Stream Stabilisation or Rehabilitation is a guide to good practice in stream stabilisation and rehabilitation of north-east Queensland coastal streams. The majority of existing stream management guidelines are not entirely suitable for that purpose. Many focus on approaches to streambank stabilisation that give scant regard to ecological or aesthetic objectives. Others provide little on the principles, procedures and methods essential to good practice. Many of the existing guides were developed for other environments, principally temperate North America and Europe. Until now, virtually nothing has been available for the quite different tropical stream systems, particularly those of north-east Queensland.