Category: Breaking News

Cairns Regional Council has not increased fees and charges this year to assist residents, businesses and ratepayers due to the financial impacts of COVID-19.

Local News Bites / Wednesday 24 June 2020

The Macrossan Street Garden Bed Enhancement project is well underway with several boat shaped garden beds in place filled with new plants.

Budding Picassos throughout the Douglas Shire have warmly embraced Belinda William’s IsoArt Escape online art project. Jayne chats with Belinda to find out more about the project.

After a long and difficult break, Mossman Gymnastics Club is head over heels to swing back into action for the rest of 2020. Stage 1 re-opening has just kicked off, with limited classes returning to the gym. A full-scale re-opening is planned forMonday 13th July, 2020.

After 51 COVID-free days, Beijing is experiencing China’s most significant outbreak of COVID-19 since February. The new outbreak has occurred despite rigorous testing, control, and quarantine measures. For this reason, this outbreak has worrying implications for the control of coronavirus globally

⟼ Daintree conservation block likely to be sold by Council
⟼ Council threatens legal action
⟼ Shire’s ecotourism reputation under threat

⟼ Will the Mossman Golf Course be forced to close?
⟼ Will Douglas Shire Council bail out a private enterprise?
⟼ How did a not-for-profit Community Club go so wrong?

We commemorate the anniversary of the 1992 landmark decision of the High Court of Australia overturning the legal fiction of terra nullius (a land belonging to no-one) at the time of colonisation.