K’gari calling:Qld’s Fraser Island may be officially renamed

K’gari calling:Qld’s Fraser Island may be officially renamed

Two Palaszczuk government ministers have backed a proposal to rename the world’s largest sand island K’gari,an Aboriginal word for “paradise”.

  • byNick Gibbs

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Fires threaten sensitive K’gari dune systems,report warns

Fires threaten sensitive K’gari dune systems,report warns

Seven threatened plant and animal species on the World Heritage-listed site also had up to three-quarters of their island habitat burnt,a long-awaited Queensland government scientific report has found.

  • byMatt Dennien
Flood flotsam hits 2 million pieces as cleaners storm the beaches

Flood flotsam hits 2 million pieces as cleaners storm the beaches

A delicate race against time to remove tonnes of flood debris from a World-Heritage listed island is ramping up.

  • byMatt Dennien
Fraser Island fire team weighed up potential legal backlash by ‘disgruntled’ community
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Fraser Island fire team weighed up potential legal backlash by ‘disgruntled’ community

Fire-control strategies considered amid the blaze on K’gari last year included a “do-nothing” option that referenced the risk of litigation from the island’s tourism industry and community.

  • byMatt Dennien
Parks executive cited ‘unwarranted pressure’ in early K’gari burn halt
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Parks executive cited ‘unwarranted pressure’ in early K’gari burn halt

Details have emerged of the efforts Queensland authorities took in the early days of the blaze,eventually burning more than half the World Heritage-listed site also known as Fraser Island.

  • byMatt Dennien
One year on,documents show Fraser blaze was deemed uncontainable within hours
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One year on,documents show Fraser blaze was deemed uncontainable within hours

Internal Queensland government documents detail the early scramble to manage the blaze,which burned more than half the World Heritage-listed island across two months from October last year.

  • byMatt Dennien
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Number plates to be photographed on Fraser Island as part of bushfire strategy

Number plates to be photographed on Fraser Island as part of bushfire strategy

Fraser Island campers will have the number plates of their 4WDs photographed by the Queensland government as they try to prevent bushfires on Australia’s largest sand island.

  • byTony Moore
Campers’ rego plates and phones may be tracked in wake of Fraser Island fire

Campers’ rego plates and phones may be tracked in wake of Fraser Island fire

Thirty-eight recommendations were tabled by the Queensland government in its review of the bushfire that razed 87,000 hectares of the World Heritage-listed island.

  • byTony Moore
Boy,4,bitten on the thigh by a dingo

Boy,4,bitten on the thigh by a dingo

In the second attack on Fraser Island in as many weeks,a dingo has bitten a boy on Orchid Beach.

  • byJocelyn Garcia
Woman describes how she rescued toddler from dingo on Fraser Island

Woman describes how she rescued toddler from dingo on Fraser Island

The woman said she ran outside after hearing a child scream and rescued the two-year-old,who was being attacked by a growling dingo.

  • byCloe Read
Tourism toll revealed after Fraser blaze as attention turns to report
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Tourism toll revealed after Fraser blaze as attention turns to report

A review into the Queensland government’s response to the 2020 bushfire is expected to be made publicly ‘in due course’ amid calls for compensation and a further inquiry.

  • byMatt Dennien