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Tropic Issue 16 tropicnow.com.au
February-March 2019

Welcome, dear reader, to the first edition of Tropic for 2019.
We loved putting this bumper issue together to kick off a big year ahead. EDITOR
Thanks for joining us for the start of another fun lap around the sun. Gavin King
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EDITORIAL
CONTENTS Renee Cluff
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UPFRONT DESIGN
8-14 Tim Cooke
Some bite-sized goodness to ease your way into the magazine, featuring our Editor’s Caitlin Brennan
Letter, Day in the Life with Chris Kahler, our new favourite things in Tropic Recommends, ADVERTISING
great local photography in Scene Around, plus On My Desk, One Word and In Season. Tim Cooke
BRIEFINGS [email protected]
16-29 0418 671 379
The essential stuff you need to know about the environment, real estate, agriculture, DIGITAL
tourism and business news in the Tropical North, along with Eva Grabner’s column. Can Kara
COVER STORY OPERATIONS
31-34 Leah Horstmann
We explore the green power evolution of MSF Sugar’s Tablelands mill. WRITERS
Dr Alex Bernhardi
PROFILES AND FEATURES Amy Eden
36-51 Foodvixen
We sit down with Prime Minister Scott Morrison, take a closer look at Urban Sync, the Eva Grabner
future of the Cairns CBD and look back at our predictions about the local economy from Daleena Hartin
12 months ago. Nicky Horstmann
Nikki Huddy
TROPIC HEALTH Mike Kelly
38-39 Sam Kennis
Check out our new health and well-being section featuring Dr Alex’s column and new Megan Thomas
recruits at Cairns Hospital. PHOTOGRAPHY
OPINION Paul Furse Front Row Foto
52-53
Tropic columnists wax lyrical about everything from infrastructure to personal
development.
FOOD
56-64
Foodie heaven right here with Foodvixen’s column, Paper Crane takes our Chef Challenge,
Hemingway’s Brewery gets a cannery, the new-look White Whale Coffee Roasters and
Sam Kennis from Three Wolves stirs up some cocktails.
COVER
SOCIALS Green power at MSF Sugar’s
69-73 $75 million Tablelands Mill
See who’s out and about networking and partying at recent events by the Cairns Chamber STOCKISTS
of Commerce, Crystalbrook Collection, Gilligans and the Cairns Performing Arts Centre. Tropic Magazine is distributed to
over 100 cafes, waiting rooms, shops,
SPORT hotels and other outlets across the
74-76 region including Cairns, Innisfail,
Check out the exclusive column from Taipans coach Mike Kelly and some physio advice Port Douglas, and the Tablelands. To
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