Series 2 - CAFNEC 20th Anniversary


Date Range1980 - 2002
Quantity27 Folders
ProvenanceCairns and Far North Environment Centre
Description

This series consists of folders containing material used for a display during the 20th anniversary celebrations. Sequence is as items were displayed. Some photos that were used have been returned to their original location in the Daintree Series, and these have been listed on folder covers. There is also a summary poster which was displayed during the 20th Anniversary display.

ArrangedOriginal order maintained.
Related Series
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1  Daintree 1973 - 1996


Inventory Listing

1980-82 - Barrier Reef, Downey Ck, People for Peace(this was missing from folder), Cairns Central Swamp, Miscellaneous

Folder contains newspaper articles including
"Move on reef park" Cairns Post 13/4/1981;
"Joh lashes out at scientists" Cairns Post 5/11/1981;
"A choice we must make" 15/6/1983;
photograph at Downey Ck;
brochure protesting logging at Downey Creek, which lies about 30 kilometres south-west of Innisfail;
"Rally told aid pledged for Downey Creek" Cairns Post 14/4/1983;
copy of letter to the Editor of the Cairns Post re Cairns Central Swamp;
"Fear for Cairns Swamp survival" Cairns Post 29/7/1981;
letter from Cooktown Conservation Committee 13/8/1982;
report of Tableland Nature Awareness Society Meeting 24/3/1982;
copy of newspaper article with photo re blockade of road from Cape Tribulation to Bloomfield;
"Rainforest body sets up Cairns Branch" Cairns Post 12/5/1982
Folder also contained the following photographs (now in folder CAFN00072 Box 1/16) from series CAFNS001:
CAFN00090 - Meeting at Downey Creek
CAFN00091 - Mt Windsor picket
CAFN00092 - No nuclear shhips in Cairns

Creator Cairns and Far North Environment Centre
Control Folder 4 in 20th anniversary display sequence
Date range 1980 - 1982    Quantity 1 folder
Formats News Clippings
Inventory Identifier CAFN00107 Box Number 8 Series 2
1981-82, Foundation of CAFNEC

Folder contains newspaper articles including:
"Drilling threat to reef" Cairns Post 29/5/1981;
"Govt lashed over reef park delays" Cairns Post 30/5/1981
"Barrier Reef on World Heritage List" 27/10/1981;
copy of Ecotone, newsletter of CAFNEC, vol 1(1); 1(3); 2(4)

Creator Cairns and Far North Environment Centre
Control Folder 2 in 20th anniversery display sequence
Date range 1981 - 1982    Quantity 1 folder
Formats News Clippings and Newsletters
Inventory Identifier CAFN00105 Box Number 8 Series 2
1983 - Daintree

Folder contains copy of an article "In the beginning" which sets out the time frame from August to November 1983 for the construction of a 4WD track from Cape Tribulation to Bloomfield (article is not complete and there are no bibliographical details with it);
copy of cartoon (no bibliographical details);
photocopies of 2 photographs, one labelled Mike Berwick, December 1983, the other labelled "It ain't easy being green".
Folder also contained the following photographs (now in folder CAFN00072 Box 1/16) from Series CAFNS001:
CAFN00001 - Police protestors & media
CAFN00002 - Protestors
CAFN00014 - Stop crucifying the rainforest now
CAFN00017 - Faces of protestors
CAFN00026 - Direct action at the Daintree blockade
CAFN00028 - Struggle and arrest at the Daintree blockade site
CAFN00033 - Arrests of protestors at the Daintree blockade site
CAFN00036 - Arrests of protestors at the Daintree blockade site
CAFN00095 - Police discuss the situation with a protestor
CAFN00096 - A last look at the Daintree

Creator Cairns and Far North Environment Centre
Control Folder 5 in 20th anniversary display sequence
Date range 1983    Quantity 1 folder
Formats Published Papers or Articles, Loose Photographic Prints and Photocopied Documents
Inventory Identifier CAFN00108 Box Number 8 Series 2
1984 - Daintree

