Month: July 2020
Dr Doug Quarry / Time for Queenslanders to take Covid-19 seriously again
Dr Doug Quarry / Time for Queenslanders to take Covid-19 seriously again
Local Sport / Come along to the one and only Port women’s soccer home game tonight!
Four local female football (soccer) players have been diligently training over the last six weeks to hone their skills and compete in the Cairns and District Football competition.
Arts & Events/ Open Air Entertainment Series coming to Port Douglas
Wonderland Entertainment is back with their ‘Wonderland Under The Stars’ program, delivering a socially-distanced event full of trademark magic and music to audiences under the tropical night sky.
Conversations / Author Camilla Noli
Today, DouglasNews.Network chats with Mossman born and raised Camilla Noli, an author with a knack for writing books that reflect current events. Her latest published novel (her third), The Plague Journal, is no exception. Described as a cross between World War Z and The Da Vinci Code, The Plague Journal is a pre-dystopian novel exploring human reactions to a devastating plague and its aftermath.
Local Sport / Port Douglas Basketball is back!
Port Douglas Basketball Club has re-started competition with a bang this week!
Douglas Shire Council / Review of Ordinary Meeting 28 July, 2020
Bottling facility on hold, we’re playing golf, cutting red tape in the Planning Scheme, and ditching single-use plastics…
Environment / Waterways ‘good’ despite record-breaking weather
Released today, the 2020 Wet Tropics Report Card assesses the health of nine river basins from the Daintree to the Herbert. It is produced annually by Wet Tropics Waterways as an initiative of the Reef 2050 Plan, an Australian and Queensland Government framework for protecting and managing water quality flowing to the Great Barrier Reef lagoon.
The report card analyses scientific monitoring data from many organisations and is reviewed by an independent scientific panel made up of individuals with a range of expertise.
Local Sport / Douglas United Dragons breathe fire at Monday night’s game
On Monday night the Douglas United Dragons played away against James Cook University.
Environment / They paved paradise to put up a parking lot
Local residents are questioning the legalities of Douglas Shire Council building a parking lot in a a wetland protection area in the Great Barrier Reef catchment area, extending Cowrie St into endangered littoral rainforest.
Environment / Dugong found dead, tethered to ocean floor near Mowbray River
A happy day fishing and adventuring with friends ended for young Abel Terry with a tragic find near Mowbray River on Sunday July 26, 2020.