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• FROM POLITICS to SOLAR HYDROGEN demonstration

  Saturday, June 21st, 2008

  The 2008 amalgamation of most Queensland Councils ended Douglas Shire’s existence, and with it, most of its elected representation. Rod Davis has had to shift. But a shift that still had a broader community service role is where Rod Davis wanted to go. With an environmental interest, and a project managerial background, tinged with […]

• ICONIC LEGISLATION HITS PARLIAMENT

  Thursday, February 28th, 2008

  The Iconic legislation for Douglas and Noosa has been like a slippery, football…everyone is kicking it around, and no one can catch the ball. I’m going to take a mark, and catch the damn thing, as much as it’s far from perfect, it’s not a bad start, and in between long raves with Jason as […]

• THANKS, BUT NO THANKS, Jason and the ALP

  Monday, February 18th, 2008

  Rod’s mail box had an odd surprise in it last friday….a cheque. A campaign donation cheque,infact, from Jason OBrien, the State ALP member for our area.
  Dear Jason, thanks mate for your kind $150 campaign donation, I thankyou for your friendship. However, it’s thanks, but no thanks after my people […]

• THANKYOU FOR FEEDBACK

  Thursday, February 14th, 2008

  Thanks everyone for your encouragement.
  Here are some sample feedback comments, staight from the blog:
  “I will vote - and despite the fact that your confrontational and emotive - I will be voting for you - because your colourful character, eccentricity, creativity, intelligence, irreverence and ‘can-do’, get in there and parley attitude are the type of attributes […]

• DOUGLAS PUSHED FROM FRYING PAN TO FIRE

  Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

  Douglas faces the fire the moment the frying pan is emptied. I sit aghast, sidelined as the now third ( and second last) dysfunctional sitting of the Douglas’s attempts more retribution politics, like the last days of Hitler’s bunker, where the continued attack on the Councils most senior contract manager, David Carey continues, as though […]

• Douglas’s Tourism Levy Exported to Cairns

  Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

  The lead by Douglas in funding its tourism promotion through Council levies got some new traction in the amalgamated election debate today. In a friendly radio chat between council candidates Rod Davis and Kevin Byrne, through Radio Port Douglas’s Rodcast Breakfast, Rod raised the question of a tourism promotion levy being raised in Cairns, rather […]

• 9 QUESTIONS for UNITY’s Bill Phillips Turner and Kevin Byrne, Hi Guys.

  Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

  QUESTIONS FROM DOUGLAS TO the CAIRNS UNITY PARTY, Hi Guys…

  G’day and Hi to Bill Phillips Turner and Kevin Byrne, from Rod Davis in Port Douglas.
  Thanks guys for uploading some of your Unity policies, and please don’t be offended by the questions below, as hopefully some friendly local debate can benefit those we aim to serve […]

• TOURISM CRISIS…what crisis?

  Friday, February 1st, 2008

  Crisis? What Crisis? The ballroom that is Port Douglas’s tourism sector is seeing a lot of ball bearings rolled onto the dance floor.
  Its hardly news to the world, given the front page of today’s Courier Mail, and just about every front page of the Australian this week, that Michael no-longer-the King’s MFS, is in deep […]

• 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 […]