Series PAKS0001 - Files


Date Range1993
Quantity20 folders
ProvenancePeople Against Kuranda Skyrail
Description

This series consists of files associated with the People Against Kuranda Skyrail's campaign against the construction of the Skyrail from Caravonica to Kuranda.

ArrangedOriginal order maintained

Inventory Listing

Background information

Folder contains maps;
tower details;
"Skyrail - an overview" PAKS;
Skyrail briefing paper;
"Why skyrail is bad for Kuranda business" PAKS;
copy of "The Disneyfication of Queensland" Sean Purcell, CAFNEC;
briefing notes on Skyrail;
PAKS newsletter;
picture of site with superimposed cablecar

Creator People Against Kuranda Skyrail
Quantity 1 folder Formats Maps, Newsletters, Loose Notes and Photocopied Documents
Inventory Identifier PAKS00001 Box Number 1 Series PAKS0001
Campaign information

Display book contains
contact numbers;
principles of nonviolence;
PAKS Skyrail Campain parameters;
newspaper article "Protestors arrested" Cairns Post 22/11/1994;
Skyrail documentary script;
brochures;
flyer advertising a non-violent street march;
correspondence from the Djabugay Tribal Aboriginal Corporation;
handwritten notes

Creator People Against Kuranda Skyrail
Date range 1993 - 1994    Quantity 1 display book
Formats General Correspondence, Loose Notes and Photocopied Documents
Inventory Identifier PAKS00002 Box Number 1 Series PAKS0001
Miscellaneous

Folder contains correspondence;
CAFNEC campaign strategy meeting 10/8/1994;
ideas on developing a campaign strategy;
report on PAKS meeting 13/7/1994;
PAKS skyrail strategy news;
Djabugay Tribal Aboriginal Corporation media release "Djabugay to dance at Keating anti-skyrail protest" 20/7/1994; "Kuranda cableway clears more sacred aboriginal land" 6/7/1994;
PAKS press release "PAKS says Faulkner's credibility on the line over World Heritage mis-statement" 28/7/1994; "Clarification of PAK'S position" 27/4/1994; "Government funds World Heritage destruction. Hypocritical" 2/8/1994
PAKS presentation to ARK (Association for regional Kuranda) 14/12/1993;
maps;
briefing notes on Skyrail for the meeting between CAFNEC and Alison McCusker (DEST) and Peter Sesterka (Tourism). Wilderness Society and People Against Kuranda Skyrail (PAKS) in attendance;
list of questions from meeting and Sky-Rail's answers to them 5/5/1992;
photocopy of "Bumpy ride for forest" GEO, vol 16 no. 4, 1994;
photocopies of newspaper articles on the Hindmarsh Bridge

Creator People Against Kuranda Skyrail
Date range 1994    Quantity 1 folder
Formats General Correspondence, Maps, Minutes and Agendas and Loose Notes
Inventory Identifier PAKS00003 Box Number 1 Series PAKS0001
Miscellaneous

Folder contains drawings of towers;
list of locations of towers;
several copies of page 69 of the Impact Assessment Report (concerns increased road and track access to the national park and visual effects);
Skyrail - an overview;
briefing notes on Skyrail;
map of proposed cablecar route

Creator People Against Kuranda Skyrail
Control Original order maintained
Quantity 1 folder Formats Maps, Photocopied Documents and Lists
Inventory Identifier PAKS00005 Box Number 1 Series PAKS0001
Miscellaneous

Folder contains summary of proposed Rainbow Harbour development;
copy of "Who dares to open Skyrail?";
handwritten notes on the Kuranda Skyrail - the PAKS view;
handwritten comments;
correspondence;
informal meeting minutes 2/2/1994

Creator People Against Kuranda Skyrail
Date range 1993 - 1994    Quantity 1 folder
Formats General Correspondence, Minutes and Agendas and Loose Notes
Inventory Identifier PAKS00006 Box Number 1 Series PAKS0001
Press releases

Display book contains lists of questions;
PAKS media releases "Clarification of PAKS' position" 27/4/1994; "Wet Tropics watch dog a whipped dog say conservation groups" 11/4/1994; "National day of action against Kuranda skyrail" 8/4/1994; release dated 17/3/1994; "Kuranda train figures questionable" 15/2/1994; "PAKS outraged by Dr Lesley Clarke's comments" 10/2/1994; "Kuranda marketers oppose Skyrail" 31/1/1994; "Invitation to the media" 27/1/1994; "Skyrail guidelines farcical says PAKS" 6/12/1993
transcript of press conference 13/4/1994;
press release "Far North Greens back People Against Kuranda Skyrail. Clark certain to lose seat say Greens" 15/2/1994; reply release from Lesley Clark 10/2/1994

Creator People Against Kuranda Skyrail
Control Original order maintained
Date range 1993 - 1994    Quantity 1 display book
Formats Photocopied Documents and Lists
Inventory Identifier PAKS00007 Box Number 1 Series PAKS0001
Maps and pictures

Folder contains photocopy of artistic impression of proposed skyrail cablecar;
maps of area;
colour photocopies of before and after photos;
colour photocopies showing photos of large rainforest trees growing on or near the tower bases;

Creator People Against Kuranda Skyrail
Control Original order maintained
Quantity 1 folder Formats Minutes and Agendas
Inventory Identifier PAKS00010 Box Number 1 Series PAKS0001
Lobbying and conservation organisation strategies and guidelines

Folder contains suggestions for conservation orgainsations;
Kuranda Skyrail proposal for an advanced workshop at an action site;
copy of "The three types of power" from "Truth or dare", Starhawk, 1990;
copy of "Lobbying a minister" AM News, Summer 1992/93;
copy of "A strategic framework for nonviolent struggle";
copy of "Inter-continental deluxe guide to blockading";
copy of Nonviolence today no. 32, May/June 1993

