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Tropic Issue 12 tropicnow.com.au
June - July 2018

CONTENTS

Welcome to the biggest issue of Tropic we’ve ever produced. EDITORIAL
Throughout this 12th edition you’ll discover some cool things EDITOR
Gavin King
worth knowing in business, lifestyle, food and the arts happening [email protected]
across the Cairns region. DESIGN
We kick off with our editor Gavin King talking up a Cairns Tim Cooke
Caitlin Brennan
marketing campaign to drive population growth (p8) followed by DIGITAL
our popular opening section featuring Tropic Recommends, Day Can Kara
WRITERS
In The Life, Scene Around, In Season and new columns On My Darren Barber
Desk and Just One Word (p10-15). Shaun Donaldson
Our briefing pages are next in the page queue (p16-24), covering Nicky Horstmann
Nikki Huddy
the latest in health, real estate, business news and the tourism Chris Sheppard
industry. We then welcome new columnists Eva Grabner from Megan Thomas
Elite Executive (p26) and Danny Maher from Fiducia Private Sharon Timms
PHOTOGRAPHY
Wealth Management (p28). Paul Furse: Front Row Foto
Our cover story (p33-39) highlights the amazing things ADVERTISING
happening at the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair, followed by profiles Tim Cooke: 0418 671 379
on SilkAir, GKS Chartered Accountants, Audi Centre Cairns, [email protected]
Lauren Moal: 0416 820 249
Status Plus, Thala Beach Nature Reserve and the Humans of [email protected]
Cairns initiative by the Young Entrepreneurs Project (p. 40-58). Misty Rider: 0400 877 381
We explore the latest in environmental news (p65) and Tropic’s [email protected]
COVER
opinion columnists return with a variety of views (p66). CIAF 2018: Model Kristen Fagan
On the food and beverage front, you’ll find reports on the exciting by Veronica Sagredo at
openings of Hemingways Brewery Cairns (p54) and The Blueclick Photography
Chambers (p87), plus a special report on the retail renaissance in
Gordonvale (p68-71).
In arts, we look at new creative courses at TAFE Queensland’s
Cairns campus (p72), the incredible Sea Walls mural project
(p75) and the latest exhibitions at Cairns Art Gallery (p78).
Our regular columns Tropical Abode and Chef Challenge feature
Ocean Blue Living (p81) and new Palm Cove café 27 Degrees STOCKISTS
Tropic is distributed to over 100
(p82), and we highlight some new stuff from Three Wolves and cafes, waiting rooms, shops,
Apex Milk Bar on our food briefing pages (p 85-87). hotels and other outlets from
We announce details of our latest foodie event Meet Eat Repeat Innisfail to Port Douglas. To
stock copies, email:
at Paradise Palms (p88) and Tropic columnist Chris Sheppard [email protected]
analyses the potential Cowboys take-over of Northern Pride CORRECTION
(p91). In our previous edition, we made
Check out - and support - the small businesses featured in our an error in the name of
make-up artist Sarah Holmes.
TropicGo section (p93) and finish off with some local heritage in We apologise for the mistake.
our Regional History column (p98). You can check out Sarah’s work
on Instagram:
@sarah.holmes.makeup.artist
That’s 100-pages of Tropic goodness to get you inspired and Published by TropicGroup P/L
informed. Please enjoy this edition as much as we did putting it Shop 1, 103 Mulgrave Rd
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