Folder contains newspaper articles including:
"WAG donates books" 2/8/1984;
"Tenni anyone?" People (undated);
photocopy of photo of Tony Mijo, Chairman of the Douglas Shire (undated);
"Protestors claim decisive victory" and "De Lacy under fire" 15/12/1983;
Quaid Real Estate advertisements 15 & 17/12/1984;
"Townsville conservationists join campaign to save trees" Townsville Bulletin 26/1/1984; copies of Ecotone vol 3(1); 3(2)
Folder also contained the following photograph (now in folder CAFN00072 Box 1/16) from Series CAFNS001:
CAFN00094 - Police keep an eye on a buried protestor

Creator Cairns and Far North Environment Centre
Control Folder 6 in 20th anniversary display sequence
Date range 1983 - 1984    Quantity 1 folder
Formats News Clippings, Newsletters and Photocopied Documents
Inventory Identifier CAFN00109 Box Number 8 Series 2
1984 - Daintree

Folder contains brochures on saving the Daintree;
newspaper articles including:
"Both sides give conflicting reports on road" Cairns Post 10/8/1984; "Ordinary people need to make a rainforest stand" 8/1984;
"Collection in the rainforest" 13/8/1984;
"Road protest song" 22/8/1984;
"Joh 'no way' to World Heritage list" 17/9/1984;
"Motorcade stranded" 8/10/1984;
"Wet Cape Trib road strands 50 cars" Townsville Bulletin 8/10/1984;
"It was a year of confrontations" Cairns Post 31/12/1984

Creator Cairns and Far North Environment Centre
Control Folder 7 in 20th anniversary display sequence
Date range 1984    Quantity 1 folder
Formats General Publications and News Clippings
Inventory Identifier CAFN00110 Box Number 8 Series 2
1985 - Trinity Bay and Inlet, Downey Creek, Daintree

Folder contains letter detailing evolution of CAFNEC;
newspaper articles including:
"Daintree Forest book published" Port Douglas & Mossman Gazette 31/1/1985;
"Council candidate profile" Port Douglas & Mossman Gazette 31/1/1985;
"Tourism may save forest" Cairns Post 7/3/1985;
"White slavery and drug deals off Cape Tribulation: Tenni theory" 19/3/1985;
"Nature on film" Cairns Post 31/5/1985;
"Nature in the north" Cairns Post 4/6/1985;
"Nature display" Cairns Post 5/6/1985;
"Cabinet looks at moratorium on Downey Ck" 16/7/1985;
"Information, hope, at grassroots"(undated);
2 unidentified photos;
brochure on saving the Cairns Wetlands
Folder also contained the following photographs (now in folder CAFN00072 Box 1/16) from series CAFNS001:
CAFN00097 - Cairns demo, Windsor logging
CAFN00098 - Lesley Clark 26/4/1985

Creator Cairns and Far North Environment Centre
Control Folder 8 in 20th anniversary display sequence
Date range 1985    Quantity 1 folder
Formats General Publications, General Correspondence, News Clippings and Loose Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier CAFN00111 Box Number 8 Series 2
1986

Folder contains newspaper articles including
"For future generations" Cairns Post 17/3/1986;
"Gift to conservationists" Cairns Post 31/3/1986

Creator Cairns and Far North Environment Centre
Control Folder 10 in 20th anniversary display sequence
Date range 1986    Quantity 1 folder
Formats News Clippings
Inventory Identifier CAFN00113 Box Number 8 Series 2
1987 - Tully Millstream, Trinity Inlet, Redden Island, local issues

Folder contains brochure on the Tully-Millstream hydro-electric scheme;
newspaper articles including
"Shire receives Redden petition" Cairns Post 9/1/1986;
"Hydro scheme refloated despite heritage listing"(undated);
"Minister misled state on power scheme - ALP" Cairns Post 9/7/1987;
"Wildlife Society celebrates 25 years" Cairns Post 26/8/1987;
"Mudflats tempt developers with tourist possibilities" Cairns Post 21/9/1987;
"The fate of Trinity Inlet hangs in the balance" Cairns Post 28/9/1987;
"Melaleuca swamp should be preserved, not filled"(undated);
"Hydro scheme not ruled out" Cairns Post 10/11/1987

