Depending on what they spend, sponsors get proportional advertising with their name, business logo and photograph on the worldwide solar cells website.

In this way sponsors show that they or their business are active supporters of renewable energy and organic foods in the community.

For more info on this project visit www.sponsorasolarcell.com or to contact Dean Ervik email: sponsorasolarcell@ecoworld.com.au

The bird had to be euthanased. Further investigation with EPA confirmed that the man did hold a licence to kill cockatoos. Margaret was horrified, “How can a

government department condone and licence this? There’s no policing of it and no process to ensure that it’s done humanely.”

Donna Anthony of Wildlife Volunteers said,“It’s just sad – on one hand you have wildlife carers spending so much time and money on caring for injured and orphaned wildlife, usually the result of human impact in some shape or form. On the other hand you have an unpoliced licence allowing people to kill.”

Further discussions will be held with EPA regarding these licences. We’ll update you with the outcome.

SUNSHINE COAST COUNCIL has completed its Master Plan for the Precinct but has left off the plan a key community resource – the 4km walkway from the township to Gardners Falls. There was also concern over a request to Council by the Maleny Golf Club for $450,000 to start its golf course.

The meeting at the RSL Hall was the first opportunity in more than two years that the public has had to discuss Council’s plans for the Precinct.

One of the five Precinct stakeholders, the Green Hills Fund, called the meeting, and its new president, Steven Lang, gave a detailed slide show presentation of the site components, the importance of species connectivity throughout the Blackall Range, and Council’s proposed schedule of development.

It is this schedule which concerned people at the meeting. Questions were asked of the three Council representatives present – Councillor Jenny McKay, Council’s director of the Precinct project, Alan ‘Fox’ Rogers and Council’s head of environmental policy, Steve Skull.

It was pointed out that feedback from the previous Council’s community consultation in 2007 had come down most strongly in favour of a walkway along the Obi Obi Creek from the Maleny township to Gardners Falls.

Peter Stevens, president of Lake Baroon Catchment Care said the walkway was absolutely vital to give the entire community the chance to connect with the Precinct after ten long years of planning.

Peter Rogers from Hinterland Tourism endorsed the view that a walkway would enhance the increasing reputation of the Range as a place for walking trails.

For example, Mary Cairncross Reserve receives 500,000 visitors a year confirming that visitors come here for the area’s environmental values.

Council plans to spend $4 million dollars over the next four years to kickstart development of the Precinct, but the first stages of the Master Plan do not include the walkway.

At the meeting Alan ‘Fox’ Rogers acknowledged that the Golf Club was seeking $450,000 to carve out its first nine holes, but said no decision had been taken by Council.

“If this funding is seriously being considered in the first few years of development then it goes against the intent of resident wishes as indicated by the consultation process three years ago,” Mr Lang told the Hinterland times. “It confirms that he who shouts loudest wins the prize.”

“The proposed walkway/cycleway to Gardeners Falls is how our children and grandchildren will get to Gardeners Falls. It gives ownership of the Precinct to the community. It is something everyone will use, regardless of which club or society they belong to. It is the one feature everyone can agree on. It is the priority.

“Don’t get me wrong. It’s not that Green Hills opposes a golf course on the precinct. We have formally signed off on a Master Plan which includes one, recognising the compromise as a win for all of Maleny. But we did so believing Council would require potential lease holders to provide their own funding, leaving Council to concentrate on the infrastructure the Maleny community so clearly declared it wanted.”

Several residents expressed concern that while stakeholder groups had to prepare commercial business plans before they became leaseholders of Precinct land, Mr Rogers could not guarantee that residents would get to see those plans.

Given that the estimated cost of the Precinct Master Plan over the next 20 years is close to $75 million, one suggestion from the floor was that Maleny land and homeowners might have a levy attached to their annual rates to speed up the process.

This was immediately rejected by another speaker who said she did not want her rates going towards the funding of a golf course.

Councillor Jenny McKay said she and her officers had heard the concerns of the community and would ensure that they were reflected in the Precinct strategy report that will go to Council within six weeks.

