BIODIVERSITY, SUSTAINABILITY: “Mayor angry at biosphere blow”

Caboolture Shire Herald
2 September 2008

MAYOR Allan Sutherland has slammed his Brisbane counterpart as “ignorant” for dismissing a plan to create a 320,000ha UNESCO Biosphere on the D’Aguilar Range.

Brisbane City Council has refused to commit a cent and ridiculed the plan at its meeting last week. “What is this garbage?” Lord Mayor Campbell Newman asked…

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