Cape York Weekly FREE – #249 | Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Editor Lyndon Keane: 0419 891 666 | editor@capeyorkweekly.com.au
Resilient Wujal Wujal cleans up at awards
INSIDE TODAY
‘DEEP INSTINCT’ TAKES ROOT Page 6
CHARACTERS COME TO LIFE Page 11
The Yellow Company director Jo Killick, Wujal Wujal Aboriginal Shire Council Mayor Alister Gibson, aged care co-ordinator Gina Manai and The Yellow Company managing director Ben Norling celebrate the community’s success at the Queensland Resilient Australia Awards on 28 August. Photo: Queensland Reconstruction Authority.
The strength of Wujal Wujal residents to bounce back after the devastation of the 2023 flood event that decimated their community was recognised at the 2025 Queensland Resilient Australia Awards in Brisbane on 28 August. Read the story on Page 3.
BITUMEN BOUND PAIR PASS HALFWAY POINT OF 830KM RUN
By the time you read this, Weipa’s David Tuckwood and Michael Collins will have left the bulldust holes and corrugations of the PDR behind them as they hit the bitumen and aim their compass at Cairns. Find out where the boys are on Page 7.
AUSTRALIA DAY CELEBRATIONS Pages 8 & 9 SUN SETS ON BIG SEASON Page 21
CAR WASH TO HELP SWIMMER Page 23
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