Development Applications are assessed against the Queensland Government's Planning Act and the Moreton Bay City Council's Planning Scheme. If they meet the requirements stipulated in those planning instruments, no amount of letter writing, challenging experts, emotional pleading, or public criticism will have any impact on the outcome. In fact, doing those things can actually be counter-productive, damaging our credibility and our relationships with key decision makers. 

If we want to improve the environmenal outcomes from DAs, we have to get smarter and be more strategic. We have to hire professional experts in subjects like planning, ecology, and bushfire who have good reputations in the environment court and can pull the right levers to get a better outcome for nature on Bribie Island. This will cost money, so we also have to get better at fundraising for these kinds of campaign, learning from other environmental groups in our region who already do this.