For the NQ crew this is to close to home IMO,
Well its on Friday 24.1.2014, Gather at Anzac Park Townsville , then a casual walk/protest down to Reef HQ. The aim is to persuade the GOV/GBRMPA against the Dredging/dumping of 3-4 million cubes of ****e onto the Great Barrier Reef. What a Joke. Surely. All welcome.

I also find "dredging/dumping .... onto the reef" a bit of a crock. I might be wrong but I thought the only place in Oz where there's reef right off the beach is Ningaloo? I mean I've been all up & down the aussie coast and I thought the only way to see anything decent of the Great Barrier Reef was to get out in a boat. Correct me if I'm wrong but most of the coast I've seen around Gladstone &/or Abbott Point isn't really worth writing home about, just muddy shoreline.

According to Dr Google Maps the nearest reef is about 40-50kms out to sea by my eye.
www.google.com.au/maps?q=abbott+point&hl=en&ll=-19.509315,148.360748&spn=1.243947,1.918488&sll=-19.457034,145.879162&sspn=39.131816,61.391602&t=h&hq=abbot+point&z=10