Very old QCC invitation from the 1970s
Environment Writing

QCC: A 50 year history of Queensland Conservation Council

Caroline GardamComments Off on QCC: A 50 year history of Queensland Conservation Council

In 2019, Queensland Conservation Council (QCC) celebrated a milestone — Queensland’s peak environment body turned 50.

To commemorate the event, I researched and wrote a (reasonably brief) QCC history. It took a lot of willpower not to let the research take over! Fascinating information is hidden in the hundreds of boxes of documents held at both the State Library and UQ’s Fryer. I found joy, reading of the good fights fought – and sometimes won.

And sadness at campaigns lost.

Magazine article about developer Keith Williams battling greenies over the Port HInchinbrook resort

I’ve recently realised this history page is now live on the QCC website:

https://www.queenslandconservation.org.au/our_history

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west end Writing

Wordsmithery

Caroline Gardam

  At this delightful soiree a few weeks ago, mid-anecdote, I was whacked with one of those personal life realisations: not quite an epiphany but probably not far off. It was a fabulous shindig: a local landscaper, nursery owner, and all-round bon vivant threw a party to celebrate his premises expanding from the heritage brick […]
Books Writing

Quandry

Caroline Gardam

I’m all in a dither over this latest review. Already, it’s taken much longer to write than usual. It has been written, deleted, rewritten a few times. The book was poor. I disliked it on a number of levels: starting with the macro, I think the genre of “memoir” can do without half-life scratches from […]

EMBASSY, Richard Bell, in Venice 2019
art reasons to be cheerful Writing

Bell’s Biennale

Caroline Gardam

There are a lot of lovely pictures to accompany my article about Richard Bell’s EMBASSY2019 in Venice.  Like this one.