In our final story from the NQCC 50th Anniversary Project, Kenn Parker from Cardwell tells the story of how he and NQCC coordinator Carol Booth mounted the first successful action under the Environment Protection Biodiversity and Conservation Act (EPBC) to prevent a Cardwell farmer from using electrocution as a means of protecting his lychees from spectacled flying foxes. 

Here are four more stories from the NQCC 50 anniversary Project from Jim Tait, Lyn Wallace and Alan Webb. 

Jim Tait followed Peter McAdam as NQCC Coordinator and took over the role in 1989 when the election of the Goss Government brought the Bjelke-Petersen era to a final close. In his first story Jim tells us how he became NQCC Coordinator and describes the change in the Environment scene in Queensland with the new government.

Here are three stories from the second half of the 1980s as the Bjelke-Petersen era was drawing to a close.

In the first, Rosemary Hill reports on the historical meeting held in 1986 at which Queensland conservation organisations agreed to push for World Heritage protection for the Wet Tropics.

Therefore, the next three stories from our NQCC 50 anniversary project focus on the campaign against Keith Williams' efforts to build a resort at Port Hinchinbrook.

Here is our next installment of stories from our NQCC 50 anniversary project.

This year NQCC celebrates its 50^th birthday. As an anniversary project, we have collected stories from people who have been involved in environmental activism in North Queensland in the past 50 years. These will be released, several stories at a time over the next six weeks.

What do Michelle Dyer (social scientist and stand-up comedian), Liz Downes (2020 Queensland Volunteer of the Year), Les Bandt (the man who invented the ute in 1933), and the Aquapella world music choir all have in common? 

Answer: they were all part of NQCC’s 50th anniversary celebration “Stories of the Wild North” held at the Drill Hall Studio on Friday the 23rd of August.