Creator Cairns and Far North Environment Centre
Control Folder 9 in 20th anniversary display sequence
Date range 1987    Quantity 1 folder
Formats General Publications and News Clippings
Inventory Identifier CAFN00112 Box Number 8 Series 2
1987 - Wet Tropics

Folder contains newspaper articles including
"Massive support for rainforests" Port Douglas & Mossman Gazette 12/3/1987;
"Teacher earns shire award" Cairns Post 8/6/1987;
"Self-taught botanist a keen conservationist" Cairns Post 19/8/1987;
"Protestors out to make a point" 22/8/1987;
"Shire chairman slams heritage proposal" Douglas Times 26/8/1987
"Joh crusades against listing" Cairns Post 29/8/1987;
"Joh establishes agency to fight heritage listing" Cairns Post 3/9/1987;
"Forest listing a security threat" Cairns Post 9/9/1987;
"In the front line of forest conservation" Cairns Post 9/9/1987

Creator Cairns and Far North Environment Centre
Control Folder 11 in 20th anniversary display sequence
Date range 1987    Quantity 1 folder
Formats News Clippings
Inventory Identifier CAFN00114 Box Number 8 Series 2
1988 - Local issues/ Wet Tropics listing/Trinity Inlet/ Quaid Road politics

Folder contains newspaper articles including
"Taylor Point protest" Cairns Post 29/3/1988;
"Quaid Road stopped" Tablelands Advertisier 4/5/1988;
"Resource survey complete" Cairns Post 5/5/1988;
"Inlet development concerns mount" Cairns Post 28/5/1988;
"Well, helo there" Cairns Post 1/6/1988;
"Critics attack mudflats proposal" Cairns Post 17/6/1988;
"Heritage area announded" Tablelands Advertiser;
"Environmental council push" Cairns Post 14/9/1988;
"Something to celebrate" 15/12/1988;
article "Profile of Doctor Aila Keto" Simply living, vol 3(7) 1988;
copy of Ecofile September 1988

Creator Cairns and Far North Environment Centre
Control Folder 12 in 20th anniversary display sequence
Date range 1988    Quantity 1 folder
Formats News Clippings, Published Papers or Articles and Loose Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier CAFN00115 Box Number 8 Series 2
1989 - Local issues/Cape York space port

Folder contains newspaper articles including
"Mudflat project offers new life" Cairns Post 8/2/1989;
"Sign of the times" Cairns Post 16/2/1989;
"Petitions plenty" Cairns Post 27/2/1989;
"Power project will care for rainforest" Cairns Post 12/6/1989;
"Fight to stop inlet project" Cairns Post 2/10/1989;
"Conservationists urge caution on spaceport porject" media release 14/6/1989;
Ecotone Sept, Nov/Dec 1989;
letter to residents re petition to save the Cairns foreshore

Creator Cairns and Far North Environment Centre
Control Folder 15 in 20th anniversary display sequence
Date range 1989    Quantity 1 folder
Formats General Correspondence, News Clippings and Newsletters
Inventory Identifier CAFN00118 Box Number 8 Series 2
1990 - Tully Millstream,/Cominos House

Folder contains newspaper articles including
"PM pressured to stop Tully dam" 19/2/1990;
"Conservation is all in the family" Cairns Post 3/4/1990;
"Friends of Cominos" Cairns Post 26/3/1990;
"Core of Cominos House" Cairns Post 29/3/1990;
"Mourners bid final farewell" Cairns Post 19/5/1990;
Cairns envirofair for people who care" Cairns Post 29/5/1990;
"Cominos House restoration receives government boost" Cairns Post 16/6/1990;
"Restoration of Cominos House closer" 27/7/1990;
"Wet Tropics agency for FNQ" Cairns Post 3/9/1990;
"Greens still pulling widespread support" Cairns Post 27/12/1990;
Ecotone Feb/Mar 1990