“We have had nearly three years of consultation with key stakeholder groups, Council and consultants,” said Mr Lang. “It is important that the outcome now delivers the environmental aspirations clearly expressed by this community three years ago. “

For further information: www.greenhills.org.au

A humanist on thin ice
Science and the humanities, people and climate change

Tom Griffiths
Professor of History at ANU and an adjunct professor of climate research at the University of Copenhagen. His latest book is Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica (UNSW Press, 2007)

It was ice that delivered the scary sense of urgency that we now feel about global warming. The oldest Greenland cores go back to the last interglacial, about a hundred and twenty thousand years ago, whereas the deepest Antarctic cores currently retrieve eight hundred thousand years of climate history. In Antarctica, there is less precipitation and seasonality and more compression of the layers of ice; resolution is traded for time. In Greenland the layers are clearer, because of the greater annual accumulation of ice. And so the more discriminating Greenland cores are essential to calibrating the longer, more condensed Antarctic archive. The polar ice caps therefore combine beautifully to give us detailed long-term climate data.

… In Antarctica, in the 1990s, a long 400,000-year ice core was extracted from the middle of the ice sheet near the Soviet station, Vostok. The Vostok core, which charted four full cycles of glacial and interglacial periods, established that the carbon dioxide and methane concentration in the atmosphere had ‘moved in lockstep’ with the ice sheets and the temperature. It also revealed that present-day levels of these greenhouse gases are unprecedented during the past four hundred and twenty thousand years.

… So it was really only from the late 1980s, as abrupt climate change began to emerge from the ice record, that there was urgency and anxiety – and this coincides with the fast warming of the ’80s onwards. This was the same period in which ecological science abandoned the idea of the ‘balance of nature’ and accepted ‘disturbance’ as normal in ecosystems. It was the same period when ‘punctuated equilibrium’ – the idea of sudden change – re-entered debates in evolutionary science. Today, especially following the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen, we feel that we are responding to this crisis too slowly – and we are. Yet a clear sense of urgency among climate scientists is only twenty years old and a confident scientific consensus has been articulated only over the past decade. So the task of coming to terms with its social and political implications has barely begun.

… If a hundred years ago the defining Antarctic journey was the sledging expedition across the surface of the ice, and fifty years ago it was the tractor traverse that, with seismic soundings, measured the volume of the ice sheet, then the defining Antarctic journey of our own era goes straight down, with the help of a drill, from the top of the ice dome to the continental bedrock, a vertical journey back through time. And the ice core extracted enables us to see our civilisation in the context of hundreds of thousands of years of climate history. Right now, in Antarctica, the international race is on again – not for the South Pole, not for the first trans-Antarctic traverse, but for the first million-year ice core.

… ‘Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get,’ runs the old adage. But these days we hardly know what to expect. And what we expect depends less on statistics than on belief. The public debate about climate change is now not really about the science – even when it looks like it is. We are in the realm of competing ideologies and differing belief systems; we are engaged in politics. If you know your politics, it is easy to predict who will think what about the science. We need to wonder why, as Richard Hamblyn has observed, climate change may be the ‘first major environmental crisis in which experts appear more alarmed than the public’.

… Many previous scientific revolutions – the Copernican, the Darwinian, the discovery of deep time – have decentred and diminished the power and significance of humanity. By contrast, the scientific revolution of climate change reveals the cumulative, insidious, all-pervading power of people on Earth. This is not just a technical issue; it implicates and challenges our humanity.

… Australia is going to be at the frontier of climate change pain. As inhabitants of an arid continent in the grip of the El Niño Southern Oscillation, a land of drought and flooding rains, a place of escalating fatal bushfire, and with a small and embattled agricultural economy, Australians might have been expected to rush to sign Kyoto a decade ago and to have brought credible legislation for reducing carbon emissions to the Copenhagen summit. The growing Australian public rejection of climate change science may be merely another example of our southern isolationism. Or it may be further testimony to the power that American politics and culture have over Australian society. Or perhaps it is because, for two hundred years, the European colonisers of Australia have struggled to come to terms with the extreme climatic variability of the continent. Australia has a boom-and-bust ecology. Settlers have had to learn, slowly and reluctantly, that ‘drought’ is not aberrant but natural; they have struggled to understand aseasonal and non-annual climatic variation; they have had to accept a wilful nature that they cannot control or change. They are still learning. And now, suddenly, Australians are confronted by long-term, one-way climatic change for which they, in part, are held responsible. It challenges everything they have so far learned about their new land.

