Did you know that Airservices Australia operates a dedicated mental health and suicide counselling hotline specifically for residents affected by aircraft noise?
Tha sobering fact tells you everything you need to know about the lives of residents who live under Brisbane’s flight paths.
As Professor Marcus Foth, Chair of the Brisbane Flight Path Community Alliance (BFPCA), reports in our latest edition, the skies over our city are suffering from an “abdication” of regulatory oversight.
While big media outlets are distracted by global narratives, residents in the Teneriffe-New Farm-Newstead precinct are bearing the brunt of sleep disturbance, cardiovascular risks, and property devaluations.
The culprit is a governance model that Foth argues has been “entirely captured by the aviation industry”.
He points out that Airservices Australia is not actually a regulator, but a government-owned corporation whose primary mission is to serve the industry seeking capacity and growth.
The Brisbane Airport 2026 Master Plan proposes a staggering 1,600 flights a day and no curfew for freight carriers.
“Investigative journalists seem rarer than a SODPROPS flight on a wet runway,” Foth observes, challenging residents to interrogating the systems of power that have left them with toxic pollution from 50-year-old planes and “engagement theatre” instead of genuine consultation.
For the deep dive into the BFPCA’s evidence-based reports and the roadmap to rejecting the 2026 Master Plan, pick up the March edition of the Village Voice.