Creator Cairns and Far North Environment Centre
Control Folder 16 in 20th anniversary display sequence
Date range 1990    Quantity 1 folder
Formats News Clippings and Newsletters
Inventory Identifier CAFN00119 Box Number 8 Series 2
1991 - CAFNEC in new home/Tully Millstream/ Cairns Central Swamp/local issues/hillside development

Folder contains newspaper articles including
"Debt warning over Tully hydro scheme" Townsville Bulletin 1/5/1991;
"No hillside development, say greens" Cairns Post 3/8/1991;
"CAFNEC to the polls?" Barfly 29/8/1991;
"Protest march on developer" Cairns Post 7/9/1991;
"Caravonica bulldozing concerns chairman" Northern Beachcomber 27/9/1991;
"CAFNEC quits as watchdog on Green Island work group" Cairns Post 25/10/1991;
"Greens warn on swamp filling" Cairns Post 7/11/1991;
"Cominos House use dispute" Cairns Post 21/3/1992;
"Cominos House booked by Far North Greens" Cairns Post 25/3/1992;
"Old foes hope jobs grow on trees" Australian 5/6/1992;
CAFNEC brochure;
press release "Enviro Centre calls upon Mayor to save Central Swamp" 31/10/1991;
"It isn't easy being green" Bulletin 1991;
photographs - Mary Burg at Cominos House 1992 and Envirofair 1992

Creator Cairns and Far North Environment Centre
Control Folder 17 in 20th anniversary display sequence
Date range 1991 - 1992    Quantity 1 folder
Formats News Clippings
Inventory Identifier CAFN00120 Box Number 8 Series 2
1992 - CAFNEC 10 year anniversary

CAFNEC celebrated its 10th anniversary at Goomboora Park, Brindmead Glen, on 1/12/1991
Folder contains 4 photographs, 2 of anniversary celebrations and 2 of Envirofair 1992;
newspaper articles including
"Cassowary trees planted" Cairns Post 18/2/1991;
"The Bloomfield Road" 14/3/1991;
"Long council era over for Tony Mijo" Cairns Post 25/3/1991;
"Tully another Franklin" Cairns Post 27/3/1991;
"CAFNEC - now we are 10" Barfly 28/11/1991;
"Time to grow CAFNEC told" Barfly 5/12/1991;
copy of letter and media release

Creator Cairns and Far North Environment Centre
Control Folder 14 in 20th anniversary display sequence
Date range 1991 - 1992    Quantity 1 folder
Formats General Correspondence, News Clippings and Loose Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier CAFN00117 Box Number 8 Series 2
1993 - Remembrance 10 years

Folder contains newspaper articles including
"Greens' candidate field expert" Cairns Post 10/3/1993;
"Toast to Cominos House" Cairns Post 29/5/1993;
"CAFNEC grant stirs debate by aldermen" Cairns Post 12/6/1993;
"Bloomfield battle scars remain" Cairns Post 29/11/1993;
copy of cover of Ecotone vol 12(3); 13(5)

Creator Cairns and Far North Environment Centre
Control Folder 13 in 20th anniversary display sequence
Date range 1993    Quantity 1 folder
Formats News Clippings and Newsletters
Inventory Identifier CAFN00116 Box Number 8 Series 2
1994 - Rainbow Harbour/local issues

