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Tropic Issue 27 tropicnow.com.au
December-January 2021
PUBLISHER
Leah Horstmann
Welcome to our last mag of 2020 – what a year it’s been! With the summer [email protected]
season in full swing, the Tropic team think it’s a great time to rediscover
the magic of our region, as well as reflect on the extraordinary things our EDITORIAL
Gavin King
city’s seen, achieved, and continuing to create. Annabel Bowles
[email protected]

CONTENT HIGHLIGHTS DESIGN
Catherine Clark
Tim Cooke
Alana Young
UPFRONT
ADVERTISING
10-17 [email protected]
Check out the latest trends in What’s Hot, alongside
regular Tropic columns like the Editor’s Letter, DIGITAL
Day in the Life, Scene Around and In Season. Can Kara
INTERNS
James Bell, Brooke Cooper
BRIEFINGS
18-27 CONTRIBUTORS
Reflect on the year that’s been with a column by NAB’s Elisha-Vi Raso and delve into Dr Alex Bernhardi, Jodie Duignan-George,
some industry issues with briefings on local environment, education and agriculture. Hyaesil Gilligan, Nicky Horstmann, Sam
Kennis, Isabella Kidston, Percy King
Eve Maskell, Tayla Pogan, Elisha-Vi Raso
COVER STORY
COVER
31-35 Stylist: Pip Addison
Get across the $60 million redevelopment of Cairns Central, the Models: Leilani Eddie & Ruby de Silva
city’s premier shopping centre for nearly a quarter of a century. Photography: Veronica Sagredo
Leilani wears dress by Mossman, bracelet
by Basque & earrings by Swarovski
EAT AND DRINK Ruby Wears dress by Mossman, necklace by
44-51 Basque & earrings by Gregory Ladner
Summer is here, and so is a tantalising selection of cocktails in Available at Myer & Swarovski Cairns
Served by Sam. We also break down the best burgers in Cairns
and swing into some of the city’s recent soirees.

ART AND DESIGN
52-60
We chat to ARIA-charting singer Eves Karydas on her Cairns
upbringing, a local art conservator about a rediscovered STOCKISTS
Albert Namatjira painting, and celebrate a big year for both Tropic magazine prints 7,500 copies every
CIAF and UMI Arts. two months and is distributed to over 100
cafes, shops, hotels, the airport and outlets
SPORT AND HEALTH across the region including Cairns, Innisfail,
61-65 Port Douglas and the Tablelands.
Discover some innovative new moves in our local health and To stock copies, please email:
wellbeing sector and some left-of-field sports to try this [email protected]
summer. Published by
Tropic Group ABN 99391842090
1/ 103 Mulgrave Rd, Cairns QLD 4870
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