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Native Nursery, the Outriggers Club, Coochiemudlo Island
Coastcare, the Coochie Art Group Inc and the Coochiemudlo Islands
Pirates Club (see attachments 14 a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i). The Wildlife
Preservation Society of Queensland which visits the Island often has
also offered its support (see attachment 14 j). The Coochiemudlo
Island Progress Association, in its letter of support, cites the results
of a survey conducted on the island in October 2016: In response to
a question on the role of the Progress Association, 109 out of 149
respondents volunteered a reference to the Emerald Fringe (see
attachment 14b).

Redland City Council has also acknowledged the significance of the
Emerald Fringe. In February 2017 the Council accepted submissions
from island residents and groups requesting that the entire Emerald
Fringe be zoned conservation, rather than conservation and
open space, in its latest City Plan submission to the state
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government. The Council also commissioned a Report Into
Integrated Weed Management on the island, indicative of both
Council and community desire to care for the island’s natural
environment.

Coochiemudlo Island has always attracted a wide and diverse range
of artists. Nobel Prize winning writer Alice Munro spent time on the
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island in the 1980s, novelist Peter Corris lived here and the

44 Redland City Plan, Submission Report, 28 February 2017, p.127.
45 J. Stewart ‘Writers of Coochiemudlo’, in Chronicles of Coochiemudlo, p.
112
46 P. Corris ‘The Godfather: Peter Corris on all his houses’, The Newtown
Review of Books, 25 Jan 2013,