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The financial viability of the government-subsided scheme in the world heritage-listed area is just one of its many unknowns
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The financial viability of the government-subsided scheme in the world heritage-listed area is just one of its many unknowns
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 "I thought very much the same as I do now. Society was facing some challenges and was on the brink of major calamity," he said. "And here was a place of amazing beauty. Remoteness. Away from it all. "I felt comfortable." Mr Berwick - who would go on to lead the Daintree Blockade in 1983 and serve as Douglas Shire Mayor for 16 years - bought land in 1971 with plans to return and build a life off-the-grid. It was never on his agenda to be a part of a movement towards hippie communes, although he would often hear of a place called Cedar Bay, north of Bloomfield.