60 Reasons to Protest: Reason #54 – Complaints to Airservices go nowhere Airservices Australia systematically stonewalls community members with legitimate complaints about aircraft noise. Community complaints manuals obtained by BFPCA through Freedom of Information requests show how Airservices staff are instructed to provide pre-scripted answers designed to quash complaints and prevent them from Read more
60 Reasons to Protest: Reason #55 – The limited scope of the PIR Not only are Airservices masters of “engagement theatre,” they also have made sure all the essential net noise reduction measures are excluded from scope. Why? “The long-term benefits of Brisbane’s parallel runway system will only be realised if Read more
60 Reasons to Protest: Reason #56 – Who wants to live in an Aerotropolis? Royal Schiphol Group and specifically BAC have long been guided by the vision of turning their host city into an “aerotropolis” – a concept originally proposed by Dr John Kasarda, president and CEO of Aerotropolis Business Read more
60 Reasons to Protest: Reason #57 – Sydney got what Brisbane wants Did you know Sydneysiders enjoy: Brisbanites do not enjoy any of this. Let’s change that, and make sure Brisbane is not treated by Catherine King MP like a second class city. Register for the BFPCA protest: Discuss this Read more
60 Reasons to Protest: Reason #58 – Aviation Noise is Unregulated Construction noise on a Sunday? Neighbours having a loud party after 10pm? Dog barking before 7am? Concerned about the adjacent road, highway, rail line? There are strict local and state government regulations for all sorts of noise pollution. Even Read more
60 Reasons to Protest: Reason #59 – Engagement Theatre It’s been now more than 1,000 days (1,005 to be precise) since the new flight path architecture launched and started to inflict misery on families and communities across 226 suburbs of Greater Brisbane who now find themselves stuck in BAC’s noise Read more
60 Reasons to Protest: Reason #60 – The removal of SODPROPS Today it’ll be 60 days until the first BFPCA protest. We’ll be posting a new reason to protest every day counting down to the 10th June 2023. This is a good refresher for all our new members and followers Read more
Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government, Hon. Catherine King MP has formally refused to meet with Brisbane Flight Path Community Alliance, abandoning communities suffering from unsustainable flight path noise. Following the election of the Albanese government, BFPCA wrote to Minister King in November 2022 requesting a meeting. Read more
On 20/12/2022, Airservices Australia provided a response to a question on notice taken in the 2022-23 Budget estimates October and November round (committee question number 240). The Courier Mail reported on this on 25 Jan 2023 in an article titled, “Flight path pain dives in post-COVID boom.” While BFPCA responded Read more
While Brisbane Airport has been BFPCA’s main focus since we started, more and more community members express their concerns about the negative impact from Archerfield Airport’s excessive noise pollution as well as its future growth and expansion aspirations. The Archerfield Airport Preliminary Draft Master Plan (2022-2042) was available for public Read more