… Industrialisation has initiated a new geological era that historians like to call the Anthropocene, characterised by pervasive human influence on Earth processes. It is both awful and awe-inspiring that we are now crossing a threshold of geological eras. As a result of our own actions we may be leaving behind not just the Holocene, the past ten thousand years of relatively stable climate, but also the Pleistocene, the several-million-year period of cyclical ice ages that has seen the evolution of modern humans. We have collectively become a force in climate that is comparable to the astronomical causes of ice ages.

Monday morning in Mernda

Peter Mares
ABC Radio National presenter, author and adjunct research fellow at Swinburne University of Technology investigating issues of migration, borders and human movement.

As cities sprawl, infrastructure sags and politics stymies creative approaches to planning, public support is growing for a strategy that appears much easier to implement: rein in population growth. The thinking is appealing. Reducing the number of new residents will ease the pressure on transport, land, water and the environment. Fewer new people means less need for new housing on the suburban fringe. According to the rudimentary laws of supply and demand, this should also bring down prices and make housing more affordable. Such simple calculations fail to account for the effects of inflationary policies like negative gearing, a low capital gains tax, the privileged tax treatment of the family home and speculative land-banking by developers. But such complexities fade into the background against the allure of a simple population-based approach to our problems.

… Compared with other developed nations Australians are enthusiastic breeders, and this accounts for about a third of the country’s population growth. In 2008 Australia’s total fertility rate – the number of babies per woman was 1.97.

This is the highest recorded rate since 1977, and puts Australia ahead of some middle-income countries in the developing world like Brazil (1.83 babies per woman), Thailand (1.82) and Iran (1.78); substantially ahead of European nations like Spain (1.47), Greece (1.39), Italy (1.39) and Germany (1.3); and way ahead of rich Asian nations like Japan (1.26), Singapore (1.26) and Korea (1.22).

… In the long term, a fertility rate of 1.97 per cent would not, on its own, be enough to increase Australia’s population, were it not that, in the short term, we have got much better at postponing death. But no one lives forever, so barring an unlikely further sharp jump in fertility, natural growth alone would eventually lead to a stable or gently falling population.

This is why the population debate focuses on immigration, which accounts for the other two-thirds of Australia’s population growth. While there is no immediate, simple or direct relationship between reproductive choices and the introduction or removal of baby bonuses (or paid maternity leave, family allowances or tax breaks), the causal link between government-controlled migration levels and population increase appears obvious. The federal government need only pull the right policy lever and migration, and population growth, will slow.

… Successful in avoiding recession and in stoking the resources boom, Australia is drawing workers from around the world at a rapid rate. This is the ultimate irony – the population growth that ‘threatens our way of life’ is accelerated by the very prosperity that underpins it. The problem is not so much the escalation of our numbers but the escalation of our wants. Growing up in a house with only one bathroom did not mean my childhood was deprived. My parents were not unhappy because they lacked an ensuite and a walk-in robe. The average floor area of new homes increased by 40 per cent between the mid-1980s and the early 2000s, even though the average number of people per household fell sharply during the same period. Our homes are now the largest in the world, though the blocks they cover are no larger. Mernda, in the aptly named Plenty Valley, is just one of many sites of collision between our growing numbers and our ever inflating aspirations for ‘lifestyle without compromise’.

The greatest spoiler
Salvation in the cities

Brendan Gleeson
Professor of urban policy at Griffith University. His new book is Lifeboat Cities (UNSW Press)

Australia’s development history is, as the historian Geoffrey Bolton describes it, a tale of spoils and spoilers. White settlers unleashed a rough-handed growth model that saw the land as an enemy to be vanquished. Its original owners were not more than troublesome fauna.

… The population boosters dominating the Big Australia debate have assumed the mantle of realism. Their heralds are the business lobbies, sensible politicians and the experts paid to cherish their perspective with misty-eyed sincerity. Contrary views are forborne with an air of patient superiority. Whatever the arguments, the realists say, we are heading inevitably towards a bigger population. The debate, in their eyes, is merely a wash cycle, helping us to spruce up for a newer, larger Australia. And what of climate change, resource insecurity and the possibility of political reaction? To quote the cultural critic Terry Eagleton, these realists have clearly not been reading the newspapers.

