Full house at quiz night last Saturday

Driving to work through Lauderdale last Thursday, after navigating around debris deposited by the previous night’s hurricane force winds on to the Ralphs Bay foreshore, I was struck once again by the madness of the canal estate plan we continue to fight.

Concerned Tasmanians have until April 16th to write to the Department of Primary Industries and Water (DPIW), in relation to proposed Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in the Bruny Bioregion. But why the DPIW?

The deadline for comments on the proposed Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in the Bruny Bioregion is Wednesday 16th April.

You can send your comments and submissions to the Secretary, Department of Primary Industries and Water, GPO Box 44, Hobart, TAS 7001,

email: Fishing.Enquiries@dpiw.tas.gov.au

fax Recreational Fisheries Enquiries, Wild Fisheries Management Branch Fax: 03 6223 1539

“Save Ralphs Bay Inc is shocked to see that 69% of the Marine Protected Areas put forward in the Draft Recommendations Report of the Inquiry into the establishment of Marine Protected Areas in the Bruny Bioregion have been slashed ..

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A key environmental hotspot in Franklin for almost four years, the Ralphs Bay Conservation Area is in the hands of the Resource Planning and Development Commission AND, ultimately, the Federal Government. Whoever is elected to represent Franklin on Saturday will enter Parliament with the community’s expectation that he or she will be a strong voice in Canberra for Ralphs Bay

The community group formed in March 2004, Save Ralphs Bay Inc (SRB), congratulates the RPDC for its rigorous and comprehensive guidelines for the assessment of the Walker Corporation’s proposed canal estate development and calls on to the Walker Corporation to make a public commitment to the PoSS process and the Premier, Paul Lennon, to allow the RPDC to conduct a comprehensive, rigorous assessment of the proposed development without interference.

To further its inappropriate development agenda, the Lennon Government has directed the Resource Planning and Development Commission NOT to consider Ralphs Bay as part of its current Inquiry into Marine Protected Areas in the Bruny Bioregion.
On the 8th of August, Planning Minister Steve Kons directed the RPDC to remove the Ralphs Bay Conservation Area from its recommendations on the establishment of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in the Bruny Bioregion