Different sections of the community oppose the scheme for different reasons.
People are proud to live in such a place, and want to keep it intact and healthy.
At the same time, they are witness to its accelerating deterioration under the impacts of mass tourism, and rapid growth in residential population. Particularly awful developments are opposed, and opposed successfully, by conservation organisations and single-issue citizens' groups. The Goss Labor government in Queensland withdrew consent for this development shortly after it was elected in late 1989. Opposition has not diminished after approval, and all of the above projects are bogged down in financial and political difficulties, due in large part to the determination and diligence of these local groups. It has a high profile in the region and, if it can be stopped, will inspire and assist other local groups to take control of their own environmental agendas.