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Tropic Issue 25 tropicnow.com.au
August-September 2020
EDITOR
Gavin King
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It’s our birthday! A special thanks to our readers, advertisers and stockists
for your support of Tropic Magazine over the past four years. As Tropical DESIGN
Tim Cooke
North Queensland’s premier print publication, we’re proud and passionate Catherine Clark
about highlighting the best our region has to offer, from business to ADVERTISING
lifestyle, food and the arts, and everything in between. We hope you enjoy [email protected]
Tropic’s special 25th edition. (07) 4079 5217
OPERATIONS
CONTENT HIGHLIGHTS Leah Horstmann
DIGITAL
Can Kara
UPFRONT INTERN
8-17 James Bell
Our editor Gavin King takes some big organisations to CONTRIBUTORS
task for their ‘Local Buy’ practises, plus Georgina Twomey Pete Faulkner
features in Day In the Life, alongside our regular columns Hyaesil Gilligan
Scene Around, What’s Hot and In Season. Eva Grabner
Amalie Grima
Nicky Horstmann
BRIEFINGS Sam Kennis
18-23 Chris Lodge
Eva Grabner from Elite Executive talks recruitment, Nicholas Slatyer from Belle Property Catherine Ross
Cairns waxes lyrical on real estate, plus our briefings on environmental news. Nicholas Slatyer
COVER
SPECIAL REPORT
CIAF 2020
Designer: Mylene Hower’s Ghost Net
24-29 Headress, Pormpuuraw Arts and Cultural
Economic overview Centre
Tropic takes a deep dive into the state of the Cairns economy with analysis by CONUS Model: Model: Ebony Doyle
economist Pete Faulkner and our comprehensive list of reasons to be positive about the Location: Wangetti
city’s future. Photography: Colyn Huber/Lovegreen
Photography
COVER STORY

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Our favourite arts and culture festival is back for 2020 with a new digital format. Check
out all the great things happening at the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair in our big cover story.

EAT AND DRINK STOCKISTS
48-51 Tropic magazine prints 10,000 copies every
two months and is distributed to over 100
We catch up with CBD bars Miss Chief and Wolf Lane Distillery and serve up our list of cafes, waiting rooms, shops, hotels, the
the best fried chicken joints in Cairns. airport and other outlets across the region
including Cairns, Innisfail, Port Douglas and
the Tablelands. To stock copies, please email:
[email protected]
SPORT
60-63 Published by
Tropic Group ABN 99391842090
A Cairns Rugby photo spread by Chris Lodge, a big player signing by the Cairns Taipans 1/ 103 Mulgrave Rd, Cairns QLD 4870
and PhyxMe Physiotherapy’s advice for athletes. Ph: (07) 4079 5217 | tropicgroup.com.au

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