Campaigning

Environmental advocacy

Kathleen McArthur was an innovative advocate for the environment, and her strong leadership in many campaigns led to significant success in the protection of vulnerable areas, notably Cooloola, the Pumicestone Passage and coastal dunes.

The inestimable value of the work by volunteers in such campaigns was fully appreciated by Kathleen, and acknowledged in a 1992 Lunch Hour Theatre script Where has all the country gone?

© WPSQ, Sunshine Coast & Hinterland Inc

In this part

Cooloola, the Pumicestone Passage, our beaches, and volunteering.

  • Cooloola

    From the 1960s into the 1970s the battle to preserve Cooloola as a national park was waged by WPSQ and other…

    5 chapters · 10 min read
  • The Pumicestone Passage

    The campaign to protect the Pumicestone Passage, a complex marine habitat and Ramsar wetland with tidal…

    5 chapters · 12 min read
  • Beach protection

    The sloping sands and adapted vegetation of coastal dunes are natural buffers between land and the force of…

    5 chapters · 16 min read
  • Volunteering

    Lunch Hour Theatre Script Where has all the country gone? June 1992

    3 min read