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GOOD CITIZENS
Good Citizens is turning trash WHAT’S HOT Win
into trend with its unique range
of specs. The Sydney-based brand 26 CANDLE CO
offers sustainable sunnies, each pair Locally-made and reflective of the beautiful Far North?
made from 100% recycled single-use We like the scent of that! Sisters Tash and Julz have
plastic bottles. Not only is GC carbon created a range of coco-soy candles and reed diffusers
negative, but their modular design incorporating the places and plants of our region.
means every part of the glasses is From sandalwood grown in Cape York to Tahitian
customisable and fixable, allowing limes farmed on the Atherton Tablelands and Daintree
you to mix up your look. Head to vanilla beans, our favourite is Old Town Dimbulah,
tropicnow.com.au/win to score which harks back to the town’s heritage of tobacco
yourself a pair! growing. Enter at tropicnow.com.au/win for your
chance to take home a 26 Candle Co collection.
MORE: @goodcitizens_official
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READ, WATCH, LISTEN
Here’s what the Tropic team will be reading, watching and
listening to this August and September.
LISTENING TO the angel of 8th ave. by Gang of Youths, Not Your
Muse by Celeste, Birds And The BEE9 by Sampa the Great, INXS
WATCHING Puberty Blues, Love Death + Robots, Down to Earth
with Zac Efron, Love on the Spectrum
READING Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Crazy
Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan, American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins,
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

DESERT FRUIT COMPANY
The Tropic team is partial to a handful of dates
... especially when they’re in the sticky form
of a pudding. Desert Fruit Company, south-
east of Alice Springs, is one of Australia’s WHAT’S NOT
only commercial date farms and damn,
they produce a good grape. Of their twelve
different varieties, our pick is the rutab POOR PUBLIC TRANSPORT
barhee. You can find them at Alf & Bee’s We know public transport is rarely people’s first point of
fruit stall at Rusty’s Markets, or call when it comes to quick and efficient travel, but the
Community Foods down Oceana Walk. system in Cairns is lacking extraordinarily. Whether it’s
due to an absence of contactless smart cards – leaving
MORE: desertfruitcompany.com.au passengers scrounging for coins and drivers at risk of being
robbed – or a shortage of direct services (read: an hour
from the CBD to Palm Cove), our city can do better.
Flick to Page 28 to read more.

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