Jen Kettleton-Butler is on “a postage stamp of island” trying to rescue an echidna she calls Eddie. Wind roars in her microphone and the camera she holds pans from a public toilet that is disappearing beneath waves to a thin strip of coastal forest that, too, is being reclaimed by the ocean. “This is weeks, if months, you know, at the most, before this is gone,” she tells her social media followers. It is the first Saturday in May and Kettleton-Butler is standing on an uninhabited strip of Bribie Island a few dozen metres wide that has been dissected to the north and south by two successive breakthroughs – one by the wind and waves associated with ex-Tropical Cyclone Seth in 2022 and the other by Alfred in March.