60 Reasons to Protest: Reason #42 – Political Donations Most parties receive large sums of donations from corporations to help fund their election campaigns and day-to-day activities. In return, those corporate donors get access to politicians and directly influence their policy platforms. They sit with them at fancy “fundraising” luncheons, cash-for-access dinners, Read more
60 Reasons to Protest: Reason #43 – Aircraft noise impacts on wildlife We highly recommend to you the new ABC documentary, The Secret Lives of Our Urban Birds. Episode 2 features Brisbane including an interview with ornithologist Dr Dominique Potvin at UniSC who studies the impact of urban noise on songbirds. Did you Read more
60 Reasons to Protest: Reason #44 – Noise levies One of our 8 key demands has been to declare Brisbane Airport a leviable airport under the existing (!) Aircraft Noise Levy Act 1995 to impose and collect aircraft noise levies. These levies are to be distributed as compensation to all Brisbane residents Read more
60 Reasons to Protest: Reason #45 – Dirty 💩 Flight Paths The new flight paths were designed to be lower than they are at other airports. What happened? Airservices have confirmed in Senate Estimates that they have not only received thousands of complaints from people living across 226 suburbs (there are Read more
60 Reasons to Protest: Reason #46 – Flight path noise pollution’s impact on children Do you have children or grandchildren? Did you know: While children may not complain about aircraft noise, scientific research has confirmed that clinical effects and negative health impacts occur regardless of whether a person finds loud noise annoying. Read more
60 Reasons to Protest: Reason #47 – Misleading data & flawed engagement Both Airservices and BAC have argued that they have “consulted widely” in the lead-up to the 2020 launch of Brisbane’s new flight path architecture. Have you received any honest, easy-to-understand and accurate information? For example: Compare this with Airservices’ “Commitment Read more
60 Reasons to Protest: Reason #48 – Property Devaluations In 2013 Brisbane Airport Corporation paid for a study into “the potential impact of aircraft noise on Brisbane residential property prices in response to community concerns about the impact of flight paths and aircraft noise on property value.” The study found Read more
60 Reasons to Protest: Reason #49 – No Incentives for Reducing Aviation Noise Are you also able to tell a Jetstar plane from the rest of them? BFPCA has heard many complaints about a particular high-pitch, annoying sound emanating from the Airbus A320 family of aircraft. It’s the main one Jetstar Read more
60 Reasons to Protest: Reason #50 – 110 flights an hour Brisbane Airport’s aggressive growth trajectory is set to outstrip Sydney as Australia’s busiest airport and be on par with Hong Kong and Singapore. BAC aims for 50 million passengers by 2035 or sooner. That equates to 110 aircraft movements an hour. We Read more
60 Reasons to Protest: Reason #51 – Noise Sharing Related to today’s news media frenzy about Airservices proposing flight path change options is protest reason #51: Airservices rejecting the communtiy’s demands for actual net reductions and instead proposing (AND already adopting!) noise sharing as their preferred option. While Airservices keep Read more