In this most uncertain of worlds, a Western civilisation deprived of the certainties of ideology, faith and human identity, there is one thing we can be sure of: our species is already in transit to what the scientist James Lovelock calls ‘The Next World’. It will be a world dominated by a global climate shift that we cannot yet describe fully, but which is inevitable and approaching fast.

… According to James Hansen, the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies: ‘We have to stabilise emissions of carbon dioxide within a decade…we cannot wait for new technologies like capturing emissions from burning coal. We have to act with what we have.’

That was four years ago. For his part, James Lovelock sees humanity, in this century, battered to the point of near extinction and, at best, re-emerging from the crises as a changed and mortified species. He thinks a temperature rise of three or four degrees is unavoidable and will reduce the liveable surface to a few ‘lifeboat’ regions, now the cooler extremes of the Earth. Australia is not on his lifeboat register.

If we have just a few years to prevent the worst and prepare for what lies ahead, there is little point in considering the many palliative measures that bog down the climate and population debates. Until growth is rethought and reframed there will be no politics to support systemic climate response. In 2007 the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon, pleaded: ‘I need a political answer. This is an emergency and for emergency situations we need emergency action.’ After Copenhagen, I think he’s still waiting for his answer.

… Taking to the lifeboats means abandoning the ship of fools that was the spoiler growth model. We will have to end the development game and all its entropic speculation and self-interest. An energised common purpose will be needed to bring us through the crisis. We must think about how to manage ourselves on a long voyage to uncertain shores. Rural and regional Australia will not be abandoned, but its fortunes will come largely in the wake of our cities.

… A challenge will be to define and practise what Lovelock describes as the ‘ethics of a lifeboat world’. These are ‘wholly different from those of the cosy self-indulgence of the latter part of the twentieth-century’.

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HINTERLAND TIMES

The Maleny IGA through its Community Chest supports 134 groups with a combined membership of 6,352.

Thank you Maleny Supa IGA! A quick glance at the website shows Barung Landcare right up there with Maleny Hospital in terms of membership support, which is quite an achievement  for a landcare group. We received more than $6000 last year from the Community Chest.

The locals clearly do value Barung’s work in helping us all to conserve and enhance our wonderful natural resources.

Another large number concerns the acacias, or wattles. September is officially spring and wattle time but we are already enjoying their pale yellow or gold flowers. There are 950 currently recognised Australian acacias, a very large number. Not all of course are suited to our climate, but some certainly are and they come in various sizes. Acacias are fast growing, useful pioneers, relatively short-lived although longevity varies with species. Some can be weedy when planted outside their own areas and two of these are Cootamundra wattle, Acacia baileyana, and the Mt. Morgan wattle, Acacia podalyriifolia. The latter, a popular and hardy shrub used in roadside plantings, will spread its seed into open forest edges.

Continuing to look at numbers, Barung is presently carrying about 132 different species of plants native to the vegetation types of our region. There is absolutely no excuse for not growing a diverse forest! Each chosen species will provide shelter and /or food for an unknown and possibly uncountable number of insects and other invertebrates whose identity is also frequently unknown. All are important, whether they provide pollination
services, return carbon to the soil or perform any other of the myriad tasks which  contribute to a healthy, diverse environment. Their number is very, very large.

BARUNG NATIVE PLANT NURSERY
Nursery opening times: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday – 9am -3pm
Phone 5494 3151

ONCE UPON A TIME … not too long ago, it was considered good practice to remove useless scrub and brush from creek banks and replace it with pasture. Not only did the scrub along the creek and river banks reduce the area that could be grazed, but the trees often fell into the creek and made snags … and that’s just messy!

So for over a hundred years, native vegetation was removed from the landscape and creeks were de-snagged of dead wood. The consequences should have been obvious in retrospect, but let’s not forget that the guys who undertook this herculean task, were often first generation settlers, new to the rhythms’ of this landscape and the monsoonal downpours that can turn bare hillsides into custard.

Massive erosion occurred across the landscape, crystal clear rocky creeks became silted  bogs, big rivers became creeks, native fish populations collapsed as resources and habitat  dwindled. Hills dried out as soils became shallower, floods increased as water moved across the land quicker and creeks dried up sooner as their catchments dried out.