Folder contains newspaper articles including
"All the fun of the fair" Cairns Post 25/9/1992;
"Water weed clean up planned" Cairns Post 22/1/1993;
"Direct action from protestors" Northern Beachcomber 12/3/1993;
"De Lacy slams extreme green" Cairns Post 3/4/1993;
"Protestors to picket" Northern Beachcomber 2/4/1993;
"Lecture, tour series aims at ecotourism" Cairns Post 18/6/1993;
"CAFNEC display full of energy" Cairns Post 15/11/1993;
"Douglas places cap on growth" Cairns Post 5/1/1994;
"Skyrail" Voice Magazine 29/12-11/1/1994;
"Protestors in training for Sky-rail fight" 29/1/1994;
"Push for tree bylaws" 25/8/1994;
cover of Ecotone vol 14(1);
photographs - Anna Reynolds, Sean Purcell, 3/1994
Folder also contained the following photographs (now in folder CAFN00072 Box 1/16)from Series CAFNS001:
CAFN00099 - Giselle Thomas & Jim Downey
CAFN00100 - Giselle Thomas, Lesley Clark, Margaret Thorsbourne, Envirofair 1992
CAFN00101 - Peter Garrett and Jim Downey opening new wildlife calendar 1991(?)
CAFN00102 - Demonstrators at Quaids
CAFN00103 - Demonstrators at Quaids

Creator Cairns and Far North Environment Centre
Control Folder 18 in 20th anniversary display sequence
Date range 1992 - 1994    Quantity 1 folder
Formats News Clippings
Inventory Identifier CAFN00121 Box Number 8 Series 2
1995 - Local issues

Folder contains newspaper article "Residents block sub-division work" Cairns Post 17/6/1994;
media release "No Tully dam, a victory for common sense";
photograph

Creator Cairns and Far North Environment Centre
Control Folder 19 in display sequence
Date range 1994 - 1995    Quantity 1 folder
Formats News Clippings
Inventory Identifier CAFN00093 Box Number 8 Series 2
1996 - Local issues

Folder contains newspaper articles including
"MP vows to slash funds for CAFNEC" Cairns Post 20/3/1996;
"I'm sorry CAFNEC, says Clark" Cairns Post 3/1996;
"New green group looks to harmony" Cairns Post 10/4/1996;
"Frog watch mission" Cairns Post 25/7/1997;
"Pedal power peeves Pyne" Cairns Post 12/8/1997;
letter re reconciliation in Cape York Peninsula through caring for country;
photographs - T-shirt with "No more dams in world heritage" slogan
- Hands planting 1996

Creator Cairns and Far North Environment Centre
Control Folder 20 in 20th anniversary display sequence
Date range 1996 - 1997    Quantity 1 folder
Formats General Correspondence, News Clippings and Loose Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier CAFN00122 Box Number 8 Series 2
1997 - Hinchinbrook, Daintree clearing, Quaid Rd

Folder contains newspaper articles including
"Expert refutes Greens stance" Cairns Post 13/4/1996;
"Protestors rail against resort" Cairns Post 22/7/1997;
"Protests escalate" Cairns Post 1/9/1997;
"Blood spills at Oyster Pt" Cairns Post 15/9/1997;
"Chamber faces cost for police" Cairns Post 8/11/1997;
"Taylor Pt fight fund call" Cairns Post 8/11/1997;
"Rainforest at risk" Cairns Post 17/11/1997
media release 3/4/1997;
"Who is CAFNEC" information

Creator Cairns and Far North Environment Centre
Control Folder 21 in 20th anniversary display sequence
Date range 1996 - 1997    Quantity 1 folder
Formats News Clippings
Inventory Identifier CAFN00123 Box Number 8 Series 2
1998 - Full monty fundraiser, Cape York, Daintree clearing

Folder contains newspaper articles including
"Green cash slashed" Cairns Post 7/1/1998;
"Group too political" Cairns Post 24/1/1998;
"Greens fund relief" 28/1/1998;
"Greens knock coalition" Cairns Post 5/6/1998
flyer for fundraiser;
brochure on Cominos House;
covers of Ecotone Vol17(5); 18(2)

Creator Cairns and Far North Environment Centre
Control Folder 22 in 20th anniversary display sequence
Date range 1998    Quantity 1 folder
Formats General Publications, News Clippings and Newsletters
Inventory Identifier CAFN00124 Box Number 8 Series 2
1999 - East Trinity saved

