Don't miss out on the headlines from Mackay. Followed categories will be added to My News. Some members of the Keswick Island Reclaim Aussie Rights group – the same group responsible for a barbecue ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Ballina. Followed categories will be added to My News. Just 32km from Mackay is the idyllic island of Keswick and it has just opened up new campsites. "It's a ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Mackay. Followed categories will be added to My News. Keswick Island is shedding its locked-down image after discussions with Mackay Isaac Tourism about a number ...

Dozens of boats have taken to north Queensland's waters in opposition to a private Chinese company's management of Keswick Island off the coast of Mackay. Originally a protest had been planned against ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Mackay. Followed categories will be added to My News. Traditionally an island escape heavily marketed to overseas visitors and tourists from southern states, ...

Chinese development group China Bloom, which secured a 99-year lease on the island in 2019, has closed access to Keswick Island beaches, set up fences to prevent access to national parkland and banned ...

The Chinese developer accused of banning Australians from an island in the Whitsundays has taken aim at locals labelling them 'anti-development'. China Bloom snapped up a portion of Keswick Island on ...

Residents of Keswick Island on the Great Barrier Reef have spent the year fighting with the island's foreign developer, and they say its latest alleged act has left them furious. The head lease to ...

Land-based access to sections of the national park have been “locked” or blocked with boulders; keep out signs have been erected along the foreshore. The airstrip is no longer accessible and, worst of ...

A Great Barrier Reef island owned by a friend of the British royal family is on the market for a price of up to $30 million. After achieving development approval with the Queensland government to turn ...

It comes after tensions started to ease on the island, which had previously been plagued with complaints about access issues for more than a year. Some members of the Keswick Island Reclaim Aussie ...