Category: Breaking News
NEWS IN 5 / Monday June 21, 2021
Enjoy Douglas Shire news-in-brief
Breaking / Douglas Shire Council Decides on the “Ferry-Bridge Fiasco”
❝I have no regrets in proceeding with to have finally brought this continuing ferry-bridge fiasco to the forefront of this community❞
Final Days for the Archibald Prize Exhibition at Cairns Art Gallery
Prestigious and controversial, the Archibald Prize is is Australia’s oldest and most respected award for portraiture and is currently showing at Cairns Art Gallery with less than a week before closing.
Former Bandidos Enforcer and Port Douglas Identity, Lee Undy, Meets His Maker
Former Port Douglas resident Lee Undy, 49, has been sentenced for the supply of cocaine.
Why is Douglas Shire Council tendering for a Daintree Ferry?
Douglas Shire Council has put out a tender for an interim Daintree River ferry service The interim service is potentially a five year contract Does…
NEWS IN 5 / Sunday February 7, 2021
CELEBRITY LANDSCAPER Gets The Gig Innovative luxury property developer, Chiodo, has announced the appointment of Jamie Durie OAM and his team at Durie Design, to…
DOUGLAS SHIRE / Rising Community Concern Over Proposed Development
DOUGLASNEWS.NETWORK A passionate community group launched in the Douglas Shire this week, with the intention of bringing greater awareness to their concerns over a proposed…
NEWS IN 5 / Friday January 29, 2021
SEARCH FOR MISSING FISHERMEN RESUMES / The search for three far northern men continues today after they failed to return from a fishing trip to…
AGRICULTURE / A Future in the Douglas Shire?
It’s no secret that cane is struggling and that land is going out of production into hobby farms or cattle grazing. For a variety of reasons, there are few options for crop diversification for agricultural land that could be implemented, or switched to, quickly at scale. But with each additional loss of cane production, overall viability becomes more threatened.
STINGERS / Blob or Weaponised Brain?
There is a common belief that certain creatures are insentient blobs, twitching unconsciously at the ends of the strings of their biological predispositions. We suspect insentience in many of the more primitive creatures, the liver fluke for instance, or slime mould, but the poster child for the “insentient blob” in the common understanding, are jellyfish.