

Regarding Toondah Harbour.
My response is in several parts.
TNL has a policy on Koala conservation and a strong position on the environment and climate.
Toondah Harbour, as a development, should be subject to a full, transparent and fully independent assessment for environmental impact and economic value.
The environmental impact assessment should consider the entire eco-system given the contiguous nature of the wetlands and other environments from the Brisbane river down to Hope Island, and throughout the Moreton Bay islands region.
Anything that has the "possibility" of creating further disruption or degradation of the natural environment should be stopped. My view is that the developer would need to show how this "possibility of risk" would be eliminated (not simply mitigation or remediated).
The economic assessment should be undertaken using the TNFD (Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures) Nature-relate Risk & Opportunity Management and Disclosure Framework - Beta v0.1 Release March 2022.
The TNFD reports that more than half of the world's economic output ... ... is highly or moderately dependent on nature. The economic assessment would look at the long term economic value and returns of the development compared to an increasingly unique wetland landscape (that is within 2 hours of 2 international airports).