The dingoes of Port Douglas are back making headlines with debate raging over how to manage those impacting the urban area while trying to keep the much loved rainforest dingoes safe.

And while conservationist and dingo lovers continue calls on Douglas Shire Council to show proof of the more than 30 incident long list of formal complaints - including attacks on pets and stalking of people - which has kept them firm in following legislation in the approach to dingo management, it also is showing people have a bite far stronger than many of those native dog in the firing line.

Newsport Daily Print’s FREE edition, out on the streets from today, captures the debate, including claims by expert Luke Cooper that he holds the DNA secrets of the rainforest dingoes, and his vow to use it to “make people eat their words’’.

Also making news, Council may well be looking like a grinch, their move to a new look Christmas festival “killing off” Carols by Candlelight.

Beach sand replenishment works appear to have failed at Newell Beach, readers sharing their pictures of the already wrecked beach while adding sand used at that site appeared contaminated with plastics and metals.

And there are concerns being raised about a Mossman social housing project “ruining” the look of the best street in the town before the first concrete has been poured… residents and developers frustrated local council’s development guidelines are not applied to the project.

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