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THIS weekend is the last opportunity for visitors and locals to enjoy the inspiring ephemeral art festival “Call of the Running Tide”. Environmental sculptures and multimedia pieces are featured along the Port Douglas coastline and at the Port Douglas Community Hall.

Enjoy our definitive guide to ‘What’s On’ in, and around, the Douglas Shire this weekend.Feature events include Roots in the Rainforest, Reef Rumble and Call of the Running Tide Art Festival.

The move by Australia to ditch the French-designed diesel-electric submarines in favour of nuclear-powered ones is an unspoken admission of eight years of bungling.

Three years were lost dithering about trying to decide what was the best way to go in in replacing the Collins Class submarines. Then in 2016 the Turnbull Government made the wrong decision.

Or more correctly, three related wrong decisions. The first was not to use nuclear propulsion. That led to the second decision which was to build from the ground up. And the third mad decision was to build the submarines in Australia.

Now five years has gone as we go back to drawing boards.

IN BRIEF / The latest news affecting the Douglas Shire

Enjoy our definitive guide to ‘What’s On’ in, and around, the Douglas Shire this weekend.Feature events include Roots in the Rainforest, Reef Rumble and Call of the Running Tide Art Festival.

This project is helping to reduce threats to rainforest species and ecological communities by improving priority areas through revegetation, weed management and habitat protection, and by finding solutions to cassowary deaths and injuries on roads. Terrain is working with community groups, traditional owners and government organisations on the project. This project is supported by Terrain NRM, through funding from the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program.

Newell Beach boat ramp will soon be an all-tide boating facility following the awarding of the $2.36 million construction contract to Queensland company Australian Marine and Civil.

Enjoy our definitive guide to ‘What’s On’ in, and around, the Douglas Shire this weekend.

“The chaplains are not qualified to give advice to children who are suffering psychological trauma. The Bible is not a textbook on adolescent psychology. Indeed, unqualified chaplains are more likely to do harm than good…
The chaplaincy program pays utterly unqualified people to spout mumbo jumbo to children – it is a form of child abuse…”

Douglas Shire Council has endorsed three-year Resource and Performance Agreements for the Reef-to-Reef and Triple-R Mountain bike event, Wonderland Spiegeltent and the Mossman Show.
Across the three events, Council’s investment totals $225,000, with a further $120,000 worth of in-kind support over three years.