SOME say it’s hunger. Others say it’s fishers. Others say it’s LNG and others say it’s dredging.

But nobody knows definitively what it is that’s killing the wildlife in our harbour and along the eastern seaboard of Queensland.

It seems as though deaths of dugongs, turtles, dolphins and other animals are not only happening in Gladstone’s harbour.

There have been reports up and down the coast.

And the government has formed a scientific panel to come up with some answers.

A statement was released from the minister a day or so ago, which tells us virtually nothing.

It’s totally right for people to get upset about the report.

We need to know the answers and if there are difficulties that can be overcome, they need to be overcome now – not in a year or so when every bureaucrat in the land has had his or her say and stated an opinion.

It’s no use keeping the possible cause secret.

All that does is lay the blame with some members of the community who could well be innocent parties.

Transparency is the key. If we have some major problems, let the people know.

If the problem, as many seem to suggest, is because the seagrass beds have been decimated by silt from flooding earlier this year, let the people know.

There’s little anyone can do about that, but at least it removes blame from others.

The death of wildlife is a hot topic that stirs people’s emotions.

It’s not right that bureaucrats can allow reports such as this drag on and on so that people are left none the wiser, and the deaths just continue for no reason.

Let the people have as much information as possible.