Queensland pushed for wetlands boundary change before development, letters suggest

Confidential letter says ‘historical mapping anomalies are now compromising the revitalisation of Toondah harbour’

The Queensland government advocated for a boundary change to internationally listed wetlands to make way for a proposed development at Toondah harbour, according to confidential letters to the federal government.

One letter also claims that areas that could be the site of future development should have been excluded from the Ramsar wetland when its boundary was drawn up in the 1990s.

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