Year: 2020

With New Years celebrations cast in the shadow of a pandemic that changed the world forever, it’s entirely understandable that you might be feeling a little flat about partying ol’ school, or you might simply be locked out because you can’t get a ticket to Port Douglas’ shenanigans…so we’ve come up with a list of ways to welcome in new beginnings that are calm, reflective and kind to our temples…

To save the planet and feed the populace means a transformational change in the way we grow food and fibre. This article looks briefly at the big picture, the challenges and local opportunities.

While 2020 was undeniably not quite the year we all hoped for, let’s say sayonara and celebrate its closure with live music, great food, tropical cocktails or if it is more your style, some quiet reflection. These are our best New Year’s Eve celebrations to welcome in the long-awaited 2K21!

So the greatest sex show on Earth, for the smutty-minded and marine biologists at least, has come and gone. It was good to see some coral spawn, but … well…I guess I remember the good ol’ days. The spawn, unleashed, have ascended en masse to be concentrated into stinky pink slicks, so vast that they can be seen from space. Within these slicks is a seething soup of sex….

Breaking quarantine, social-distancing or mask-wearing laws are crimes in a class on their own.

In this edition, Dr Doug from International SOS shares the very latest insights on the development of COVID immunity and vaccine development:

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.

TALENTED Indigenous Musical Theatre Performer Lorinda May Merrypor from The Sapphire’s theatre show stopped by Mossman last week and spoke to Douglas Shire Council as part of her “Let’s Connect” tour.

It’s no secret that cane is struggling and that land is going out of production into hobby farms or cattle grazing. For a variety of reasons, there are few options for crop diversification for agricultural land that could be implemented, or switched to, quickly at scale. But with each additional loss of cane production, overall viability becomes more threatened.

Friday is the 100th anniversary of the Royal Assent to the UK Parliament’s Government of Ireland Act which partitioned the island of Ireland to provide two Parliaments, the Parliament of Southern Ireland and the Parliament of Northern Ireland.