Category: Opinion
Dr Doug Quarry / We watch and we learn as the US “opens up”
The US Federal response to COVID has been chaotic. Each state is responsible for its own COVID response.
Perspectives / RIP Transparency. Hello Secrecy.
A seemingly orchestrated move by Mayor Kerr to thwart Cr Abigail Noli’s attempt to receive information from the Mayor and CEO at Tuesday’s Douglas Shire Council Ordinary Council meeting was witnessed by up to 100 viewers who logged on through Facebook to watch the live-stream.
Crispin Hull / Decisions and Experts
President Donald Trump’s assertion this week that the US having the world’s most COVID-19 cases should be seen as a “badge of honour” epitomised all the failings of irrational, autocratic decision-making.
Perspectives / If everyone jumped off a bridge, would you?
The debate continues over bridges and amendments to the town plan, purchasing of lap pools and grooming of beaches…
Perspectives / Professor warns not to endanger World Heritage area
The environmental and economic impacts of such an unnecessary project are not worth gambling within the new COVID-19 world!
Perspectives / Is Tourism Port Douglas Daintree’s funding under threat?
Natalie Johnson, a twenty-five-year veteran of the tourism industry and current tourism business owner, explores her growing concern in a three-part series, for the future of independent local tourism organisation, Tourism Port Douglas Daintree (TPDD).
Dr Doug Quarry / Rockhampton Covid-19 case-containing the virus
Rockhampton has not had a COVID case for about seven weeks, and perhaps has let its guard down.
Dr Doug Quarry / Is the destruction of the Courthouse Hotel mango trees a justified health hazard?
Like many other Douglas residents, I was horrified to witness the destruction of the magnificent mango trees in and around the Court House Hotel early on Monday 18 May.
Crispin Hull / Considering our post COVID-19 wishlist
People, quite reasonably are drafting wishlists for a post-COVID world – such as action on climate, energy, tax, water, industrial relations and so on – but that risks a return to politics as usual. Rather we should be asking: what sort of economy do we want; what is the economy for; what role should government play and who should decide how government acts?
Crispin Hull / Alarm bells for ABC funding
This week’s report on ABC funding should alarm Australians.
The death by a thousand cuts of the ABC and the slow strangulation of Medicare has become woven into in Liberal Party’s DNA since John Howard turned Robert Menzies’ broad church of a liberal-conservative Liberal Party into a purely conservative one by shutting out almost everyone left of the nave.