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LETTER TO THE COMMUNITY

  • Writer: Magnetic Community News
    Magnetic Community News
  • Jun 25
  • 1 min read

For those two and a half thousand people who signed the petition for the reopening of the Radical Bay Road in 2019 (which was binned by our then member for Townsville Scott Stewart) and those who also want the reopening, it’s time we did something definitive.

Adam Baillie promised the road reopening in his election platform, but acting mayor Annmaree Greaney publicly says that when the money arrives she is going to spend it on other projects.


Adam Baillie said last Saturday that she wouldn’t be able to do this, but we have all seen the council’s skill in doing exactly what they want, despite what the people want. Look what happened to the Australian Festival of Chamber Music – thanks to our council’s mismanagement it’s off to Cairns.


Adam Baillie will have a stall at the Horseshoe Bay market this Sunday, if you want to be able to get to the three best beaches on our island by road – many of us can’t walk that distance and don’t have a boat – drop by and make sure he knows how much we want it.


There are sure to be plenty of greenies who will try to convince him otherwise under the pretence of “environmental protection”, so we need to make sure that he hears from the majority who have been cut off for all this time.


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Magnetic Island

6 comentarios

magiselectrical
magiselectrical
30 jun

Hey Charlie,

To responsibily enjoy OUR parks is a NATIONAL given. How many of OUR National Parks are designed to keep people out?

We haven't seen any plans yet, so a lot of what you assert is plain fearmongering which the people can seen through quite clearly.

Take a moment, stand back and have a look about Magnetic Island and all of the QUALITY State projects.

After Nelly Bay Harbour was developed, State Development appointed areas of the development to relevant caretakers. TCC is the only "caretaker" to let us down by not removing the sand from Gustav Creek annually. Heaven help us if they award caretakership of the road to the TCC.

Would Charly's Law see the Forts Road…

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chasmac1951
30 jun
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Not just TCC. If I remember correctly it was the state of Queensland's responsibility to maintain the separation of the government-owned Presto breakwater island from the Nelly Bay shoreline at the Constitution bridge. Yet year after year until the groyne was constructed, they had to be ordered by the Commonwealth to remove the sand and maintain the gap. So TCC is not the only 'caretaker' to let us down.

I would prefer that TCC never be made to take responsibility for maintenance and upkeep of a public road to Radical Bay. But who else is there? Let's hope the Crisafulli government has worked it out and made public its plans before they award contracts. Ratepayers are entitled to some public…

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chasmac1951
25 jun

I have two questions about this proposal.

  1. Currently, if you drive or walk down the track there is no way to access the beach at Radical Bay except by crossing over private freehold land (or beating a way through the bush at the edges). There is an unmarked proposed formal 5m wide "pathway", once expected to be a boardwalk, around the eastern side of the private property to the beachfront. Never been built, does not exist. So currently no public access unless this "pathway" is constructed. Does the state government intend to construct this access?

  2. The existing 3.5km 'track' from the Forts car park is located on Unallocated State Land (USL, used to be called Vacant Crown Land). It is…


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chasmac1951
30 jun
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I had the opportunity to put these questions directly to Adam Baillie at Horseshoe Bay yesterday. I am not sure he is really aware of the administrative issues that would arise as a direct result of the state intervening in the can of worms that has always surrounded the private track that might become a legal 'road' to Radical Bay. I showed him the map of the Radical Bay property and Road Reserve shown above and explained that there is currently NO PUBLIC ACCESS to the beachfront in that bay. Anyone, official or otherwise, arriving via the track at the back of the bay will encounter a fence and gate, open or closed, that marks the boundary of the private…

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