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INDUSTRY • BRIEFING

Sea Walls
Bland Cairns buildings and fences
came to life in May as part of the
Artists of the Ocean Sea Walls
program, promoting environmental
sustainability. A portrait of Henrietta
Marie, Aboriginal elder and activist
from the Gimuy Walubara Yindinji
mob, was the standout. She’s now
looking over the city from a huge wall
on the corner of Lake and Hartley
Streets.

Parklands Performances
After playing to packed shows in the
US and Europe, Australia’s favourite
brother and sister duo Angus & Julia
Stone rocked a sell-out show at the Henrietta Marie mural on the Cairns Corporate Tower
Munro Martin Parklands in Cairns Sport
in May. It was the highlight in a big ended a 20-year premiership drought
year for the venue, which also hosted Commonwealth Games in Cairns in the CDRL after beating Tully in
former Crowded House frontman and Cairns hosted the preliminary rounds the grand final. The icing on the cake
award-winning songwriter Neil Finn, of the Gold Coast Commonwealth was delivered by the Douglas United
folk rockers The Waifs, the Australian Games basketball event in April, with Dragons who trounced Mareeba to take
Ballet and the Queensland Symphony spectators treated to ball-handling out the FNQ First Division final. The
Orchestra. displays from the Australian Boomers, victories were celebrated with a street
the New Zealand Tall Blacks as well parade down Macrossan St.
World Eco Fashion as the Canadian and Nigerian teams.
Port Douglas became the epicentre of Those who couldn’t secure tickets Best ever Ironman
the growing environmentally-friendly soaked up all the Games action and Massive crowds and perfectly cool
fashion trend in November, staging festivities at a special live site on the weather helped the Ironman Cairns
Eco Fashion Week Australia. Local, Esplanade. 2018 competitors complete the
national and international designers course in record time. Braden Currie
showed off their creations to a global Reef Rally from New Zealand was the 2018
audience. As well as runway shows, In August and September, 200 cars men’s champion, completing the 3.8
the event featured community-based competed in both modern and classic kilometre swim, 180 kilometre cycle
activities such as clothes mending tarmac rallies in and around Cairns and 42.2 kilometre run in 7 hours, 54
workshops and an eco-market place as part of the inaugural Targa Great minutes and 58 seconds to smash Josh
with locally handmade goods. Barrier Reef. Racecourses included Amberger’s course record of 8 hours
the Gillies and Kuranda Ranges set and 2 minutes. Countrywoman Teresa
against the stunning backdrop of Wet Adam came home first in the women’s
Tropics Rainforest and the Coral Sea. division.
The event was hailed a major success
by organisers, drivers and motor sport
enthusiasts and will be returning in TropicNow.com.au Top 5
2019. These were the most read stories on
our daily news site TropicNow for 2018.
Kelly leads Taipans
Former Melbourne United assistant 1. Mass flooding across Cairns in March
cut off entire suburbs on the Northern
coach Mike Kelly joined the NBL Cairns
Taipans as head coach in April. He Beaches and residents were told to
Targa Great Barrier Reef conserve water debris blocked the
replaced Aaron Fearne, who’d been water intake from Copperlode Dam
at the helm since 2010 and has since
taken an assistant coaching position 2. Police reveal new lines of inquiry in
in US college basketball. Under Kelly’s Toyah Cordingley murder investigation
reign, a new-look Taipans team won its 3. Crystalbrook Collection launches
round one game against the Brisbane massive jobs campaign in August to
Bullets, though subsequent victories help staff its Cairns hotels
are proving much harder to come by.
4. Cairns Airport to undergo $55 million
Port Douglas triple domestic terminal redevelopment
Port Douglas came up trumps in all 5. TropicNow’s list of 48 reasons the
three football codes in 2018. The Port Cairns economy will start to shine in
Douglas Crocs held off the Cairns 2018
Saints to win their third straight AFL
Cairns premiership, while the Sharks
Hemingway’s Brewery at the Cairns Cruise Liner Terminal
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