Category: Politics

MEDIA RELEASE BY DOUGLAS SHIRE COUNCIL Replacing the ferry service with a bridge over the Daintree River has been debated passionately in the community for…

Douglas Shire Council holds secret meeting to decide upon public consultation. Before Douglas Shire Council at tomorrow’s Ordinary Meeting is a recommendation for another round of public consultation concerning whether a bridge should replace the Daintree River ferry.

A plea to his own government for stronger action on climate change by Warren Entsch, Federal Member for Leichardt and Special Envoy to the Reef, has won the applause of the Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS).

After the release of the Agenda for Tuesday’s Ordinary Council Meeting late yesterday, Councillors have only one full working day to consider the following proposals..

If Trump wins the Presidential election in November, it means only one of two things: that either he has succeeded in cheating at the election by stymying mail voting and undermining the election’s legitimacy, or that the American people have genuinely re-elected him despite his dangerously erratic foreign-policy forays; his destructive trade policies; his employment of toadies and cronies and his supplicancy to autocrats and dictators. Indeed, they would have endorsed those actions. Either way, the US would be neither a worthwhile ally nor a worthy one.

Mayor Kerr supported giving a rate discount and waiving the development fees for the Crystalbrook Collection at a Special Council Meeting on August 10, 2020.
Kerr is on record voting against a freeze on rates and fees for struggling Douglas Shire residents, businesses and ratepayers, proposed by Councillors Zammataro and Noli. However, he supports giving financial relief to one of the world’s richest men….

“After Monday’s Special Council Meeting, Douglas Shire Council released a statement regarding the Council decision to sell Lot 83, Cape Tribulation Road. The statement contains misleading information.”

Mayor Kerr – it must feel great to just “know” things! I listened to the Special Council Meeting yesterday regarding Lot 83. Mayor Kerr repeatedly…

Bottling facility on hold, we’re playing golf, cutting red tape in the Planning Scheme, and ditching single-use plastics…

The Cassowary Coast Regional Council (CCRC) has kept the 2020 / 2021 rate increase to a modest 1.23% while forecasting a small operating surplus compared to the Douglas Shire Council’s (DSC) rate increase of 2.2% and projected operating deficit of $3.7 million.