Black Swan Lake is a rain-filled borrow pit alongside the Gold Coast Turf Club which was recently saved by local campaigning from being turned into a car park.
Recently Greg Roberts (no relation) put up an impassioned and ultimately successful campaign to prevent these wetlands being drained and returned to farming; it’s not over yet, but the main floodgates have been re-opened.
Here is my new map of Bimblebox Nature Refuge, 80km2 of outback Queensland in pristine condition but threatened with complete destruction by the proposed China First coal mine.