Daru Island PNG and Keswick Island Queensland at two ends of the Queensland Trough -Sale of Keswick to Chinese interests clearly detrimental to national security

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 

The Daily Mail reported:

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 the Great Barrier Reef for about $20million in 2019 on a 99-year lease, but now residents say the subtropical paradise is more like Wuhan than the Whitsundays.

Locals claim the wealthy Chinese developers are trying to stop Australians from setting foot on the island. 

The Beijing-backed firm has banned boats from accessing the public ramp, shut down the air strip, and attempted to stop visitors from using the beach - and locals say it's being kept exclusively for rich Chinese tourists.

The Google Earth image above illustrates Keswick Island's location, in relation to the Queensland Through .The Through is illustrated in the map above by the deep blue formation in the sea which stretches close to Daru Island in PNG.


Last week China's Ministry of Commerce announced that Fujian Zhonghong Fishery Company had signed a memorandum of understanding with the Papua New Guinea Government to build a $204 million "comprehensive multi-functional fishery industrial park" on the island of Daru under its Belt and Road Initiative.

The gravity images below illustrate how deep the trough, Keswick Island and the areas around it are. Areas marked red, orange and yellow denote the Queensland land mass and indicate higher gravity, while the blue and green areas indicate the Coral Sea, and other bodies of water were gravity readings are lower.

The black areas in tis map suggest areas that are so deep that data could not be recorded.

That the Queensland Government approved of the sale of Keswick Island to Chinese interest despite its strategic importance is a matter that demands explanation.

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