Archive for January, 2008

• DOUGLAS’s BITTER SWEET AUSTRALIA DAY

  Monday, January 28th, 2008

  On the 26th January of 2008, the Douglas Shire celebrated the last Australia Day as its own small community. From next year, there will be no longer be a Douglas citizen of the year.

• Police Called In Douglas’s Day of the Long Knives.

  Saturday, January 19th, 2008

  In the extraordinary last daze of the Douglas Shire’s Gang of 4, the Police were called as protesters tried to block the appalling revenge politics of Douglas’s Gang of Four. In Douglas’s last meeting before ‘caretaker mode’, the knives were well and truly out. “If we are going […]

• “ICONIC” goes pear shaped over the Port Police Station.

  Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

  Hi and welcome to a site looking at the issues around the Cairns election 2008. I’m Rod Davis, hi. Douglas has repeatedly voted 4 to 3 to bury the input of professionals and planners into its Icon legislation. No sooner had my last successful motion to get legal and planning input […]

• GAME ON: 2008 Cairns Elections

  Sunday, January 13th, 2008

  GAME ON: it’s the 2008 Cairns Election, and may the campaign begin. This is the blog of candidate Rod Davis; 120 pages of policies and perspectives. March 15 sees the first election of the amalgamated Douglas and Cairns Council, and the hottest sideshow in the election will be fought over the jewel in the crown, […]