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TROPIC • EDITORS LETTER

in business needs to operate with “buy local” as a core function. Every
day. Every purchase, every contract awarded. Is there a local provider I
could get a quote from on this service or that product? This extends to
contracting and spending with locally owned businesses as well – where
possible – instead of multinational corporations who may (or may From digital marketing to
not) operate with an outpost in Cairns. They’ll do just fine without our websites, video to graphic
peak organisations, advocates and departments furnishing them with design, copy-writing to
contracts. event management, we can
If you’ve got an example of missing out on a tender – or didn’t have the do it all at Tropic Studio.
opportunity to submit a bid on some project or contract in the first place Take a look at our portfolio
– please drop me a (confidential) line on the email address below. and services online and
see how we can help your
STATE SHENANIGANS business in 2020.
By the time you read this, the state election will be a matter of weeks
away. We hit the polls on October 31, and it’s going to be an interesting Chat about your next project
contest both across the state and here in the Tropical North. If early tropicstudio.com.au
polling that I’ve seen is anything to go by, the close race should result in (07) 4079 5217
both major parties needing to dig deep to sway our vote either way. Let’s
see what promises and projects come our way over the next month or so.

BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS
This edition marks Tropic’s fourth birthday, a milestone we’re proud and
humbled to reach. It was a pleasure to sit down with our back catalogue
of magazines and flick through the hundreds of pages of editorial content
we’ve produced across the past 25 editions. From opinion columns and
analysis to forecasts and special reports, along with countless profiles
of local businesses, artists, and sportspeople, a local magazine like
ours provides a kind of living history of a city. The trends, the faces, the
aspirations, all captured and documented for posterity. Local news media
is important to the economic and cultural life of a city. We’re privileged
to have served that purpose over the past four years in Cairns and look
forward to continuing that role into the future in print and online at SUBSCRIBE
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