“Main Roads has indicated that driver safety is their primary responsibility, but respect our right to have signs along the highway,” the email said. The advice is for star pickets to be replaced with tomato stakes and signs with letters that are less than 15cm high to have 20-30cm high characters for easy reading. “Putting signs directly under existing traffic warning signs also distracts the driver from getting important safety info,” protesters have been advised. “We need to remove any signs near bends, turns or intersections. “These create distractions where there is already a high accident rate.” Protesters who erected the signs are being asked to take ownership of them and carry out the necessary removals or adjustments, but a work party will ensure all the changes are made.

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Here is an updated summary of the sketchy information that we have been able to glean from DNRM&W staff during the public forum process and later consultations concerning scientific, legal, engineering and construction aspects of the dam and it’s impact Some of this advice has only been given verbally.

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Please feel free to re-print and distribute the information on this page as widely as possible, particularly in Metropolitan areas.

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Do yourselves a favour … Rush out and get a copy of “For the Love of Mary” - the soon-to-be-released CD of songs and poems hailing our blessed Mary River. If there was ever a need for a pick-me-up in this on-going campaign, this CD is the thing to do it.

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he Save the Mary River Coordinating Group has produced a series of three short television ads to bring the issue of the Mary River Dam proposal to the attention of viewers in Metropolitan Queensland. They can be viewed in Windows Media Player and will take some time to download (about 3MB) each. Although political in nature - protesting against the actions of the current state government, they do not support any particular political party. In fact, local candidates from all parties as well as independants were opposed to the proposal. The issue caused a sitting member to leave the Labour party and another long-standing labor candidate to leave the party and run as an independent.

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MARY River campaigners are taking their fight to the most visual media—television — with a hard-hitting advertising campaign kicking off on September 1 Using the hype of the State’s election fever, the Save the Mary River Coordinating Committee has decided to throw some punches of its own across Channel Seven in both its regional and Brisbane metropolitan areas. The commercials are designed to clearly tell the residents of South-East Queensland, and especially the Brisbane voters, that the Beattie Government’s proposal to dam the Mary River is the result of poor planning and that it won’t solve the water crisis.

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PREMIER Peter Beattie has used psychological warfare on the people of the Mary Valley and the casualties are mounting. Anti-dam campaigner Kevin lngersole is at the frontline of this battlefield, where he said the people of the Mary Valley and surrounding region had been subjected to classic strong-arm tactics. “Until it happens to you, it is impossible to understand how utterly disempowering and frustrating it is to have big government insist that it is going to dispossess you of your hard-earned property,” the semi-retired company strategist said.

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The Save the Mary River Co-ordinating Group is unswerving in its opposition to the proposed Mary River Dam and stopping the dam is, and always will be, the number one aim of the group, The Committee remains vehemently opposed to the concept of a Traveston Crossing dam on sound social, economic and environmental grounds and fully intend to pursue the matter to it’s ultimate conclusion. University professors, geologists, engineers, modelling experts, environmental experts, lawyers and indigenous groups are assisting in tackling every aspect of the decision process to build this dam. Outcomes will include technical information which will enable the Committee to challenge the Government; legal challenge of due process providing the true facts for Queenslanders. Constant media exposure will ensure that we are being heard, read or seen.

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