DEEBING CREEK MASSACRE OF THE ENVIRONMENT MUST BE STOPPED

What is about to happen around the former Deebing Creek mission in the Ipswich City area is absolutely, totally unacceptable, by any moral or environmental gauge.

What has already occured there, as far as "preliminary clearing" of bushland goes, precisely in an area which has a historically indisputable very significant relevance to Aboriginals, is just as unacceptable. 

It's ridiculous that in the year 2022 we have a state government and a major provincial council like Ipswich City that collectively can't work it out that large scale destruction of bushland of this kind for any mass subdivision must cease - for good.

Not for one year, or two years, or three years. For good means forever. Banned via legislation that prohibits bushland clearing. It doesn't get any more clear cut than that.

Just recently, state Greens MP Amy MacMahon, perhaps a bit too empassioned for her own good, was ejected from parliament for "screaming"that habitat was being cleared at Deebing Creek, obviously directed at Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, who was speaking at that time.

While her outburst was highly questionable, one can't blame MacMahon, who represents a party whose core ideology is all about environmental protection, seeing red over Palaszczuk's continued kowtowing to development companies, at the expense of the environment. 

Deebing Creek is just one prime example of that. The cemetery and part of the old mission site are heritage listed and will be spared from desecration. 

But fat good that will be for the environment, and Aboriginal history, if 140 hectares that is now controlled by developers including Stockland and AV Jennings is predominantly bulldozed. 

Recently, a Stockland spokesperson, quote, said that the company "deeply respects the history of the area" and "has valued the time taken to engage" traditional owners.

Really now? I am sure that a few traditional owners from Deebing Creek who have tied themselves to bulldozers and trees to halt the destruction of their ancestral home, which is the 140 hectares in question, would very likely dispute both those claims.