2011-MORE TREES TO BE PLANTED – 7ha of dry rainforest may be planted in the Secret Forest area of the Common soon as funds seem to have been set aside out of the Brisbane City Council’s two million tree project.
2011-ESTABLISHING A COMMUNITY FARM – hopefully could start once a body is set up quite soon to manage the Common and tenure is properly sorted out between the Queensland State Government and the Brisbane City Council.
A Community Farm Proposal has been completed now following our 31/1/09 workshop. The gathered community folk, on the 31/1/09 stated they wanted a community farm to get going as soon as possible. This proposal has been forwared to both the Qld Govt Works Dept and the Brsbane City Council.
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COMMUNITY WORKSHOP AREA like a Men’s Shed could be set up under the old gifted house. Does anyone know how the community can find funds or go about retrofittig the gifted house sitting on the high land which presently has no stumps under it? We have in our hands a letter from the Brisbane Markets Limited stating that this house was indeed gifted to the community.
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2008-READ OUR LETTER BELOW Friends of Oxley Common Inc have written to The Department of Public Works with cc to Councillor Nicole Johnstn, Councillor Peter Matic, Councillor Helen Abrahams, BCC’s Senior Policy Office – Open Space Management Frances Hudson, Federal MP Graham Perrett, and State MP Ronan Lee, State Sustainability Minister Andrew McNamara stating:-
“With the present Global Financial downturn, right now is the time to start various community projects on the Oxley Creek Common which have been proposed by the community over the last 10 years.
TOP PRIORTY we think at present is a community farm which includes seedsaving.
Food produced in the City of Brisbane will help to ease all sorts of fears already showing up in Brisbane.
Our suggestion is that the Common be managed as a whole, and not carved up, with substantial community input. That would then produce a positve community voice which would be able to be heard and have the effect of balancing any upcoming financial gloom and doon. Innovative sustainable projects and sustainable education would send a very positive signal to the community that could enable people to focus locally and also motivate them to help to be part of local urban sustainable solution”
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2007-July 2007 A presentation was made to D.P.I. Please take the time to read our “18/7/07 Presentation to the Department of Primary Resources & Fisheries ” [36kb PDF]
2007-January 2007 Friends of Oxley Common Inc was contacted and asked to comment on Greening Australia’s tree planting proposal for the Oxley Creek Common where the Lord Mayor was to launch his project.
Please take this opportunity to read “Friends of Oxley Common’s Response to Greening Australia’s Proposal” and view the “Friends of Oxley Common’s Ecological Restoration Proposal Map-February 2007” which accompanies this response.
Subsequently, Friends of Oxley Common Inc. have recommended to both The Brisbane City Council and to the Department of Public Works (who are currently managing the Common) that a Hydrological Study together with a Sustainable Agriculture and Recreational Land Use Plan be combined with the information contained in our Response and Ecological Restoration Proposal Map.
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2006-December 2006 The Lord Mayor Campbell Newman issued a press release which stated;-
“Getting on with delivering his first CitySmart project, Lord Mayor Campbell Newman today announced Brisbane City Council (BCC) will soon be working with Greening Australia and other partners, to begin the Oxley Creek to Ocean Project (02 Project).
Councillor Newman said the 02 Project would act as the pilot program to demonstrate the feasibility, administrative and working arrangement for a long term plan to create the South East Queensland Regional Carbon Sink (SEQRCS).”
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2005-May 2005 A CALL FOR ACTION document [37kb.PDF] was produced following the 15/5/05 Community Workshop. Please take the time to read this document.