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 going, the ‘gang of ignorance’ voted it down, but they were delayed two weeks, and at least, in that window before Christmas, we had some great professional opinion.

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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, […]

  New year 2008. I time for looking back, and a time for looking forward.
In a changing world, milestones flash past the window with barely a moment’s thought. At the start of a new year, here a moment is taken in thought, to look back, and look ahead into 2008.

When Captain Cook went aground off Douglas Shire, naming the nearest headland ‘Tribulation’, and its neighboring mountain, ‘Sorrow’, little did he know how much sorrow and tribulation he would end up bestowing on the local Yalanji.
Unlike the Macassan’s who had traded, lived and shared their lives with the northern indigenous communities for hundreds of […]

There was time, in the 60’s and 70’s, when the dental lobbyists could spin their tales of dental demise, along with “side effects? what side effects?” ….with only tiny majority of population having access to the other side of the story on fluoridation. Then the net came along, laying out research outcome, ontop […]

The visit of Deputy Premiere Paul Lucas on November 30, raises more questions than it answers about the iconic legislation, coming Douglas Shire’s way, and, the legislation is coming our way….in one form or another or according to Paul. Paul was visting teh area to gather our community leaders views, for which we thank him.
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 The Sugar Wharf opens on the eve of the federal elaction.  Douglas and Palm Cove vote 52% Liberal. Read about the local election results and see photos of the cocktail wharf opening by clicking on this heading.