Friends of Lee Point

The debate over the Lee Point housing project isn’t just about a single masterplan—it’s about how planning should be done in Darwin for one of our most important natural assets.

This newsletter (No. 79) includes: Nature, 2CRU plant survey, BFTR – 2CRU offset, quiz, plants-fungi-wildlife.

This monthly newsletter (No. 78) includes: Seditious Intent, native plants, Gamba Grass, 2CRU offset failure, quiz, plants-fungi-wildlife.

This post contains information and findings from a plant identification walk in 2CRU. Plants were identified by John Brock; well-known author of “Native Plants of Northern Australia”.

This monthly newsletter (No. 77) includes: Seditious Intent, shorebirds, Senator’s Lee Pt visit and 2CRU offset failure, quiz, plants-fungi-wildlife.

This habitat survey shows regrowth areas and uncleared areas to be similar in understorey plants but differ in tree diameter. The habitat survey was undertaken by Friends of Lee Point in Sept 2026.

This habitat survey by Friends of Lee Point in Aug 2026 shows most of the Lee Point 2CRU offset to be monsoon forest.

This monthly newsletter (No. 76) includes: shorebirds festival, Lee Point housing, assault case, quiz, plants-fungi-wildlife.

Darwin security firm Neptune NT has paid an out-of-court settlement sum (for damages and legal costs) to Ms Laidlaw over an alleged assault at Lee Point in Apr 2024.

This monthly newsletter (No. 75) includes: planning matters, migratory shorebirds, government matters, quiz, plants-fungi-wildlife.