Kerry Outerbridge motored his powerboat through coral reef ringing the lush, tropical island and alighted upon white sand. Catamarans and jetskis lay strewn about the beach. Nothing but quiet emerged to greet him from the bungalows scattered among a grove of coconut trees. A plate of food sat on a kitchen table, mouldering. “It was as if everybody packed up and left overnight,” he says. Outerbridge last visited Brampton Island in 2022 and the abandoned resort has since deteriorated even more. But once it was one of the jewels in the crown of Australia’s tourism offerings; one of dozens of pristine island playgrounds dotted through the Great Barrier Reef . This week Tourism and Events Queensland launched a campaign to attract domestic tourists whose international winter travel plans have been iced by unrest abroad. The poster image for a slick minute-long campaign video is a famous love heart-shaped coral reef, about 115km north of Brampton.…