Creator People Against Kuranda Skyrail
Control Original order maintained
Date range 1990 - 1994    Quantity 1 folder
Formats Photocopied Documents
Inventory Identifier PAKS00011 Box Number 1 Series PAKS0001
Newspaper clippings

Display book contains newspaper clippings concerning Skyrail;
minutes of meeting held 26/10/1993

Creator People Against Kuranda Skyrail
Control Original order maintained
Date range 1993 - 1994    Quantity 1 display book
Formats Minutes and Agendas and News Clippings
Inventory Identifier PAKS00012 Box Number 1 Series PAKS0001
Petitions

Folder contains petitions presented to the State and Federal governments opposing the construction of Skyrail;
correspondence covering the presentation of these petitions

Creator People Against Kuranda Skyrail
Date range 1994    Quantity 1 folder
Formats General Correspondence
Inventory Identifier PAKS00013 Box Number 1 Series PAKS0001
Petitions

Folder contains petitions presented to the State and Federal governments opposing the construction of Skyrail

Creator People Against Kuranda Skyrail
Date range 1994    Quantity 1 folder
Inventory Identifier PAKS00014 Box Number 1 Series PAKS0001
Media releases

Display book contains list of media contacts;
Barron Gorge Wildlife Action Group media releases "Action expected at Red Peak on Monday after weekend spent preparing defences" 19/6/1994; "Skyrail starts work with deception" 18/6/1994; "Activists prepare to stop Sky-rail" 21/5/1994;
PAKS media release dated 18/6/1994; 6/7/1994

Creator People Against Kuranda Skyrail
Control Original order maintained
Date range 1994    Quantity 1 display book
Formats Photocopied Documents
Inventory Identifier PAKS00015 Box Number 2 Series PAKS0001
Kuranda market stall holders request

Folder contains copies of requests from Kuranda market stall holders to the State Government requesting that the stall holders and Kuranda residents be given an opportunity to view all relevant research material, plans and documentation relating to the proposed Sky Rail project.

Creator People Against Kuranda Skyrail
Control Original order maintained
Date range 1994    Quantity 1 folder
Formats General Correspondence
Inventory Identifier PAKS00016 Box Number 2 Series PAKS0001
Address lists

Display book contains address lists for Parliamentarians, Councillors of Mulgrave Shire Council, press contacts, conservation organisations, rainforest action groups, conservation and environment groups, Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland, Wet Tropics Consultative Committee, voluntary conservation organisations, Australian Conservation Foundation branches

Creator People Against Kuranda Skyrail
Control Original order maintained
Quantity 1 display book Formats Minutes and Agendas and Photocopied Documents
Inventory Identifier PAKS00017 Box Number 2 Series PAKS0001
The inter-continental deluxe guide to blockading

Display book contains copy of "The inter-continental deluxe guide to blockading"

Creator People Against Kuranda Skyrail
Control Original order maintained
Date range 1994    Quantity 1 display book
Formats Photocopied Documents
Inventory Identifier PAKS00018 Box Number 2 Series PAKS0001
Miscellaneous

Folder contains brochures for PAKS;
brochure for the Barron Gorge Wildlife Action Group;
copy of Citizens for Skyrail fact sheet;
colour photocopies of trees in the area;
resume of companys connected with cableway;
summary of the Cairns Cableway Kuranda;
correspondence including copies of letters to the Policy Director, Planning and Special Projects, Qld Department of Transport, the Hon Ros Kelly, Minister for the Environment, the Ministerial Council for World Heritage;
summary

Creator People Against Kuranda Skyrail
Control Original order maintained
Date range 1993    Quantity 1 folder
Formats General Correspondence and Photocopied Documents
Inventory Identifier PAKS00022 Box Number 2 Series PAKS0001
Miscellaneous

Folder contains copy of "Survey of world heritage values along the alignment of the proposed cableway between Smithfield and Kuranda" by Dr. M F Olsen and Mrs. M Goosem, 1/6/1992;
"Documentation of world heritage values and identification of degraded areas between the Barron Gorge and the Cairns-Kuranda (Kennedy) highway", Hollingsworth Dames & Moore, April 1992;
"The case against Skyrail" prepared by PAKS, 8/11/1993

Creator People Against Kuranda Skyrail
Date range 1992 - 1993    Quantity 1 folder
Formats Published Papers or Articles and Photocopied Documents
Inventory Identifier PAKS00023 Box Number 2 Series PAKS0001
Brochures

Folder contains brochures for Skyrail and surrounding areas;
copy of Overview, the official newsletter issue 6;
souvenir book for Skyrail;
CSIRO brochure for the Rainforest Interpretation Centre at Barron Falls Station, Skyrail Rainforest Cableway, Cairns, Australia

Creator People Against Kuranda Skyrail
Control Original order maintained
Quantity 1 folder Formats Brochures
Inventory Identifier PAKS00024 Box Number 2 Series PAKS0001
Notes on environmentalists and the Federal Government

Folder contains information on lobbying the Federal Government

Creator People Against Kuranda Skyrail
Quantity 1 folder Formats Loose Notes
Inventory Identifier PAKS00035 Box Number 3 Series PAKS0001
Miscellaneous

Folder contains correspondence;
minutes of meetings held on 17/5/1994, 15/3/1994;
newsletter;
photocopies of various newspaper articles;
Skyrail - an overview

Creator People Against Kuranda Skyrail
Date range 1994    Quantity 1 folder
Formats General Correspondence, Minutes and Agendas, Loose Notes and Photocopied Documents
Inventory Identifier PAKS00036 Box Number 3 Series PAKS0001

Published by the James Cook University Library on 11th June 2009,
Listed by Janine Meakin
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