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Today’s post from Lieutenant James Cook’s Journal 250 years ago.

Tuesday’s Special Council Meeting to adopt the 2020 / 2021 Schedule of Fees and Charges copped a curveball after Cr Zammataro moved an amendment to place a 12-month freeze on current Council fees and charges rather than pass a motion to adopt an average 2.2% (CPI) rise.

We’re celebrating one of the greatest series of Australian paintings of the 20th century, Sidney Nolan’s Ned Kelly series re-opening at the Cairns Art Gallery on 13 June 2020.

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.

Today’s post from Lieutenant James Cook’s Journal 250 years ago.

This overview is the first in a series researched by the DouglasNews.Network editorial team addressing electricity options for residents and businesses on the Daintree Coast. We will break down the issues surrounding the longstanding and controversial debate.

Today’s post from Lieutenant James Cook’s Journal 250 years ago. Today we are located off Cape Hillsborough…

A Special Meeting was held this morning Tuesday, 2 June 2020 to adopt Council’s Fees and Charges for 2020/2021….

250 years ago, Lieutenant James Cook sailed up our Queensland coast in his bark The HMB Endeavour.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s admission that “the Commonwealth has no line of sight” on vocational training spending and that “where targets do exist, they are aspirational. If not met, there are no consequences” applies equally to all spending on education at all levels by all levels of government.