These changes often happened subtlety over a few generations and the community memory of what has changed is often quickly lost.

Yes a riverbank that is now covered in grass is relatively stable. However, if the bank becomes undercut, the shallow roots of pasture grasses don’t stand a chance in holding the bank together and it will steadily collapse. Also once we introduce livestock into the creeks or even the nearby landscape, nutrients in the creek will also rapidly increase.

Add to this the balmy subtropical summers of south east Queensland and a lack of shade from the absence of trees and we have perfect conditions for a range of potentially toxic algae … and little else.

Planting trees on creek banks can help turn back the tide of ecological degradation. Yes there may be some initial erosion in the short term as we switch from pasture back to forest cover, but within five to ten years the roots of trees such as Figs (Ficus spp.) and Lillypilly’s (Syzygium spp.) will provide deep long term protection for creek banks. The shade that these trees provide cools the water and reduces algal blooms. The fallen trees, branches, leaves and fruit provide the habitat for native fish and other animals such as the platypus.

The water that flows through these forested creeks provides cleaner water for dams and for us!

A good example of creek bank rehabilitation is the Obi-Obi boardwalk in Maleny, twenty years ago this was an area full of weeds, erosion and rubbish. I was fortunate enough to be involved in the project from its very early stages and have witnessed the changes along this stretch of creek. I remember planting a Deciduous Fig (Ficus superb) on a steep collapsing bend (rather optimistically – I thought at the time) and can now go back and see a beautiful tree holding the creek bank firmly together. This area is a great testament to the community spirit of Maleny and our ability to heal the landscape when we work together.

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Well, who knows what the weather will be like when you are reading this, but at the end of July it looks like spring is well and truly upon us. Trees and shrubs are covered in new growth, the grass is starting to green up, birds are starting to collect nest material and down at our dam the cane toads are calling…

If this weather keeps up, it looks like spring is off to a very early start – a little too early perhaps. Regardless of your opinion about the climate change debate, if there is one certain thing about climate change, it’s that the climate does change. The weather doesn’t really care whether you do or do not believe in climate change (it’s rather presumptuous that we regard belief as even being a factor – but then again that’s humans for you!). The weather will do, what the weather will do – it’s simple.

The native ecosystems of the range are a text that can tell us about the variability of our climate, if only we can read them. It’s not just soil type that influences plant growth, climate is a major factor. For example, prolonged dry periods can lead to a drop in soil moisture and the water table. We have rainforest communities on the range, such as Kondalilla Falls National Park, Triunia National Park and the High Tor Conservation Park that are full of rare and unusual dry rainforest plants that have the ability to survive during dry periods. Decade after decade of wet weather could see these forests change to a forest type more reminiscent of Mary Cairncross; however these parks contain species that can tolerate periodic dry spells that might only occur a decade or even century apart.

Variation in climate has a direct effect on the dominance of certain individual plants and plant communities. Variation in climate effects the germination of plants and also the growth of both juvenile and mature species. During the last ice age 10,000 years ago the local climate was much drier and cooler. The fossil record suggests that there was less rainforest on the Range and the area was dominated by windswept grassland and open eucalypt forest. It is suggested that it was only in the more moist south facing gullies and slopes that the rainforests held on.

What does all of this have to with me, I hear you ask? Well not much really … other than give some thought to what you are planting in your revegetation patch. The rainforests of the Range are not a homogenous entity with the same old trees and shrubs, in every remnant. We should give thought to what we are planting and where, so that we maintain ecological integrity and establish vegetation that can survive the variability of our climate.

What better time to head out into our forests, parks and bushland to learn more about our plants and wildlife and at the same time just enjoy what nature has to offer us. It’s even good for our health! Joining a guided walk is a great way to meet people with similar interests and also to benefit from the knowledge of the guide.

Barung has been supporting the revegetation program at Russell Family Park in Montville and many of the trees and shrubs are now well established.

A guided walk through this area on Sunday 22nd is a good opportunity to have a look and gain an idea of both the identity and growth habit of a range of the species commonly used in our individual planting programs. Some less common species could well be there too. The park behind the shops is already becoming a more attractive and interesting place to visit.

