From the air, Banksia Beach looks like a quiet coastal suburb on Bribie Island. From a migratory bird’s perspective, it is part of one of the most important pit-stops on the planet. Each year, shorebirds arrive in Moreton Bay after flying more than 11,000 kilometres non-stop from the Arctic. Many reach Queensland’s shores exhausted and…
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At 7:00 a.m. on a school day in Banksia Beach, two local siblings are already out the back, toes on the edge of the family pontoon. Their rods are rigged with small prawns, the canal is glassy, and a bream is nosing around the shadow of the boat hull. If they’re lucky, they’ll land two…
Just after sunrise at Banksia Beach, the water is calm enough that the hum of a cutter-suction dredger carries across Pacific Harbour. It’s not a sound this community is used to, but it marks the beginning of a major effort by City of Moreton Bay: the removal of about 80,000 cubic metres of silt that…