YOU SAID IT! New ferry will demand more dredging
Letters and comments
Flick Boucher
Wouldn’t it be more sustainable to build a bridge that can open and close for boats and other vessels?
Rob Newman
Easy build a bridge over it, at it’s narrow section down river. Easy.
Nadia Marie
While the Daintree Ferry would require significant dredging to remain operational, it’s important to recognise that the ferry itself offers more than just a crossing — it creates an iconic, deliberate pause before entering one of the world’s most delicate ecosystems. Limiting crossing hours helps protect wildlife from vehicle collisions and naturally regulates visitor flow. On the other hand, a bridge could reduce the need for dredging and fuel use, improving access and safety. The question becomes whether a bridge could be designed to be equally iconic while maintaining the controlled access and environmental protection the ferry currently provides.
Brad Flash
No bridge, keep the ferry. The Daintree ferry is an icon. Bridge will damage too much of the mangroves.
Neil Jabs
Here we go again… cost cost cost - so much for dredging the GBR again. A bridge would eliminate ALL of these hidden ratepayers' costs. Look out for next years rate hike again. We are the absolute highest rates in north Qld and all thanks to the zealot selfish conservationists. DSC can’t afford this ferry now and certainly not in the future. A bridge funded by federal and state is the only solution.
Robin Williams
The whole thing has always been mad... a bridge is the go... like the power that only goes so far, totally nuts the whole show.
Rob Jovic
The amount of money that has gone into this is absolutely crazy, a bridge would be the most logical solution, only that this area is dominated by green Wokes, this issue needs to be taken out of their control.
Shire is back under surveillance
Geoffrey McLean
Do the right thing! Wear your seat belt. Don’t use your phone while driving. Don’t drink alcohol while driving. Don’t speed. And wear clothes, they don’t want to be shocked by your iddy biddy tiddy bits, they might laugh. Simple, do the right thing - don’t break the law then no problem. Otherwise cop fines $$s in the mail. It’s not rocket science!
Chris Percival
I'm going to stop wearing pants when I drive past. Those people reviewing the photos will have nightmares.
Tracey Kennedy
Is it true no drinking eating or smoking in your car, is that a new rule?
David Motbey
Good way to make people a bit more poorer!!! Fine them hundreds of dollars for irrelevant stuff!!! Go the police force!!!! Making governments rich since 1770.
Dingo pup loses fight for life
Annamarie Harriss
Shame on the organisation placing these traps! Dingoes are very vital to the ecosystem and don’t deserve to be treated this way... save the dingoes!
Jo Wood
Shame on you. Save those dingo and let them be, also you flamin' humans please stop feeding them, and I believe that Fraser Island should be for dingos habitat, no humans allowed. Shame on you destroying those Australian icons animals. Shame on you.
Andrea Wohlhuter
What a terrible medieval practice to have these kinds of traps out to catch wildlife. This should be outlawed, our wildlife, including dingos, should be protected.
Josh Peters
You idiots have no idea. Do you know what these bloody thing do to livestock, especially the babies?
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