. The highest and lowest spring tides occur in January and February; the least variation occurs in May.

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