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TROPIC • TRENDS
WHITE WATER RAFTING
Ready to end the year with an epic
adrenaline rush among our amazing
surrounds? Cairns Adventure Group
offers white water rafting and tubing NEW TUNES
tours, complete with pick up from Holy smokes – our sunny state’s dished out some
Cairns, the Northern Beaches or Port good music lately. Tia Gostelow’s new album
Douglas. Locally owned and operated, CHRYSALIS and its lush blend of 80s dance and
Cairns Adventure Group is also folk is on high rotation at Tropic HQ. Straight out
ECO certified and working towards of Mackay, this singer songwriter and Luma Luma
becoming carbon neutral. woman is making waves at just 21 years old.
MORE: cairnsadventuregroup.com.au Ball Park Music’s sixth album, aptly named Ball
Park Music, is a no-frills fun time too. Eves Karydas
is another homegrown talent to watch following
her new release Get Me So High.
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WHAT’S NOT
RAINFOREST REGENERATION
Every day we see Tropical North
Queenslanders taking carbon-
cutting initiatives into their own GONE COLD ON EDUCATION
hands. Local organisation Native Amid the chaos of this year, government support for education
Conifers Carbon Sink will have has fallen short. There’s still no news on whether the Queensland
planted over 10,000 trees in the Government will help facilitate an intake of international students,
Tablelands by the summer’s end, despite unanimous calls for action from Study Cairns and other
with plans to plant a total of 35,000 education facilities in the region. CQUni also needs federal funding to
within five years. Restoring the build its new Cairns campus, which is projected to bring $500 million
region not only helps combat to the Far North over the next decade.
climate change, but protects our MORE: Page 40
Reef from nutrient run-off and our
environment from extreme weather.
MORE: nativeconifers.com
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