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due to sand erosion, sea level rise and the flooding of turtle nests. At a time when
marine turtle populations will need to be increasingly resilient to environmental
changes, worldwide, it is clear that those of the Great Barrier Reef and its adjacent
waters have barely begun to recover from their historical over-exploitation.
Notes
1
See the export statistics published in
SCQ
, 1875-1900;
SSQ
, 1901-1902.
2
See the export statistics published in
SSQ
, 1916-1924.
3
See the Annual Reports of the Queensland Fish Board for that period.
4
The Rockhampton Bulletin
, 7 January 1872, cited in
Pugh's Almanac
, 1872;
SCQ
, 1870-
1900;
SSQ
, 1901-1902.
5
See the Papers of Isobel Bennett, Box 6 Folder 10, Manuscript Collection, NLA.
6
See the Commissioner of Police to Under-Secretary, Queensland Home Department,
Brisbane, 11 March 1925, Queensland Police Department, Commissioner's Office,
Miscellaneous correspondence and reports, PRV10729/1 Box 169, Correspondence and
reports - Inquiries re. turtles in Queensland, QSA.
7
See the Annual Reports of the Queensland Fish Board for that period.
8
SRS505/1 Box 520 Item 3625, QSA.
9
See the Reports of the Acting Superintendent, Palm Island Aboriginal Settlement,
'State of Receipts, Expenditure and Earnings of
Wanderlust
Turtle Fishing Crew,
SRS505/1 Box 520 Item 3625, QSA.
10
A. Mellor, Master, QGPV 'Melbidir', Thursday Island to Mr C. O'Leary, Director of
Native Affairs, Thursday Island, 22 December 1953, RSI5058/1 Item 1346, QSA.
11
F. A. McNeill, Curator in Invertebrates, Australian Museum, Sydney to Honorary
Secretary, GBRC, Brisbane, 3 March 1950, RSI920/1 Item 9, General correspondence
batches - General Tourist Bureau matters, QSA, pp1-4.
12
Director, QGTB, Brisbane to Under-Secretary, QDHM, Brisbane, 16 March 1950,
RSI920/1 Item 9, QSA.
13
In-letter Ref. L40.2373.11, Secretary, Queensland Office of the Commissioner for
Railways, Brisbane to Secretary, QDHM, Brisbane, 22 May 1940, PRV8340/1 Item 1,
QSA.
14
A. M. Lewis to QSPCA, 22 January 1944, cited in A. E. Cole, Director, QSPCA to
Secretary, QDHM, 28 January 1944, SRS5416/1 Box 10 Item 61, NP231, Bunker -
Heron Island, QSA.
15
A. E. Cole, Director, QSPCA to Secretary, QDHM, 28 January 1944, SRS5416/1 Box
10 Item 61, NP231, Bunker - Heron Island, QSA.
16
Under-Secretary, Treasury, Brisbane to Secretary, Queensland Land Administration
Board, Brisbane, 30 March 1944, SRS5416/1 Box 10 Item 61, NP231, Bunker - Heron
Island, QSA.
17
N. Monkman,
Ocean Oddities
, Film recording, Australian Educational Films, Canberra,
1933, Title No. 18188, ScreenSound Australia, National Screen and Sound Archive,
Canberra.
18
SRS189/1 Box 17 Item 73, Queensland Industry, Services, Views, People and Events;
Photographic Proofs and Negatives; Islands - Barrier Reef, QSA.
19
Order in Council
, 4 September 1962, RSI15058/1 Item 1386, General Correspondence,
Marine Produce - Turtle Fishing - General Admin. Only File No. 1, QSA; 'Extract:
Minutes Councillors' Conference, 1961', Ref. 9T/50, RSI15058/1 Item 1386, QSA.
20
In-letter Ref. 9T/50. Chairman, Badu Island Council to Deputy Director of Native
Affairs, Thursday Island, 30 September 1962, RSI15058/1 Item 1386, QSA; Memo
Ref. 23/11/1, Dr Bustard, Darnley Island, 11 January 1971, RSI15058/1 Item 1386,
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