Should a wetland home to endangered birds become $1.3bn worth of shops, high-rises and a marina?

A Queensland controversy has been building for eight years and is now in the hands of Tanya PlibersekGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe incoming tide is covering the mudflats and sandbanks at Toondah Harbour and creeping up the mangrove branches.Ospreys and sea eagles are fishing and a cloudless sky is framing Cassim Island - a bank of mangrove-covered sand - in a tranquil scene a watercolour painter would die for. Continue reading...