Category: Daintree News
Daintree River Ferry Dredging Under Way
Douglas Shire Council advises that dredging works to the Daintree River Ferry channel is occurring daily from 9.00pm to the early morning every day until Wednesday 31 March, 2021.
Daintree Ferry Priority Lane Will Open For Easter Holidays
The Daintree Ferry priority lane will re-open from Monday 5 April to make it easier for Douglas locals to cross the river during the upcoming Easter holidays.
Opinion / Daintree’s Iconic Ecosystem Is Under Threat
THE World Heritage Listed Wet Tropics of Queensland are one of 19 Australian iconic ecosystems under threat. Dangers to the ecosystem include “habitat fragmentation, fringe livestock grazing, increased urbanisation, more frequent and severe fires and invasive plants and animals. Climate change poses perhaps the greatest threat overall…”
OPINION / Our Threatened Littoral Forests, and Why They are so Important
COUNCIL’S recent actions in permitting quad bike and ATV traffic on Wonga Beach, and the inevitable impacts it will have on our important (and World…
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…
DAINTREE RIVER FERRY / Council announces tender for interim contract
Douglas Shire Council has advised that they will be proceeding with a tender for an interim ferry service after negotiations with the existing service provider…
DAINTREE FERRY / Council Confuses Community
DOUGLASNEWS.NETWORK After making a decision that seemed to confuse most, Council has issued a media release seeking to clarify its intentions about the future of…
NEWSROOM / Daintree Ferry Proposal to Proceed
Last week Douglas Shire Councillors considered the results of its recent survey about options for crossing the Daintree. The survey results confirm the views of DSSG members that a bridge is neither required nor desired and that this community prefers conservation over development. Two thirds of those surveyed said they preferred a two ferry system.
DOUGLAS SHIRE COUNCIL / Mayor criticised by Councillors as Council resolution disobeyed
In unison, all four Councillors criticised aspects of the Daintree ferry debacle that Mayor Kerr has brought about. At Douglas Shire Council’s Ordinary Meeting held on December 15, 2020, the two-ferry or bridge question should have been finalised. It appears, however, that the Mayor is still trying to avoid having the contract signed, by instigating a questionable last minute change to the meeting recommendation, and further, not advising all fellow Councillors of his intention to do so.
DOUGLAS SHIRE COUNCIL / Agenda Review
Douglas Shire Council will hold the last Ordinary Council meeting for the year on Tuesday, 15 December 2020, at 10am, and there are quite a few items of community interest on the agenda….