Newsport Print edition bites into the big issues

This week’s FREE Newsport Daily Print Edition takes a big bite into the debate raging about the Crocodile Control and Conservation Bill which is looking to be dead-in-the-water, with our local highly acclaimed experts giving their take on the proposed measures.

We put crocodile conservationist and Daintree River tour guide David White head-to-head with MP Shane Knuth on the issue, their opinions playing out in our pages in the edition out on the streets today.

The controversy doesn’t stop there for Newsport readers, the latest data on Great Barrier Reef coral bleaching sure to stir up different sides of the story, some science and some claiming it is all “scaremongering” while it is much the same response to the Wet Tropics Waterway Health Report Card.

A total $88 million is being spent across the Cook electorate to prepare communities better for disasters and we have the details of where and how that money will be spent.

And there’s widespread frustration over bus fares, with Douglas Shire residents fed up with $50 transport fares while most of Queensland gets 50c public transport fares.

But it is not all serious in this week’s edition, with lots of colour and fantastic feedback from Taste Port Douglas running across last weekend and a preview of the Cairns Super Carnival horse racing jumping into action from this weekend.