Hopefully, many of our native plants will flower and fruit this year, providing both food for our wildlife and a good stock of seed from which to grow next season’s plants. It’s never guaranteed as rainfall patterns, biennial bearing and hungry critters all have an impact.

AS WITH so many smart and successful inventions, James and his father started small. Two years ago they bought a 44 gallon drum and a garbage bin and have ended up being able to produce friable charcoal using large quantities of green waste in a very short space of time.

Stan’s background is in earth sciences and his son is a chemical process engineer with a PhD and experience in the sugar industry. Stan is naturally proud of his son who he says has always been interested in anything with a sustainable green technology label.

James Joyce is still based in Mackay where he set up his own consulting business in process engineering, consulting on sugar, water recycling in coal mines in Australia, and designing and commissioning equipment overseas.

Montville Coffee is the generous sponsor of the 2010 photographic competition providing a first prize in the adult section of $1000. Second prize is a photography course and an accommodation package. There are also prizes for a children’s section of the competition.

From 21 -29 August a wonderful program of outdoor events and walks will showcase the stunning environment of the Sunshine Coast Hinterland. Here are some of the highlights.

The opening walk of the festival is a Saturday morning 10km ‘community care’ fundraising walk organised by Apex Maleny. Funds raised by those taking this scenic walk will go towards landcare and home care services on the Blackall Range. It starts and finishes at Tesch Park in Maleny.

Also on Saturday morning, the main street of Maleny will come alive with music, buskers, food tasting and novelty events. Visitors will be encouraged to walk the street and savour all that Maleny’s retail traders have to offer – from Colin James ice creams to Sweets on Maple home-made fudge, locally-made Maple 3 pasties and Top of the Range sausages.

More than 200 walkers will join this gourmet party after they complete the Hinterland Care Walk. It is supported by the Maleny Commerce and local businesses.

On Sunday there are four wonderfully invigorating walks that will take visitors through some of the most stimulating scenery of the hinterland.

At 8am you can walk in the shadow of Tibrogargan, and discover the spectacular geology beneath your feet in the ancient Glasshouse Mountains country.

This almost 6km, easy-to-medium grade walk, will take you two hours at a comfortable pace. The track highlights heath and open woodland communities of the GlassHouse Mountains. Trachyte is a type of volcanic rock, which form the Glasshouse Mountains. A short detour will lead to the Jack Ferris lookout where there are unique views of five of the Glasshouse Mountain peaks.

A more leisurely stroll is being offered through the Russell Family Park at Montville at 10am. Locals are helping restore rainforest here on several acres beside two, spring-fed billabongs. Diana O’Connor is the guide on this walk taking you through a magnificent bequest to the local community, Diana will welcome questions about this challenging plantings project.

At midday it will be Montville’s turn to entertain visitors up and down the main street with its own street party organised afternoon by local traders and chamber of commerce.

Across the Range in Maleny is the beautiful rainforest walk of Mary Cairncross Park, starting at 10am. The Friends of Mary Cairncross will surprise you with their detailed

knowledge of the rich flora and fauna within this magnificent rainforest remnant. The 1.7km walk is a leisurely stroll where the sights and sounds of this wonderland are never forgotten.

Sunday is a focus on the northern end of the Blackall Range. Mapleton’s famous three monthly market day starts at 7.30am featuring the astonishing range of home-grown products from olive oil, citrus fruits and palm wax candles to bromeliads, sandals, organic chocolate and Swiss brown mushrooms. There are bush poets in performance combined with a non-stop sausage sizzle.

Festival walkers can begin their Sunday at 8am with a 4-5 hour walk that takes in the Delicia Road conservation park or Linda Garrett Park, the Ubajee Walkers Camp and Gheerula Falls. You will pass through rainforest, a palm grove and tall wet eucalypt forest dominated by blackbutt, turpentine, brush box and flooded gum. Don’t forget to take your camera!

Throughout the following week are a host of vigorous walks and leisurely strolls including the private Dilkusha Nature Refuge on the Balmoral Ridge, a special bird walk with Burnie Collins and a children’s story-telling walk in Mary Cairncross Park.

For full calendar details of this action packed Festival of the Walks see: festivalofthewalks.com.au/events
Phone: 5478 6435

The Sunshine Coast Regional Council is a generous financial supporter of the 2010 Festival of the Walks