Folder contains newspaper articles including
"CAFNEC optomistic of staying open" Cairns Post 20/1/1999;
"Snubbed - anger at awards shut-out" Cairns Post 19/7/1999;
"State buys East Trinity" Cairns Post 8/5/2000;
invitation to "Come and celebrate East Trinity saved!";
cover of Ecotone vol 19(2);
photograph of Envirofiesta 2001

Creator Cairns and Far North Environment Centre
Control Folder 24 in 20th anniversary display sequence
Date range 1999 - 2000    Quantity 1 folder
Formats News Clippings, Newsletters and Loose Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier CAFN00125 Box Number 8 Series 2
2000

Folder contains
newspaper article "Issues to fore for enviro group" Cairns Post 19/1/2000;
cover of Ecotone vol 20(1; 20(2) with information on new committee

Creator Cairns and Far North Environment Centre
Control Folder 23 in 20th anniversary display sequence
Date range 2000    Quantity 1 folder
Formats News Clippings and Newsletters
Inventory Identifier CAFN00126 Box Number 8 Series 2
2001 Cassowary Awards

Folder contains newspaper articles including
"Cash to help tidy swamp" Cairns Post 28/3/2001;
media release "Starcke : after six years - the journey home is nearly complete" The Wilderness Society 11/4/2001;
media release "Locals get into the swamp" CAFNEC 24/5/2001;
"Environmental volunteers saluted" Cairns Post 20/8/2001
brochure for Cassowary Awards and photographs (x4) of the awards;
brochure for and photograph of Envirofiesta 2001

Creator Cairns and Far North Environment Centre
Control Folder 26 in 20th anniversary display sequence
Date range 2001    Quantity 1 folder
Formats General Publications, News Clippings and Loose Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier CAFN00128 Box Number 8 Series 2
Cape York Heads of Agreement signing

Folder contains print out of "Queensland Government gets behind Cape York Heads of Agreement" from the Australian Conservation Foundation;
10 photographs of signing (those present are listed in print out);
1 photograph of "Sunbird Awards" CAFNEC 20th anniversary;
1 photograph of Ann Van Der Wolf and Rob Williams;
article "Hope for reconciliation rests with Cape York Agreement" by Gavan McFadzean 11/4/2002

Creator Cairns and Far North Environment Centre
Control Folder 25 in 20th anniversary display sequence
Date range 2001 - 2002    Quantity 1 folder
Formats Published Papers or Articles and Loose Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier CAFN00127 Box Number 8 Series 2
Poster

Poster on 20th Anniversary of the Cairns and Far North Environment Centre

Creator Cairns and Far North Environment Centre
Control Original order maintained
Quantity 1 folder Inventory Identifier CAFN00347 Box Number 26 Series 2
Pre 1980 - Barrier Reef

Folder contains newspaper article "Congress calls for marine park for entire reef", Cairns Post, June 1980;
copy of cover and information about the book "The coral battleground", the story of the groundbreaking campaign to save the Great Barrier Reef by Judith Wright;
biographical information about Judith Wright

Creator Cairns and Far North Environment Centre
Control Folder 1 in 20th anniversary display sequence
Date range 1980    Quantity 1 folder
Formats News Clippings and Loose Notes
Inventory Identifier CAFN00104 Box Number 8 Series 2
Windsor Tablelands Blockade

Folder contains newspaper articles including
"Protest song" The Advertiser 18/11/1981;
"Fined after logging protest" Cairns Post 6/4/1982;
"Logging worse than ever" Cairns Post 1/11/1982;
brochure titled "Rescue the rainforests - Stop Logging Windsor";
photo strip showing logging;
2 photos showing McLeod River campsite for Mt Windsor picket, November 1981;
R. Russell photographing roadworks damage at Mt Windsor 1981

Creator Cairns and Far North Environment Centre
Control Folder 3 in 20th anniversary display sequence
Date range 1981 - 1982    Quantity 1 folder
Formats News Clippings and Loose Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier CAFN00106 Box Number 8 Series 2

Published by the James Cook University Library on JCU web, June 2009
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