Beautiful bird living in the moment 🌳💦🐤 Have a good weekend 🙂
📷 Gabrielle Ahern
#birdlife #ramsar #egret #mangroveforest #moretonbay #saltywave
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traffic jam from Wamuran to Caboolture and Sunshine Coast to Caboolture round 9am today was dreadful - obviously everyone is driving to Caboolture to catch train or get work or attend school or go to hospital or go shopping - jobs, services and shops need to be more in the regions to stop this traffic jam - sadly everyone commutes from their regional centres to hubs to get infrastructure and services and shops - poor urban planning leads to congestion on roads which will only get worse as population increases up to #brisbane #olympics and beyond #trafficjam #caboolture #moretonbay #sunshinecoast #somerset
Plea to make parks 'safe again' in Sunshine Coast town grappling with homelessness

Locals say 50-cent fares and council crackdowns on rough sleepers in Brisbane and Moreton Bay suburbs have shifted the problem up the railway line.

ABC News
Pelican powering along
#saltywave #pelican #birdlife #moretonbay Video by Gabrielle Ahern #visualstoryteller

@RAHU

Queensland council blocked from evicting homeless people sleeping in tents at city park
Supreme Court finds City of Moreton Bay’s eviction of rough sleepers placed them at ‘serious risk of harm from being exposed to the elements’

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/15/homeless-tent-eviction-moreton-bay-city-council-blocked-queensland-supreme-court-ntwnfb

#evictions #homeless #housingcrisis #MoretonBay

Queensland council blocked from evicting homeless people sleeping in tents at city park

Supreme Court finds issuing move on orders to homeless placed them at ‘serious risk of harm from being exposed to the elements’

The Guardian

Dugong life near a big city

They "found heavy metals, pesticides, microplastics and herbicides in the tissue and circulating blood of Moreton Bay dugongs. Extreme weather can compound these urban risks.

"We know that with every flood event or cyclone there's direct damage to seagrass beds. Even if there is enough seagrass to eat, dugongs are still affected. They show increased levels of heavy metals, pathogens and microplastics after floods, and "there is a drop in body condition compared to that time in other years."

"...This population may be faring better than those further north. They're exposed to agricultural runoff, which could severely affect the dugongs".
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-08-12/dugongs-moreton-bay-species-marine-science-conservation/105449400
#MarineMammals #dugongs #seagrass #ocean #pesticides #herbicide #runoff #floods #MoretonBay #GBR #GoFetchMyData

Dugongs studied in Moreton Bay may help save the vulnerable species worldwide

The world's largest health study of dugongs in Moreton Bay provides critical clues for helping conserve the enigmatic marine mammal, especially in other locations where numbers are falling.

ABC News

The City of Moreton Bay claims homeless people “consented” to having their tents and belongings – including a woman’s daughter’s ashes – thrown in the bin. This is what passes for policy now?
We’re criminalising poverty, bulldozing dignity, and calling it governance. Fines over $8,000 for sleeping rough, yet zero accountability for systemic failure.
If this is the norm, we’re in deep moral decline.

#homelessness #australia #housingcrisis #humanrights #moretonbay #poverty #socialjustice #brisbane #auspol

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-09/moreton-bay-says-homeless-consented-to-tents-thrown-away/105503520

City of Moreton Bay claims homeless people consented to having camps thrown away

Moreton Bay Council says homeless people consented to leaving their tent sites and having their possessions thrown into a council rubbish truck.

ABC News

I filmed a sea eagle taking a few dives into the water, trying to catch a fish for dinner. Elegant birds to watch.
#seaeagle #birdlife #moretonbay #saltywave #birds #visualstoryteller

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Cafe 63 has 38 cafes in Brisbane, Moreton Bay, Ipswich, Redland Bay, Sunshine Coast, Gatton and Logan already so a small empire #cafe #cafe63 #brisbane #moretonbay they must be turning over about $26M per year with 38 shops