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Events' crash a blow for PD26 Feb 2015Port Douglas & Mossman Gazette, Port Douglas QLD, General News

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ICONIC Carnivale events the Longest Lunch and Food, Wine and a Taste of Port will not take place this year following thevoluntary liquidation of the organising company Events NQ. On Tuesday Events NQ, jointly run by Cairns Mayor Bob Manning,his wife Claire and other family members, was shut down with liquidator Tony Jonsson of Grant Thornton accountancy firmappointed to handle its affairs.View original - 444 word(s), ~2 min(s)

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WHITSUNDAY BUSINESS26 Feb 2015Whitsunday Times, Airlie Beach QLD, General News

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IT IS full steam ahead for Whitsunday Marketing and Development Limited's Closer Than You Think campaign that will launchin Townsville next week in partnership with Tourism and Events Queensland and our local tourism industry. On Friday, March6, a group of 50 ambassadors will depart on a road trip from Townsville to the Whitsundays.View original - 270 word(s), ~1 min(s)

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Fitzgerald says that the State's main grain handler has announced that Alan Mulgrew will ...27 Feb 2015 6:40 AMABC South West WA, Bunbury, Rural Report, Bridgett Fitzgerald

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Fitzgerald says that the State's main grain handler has announced that Alan Mulgrew will join its board as an independentdirector. She says that Mulgrew will replace Samantha Tough who resigned from the Cooperative Bulk Handling Board inDecember. Malgrew is the current chairman of the Western Power Board and holds board member positions for the AdelaideAirport, Tesla Corporation and Queensland Airports, took out the position effective immediately. She says that CBH ChairmanWally Newman says the appointment will be a valuable strategic addition to the board with Malgrew's experience and abilitiesposition to make him a strong contributor for WA growers.

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Hard sell for camp pie28 Feb 2015Weekend Post, Cairns, General News, Michael Warren

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CAIRNS' reputation as a premier North Queensland sports destination, ideal for staging pre-season training camps involvinghigh-profile sports teams from national codes, needs to be continually sold around the proven benefits of heat and humiditytraining, says a leading local AFL administrator. Speaking alongside AFL superstar Gary Ablett Jr, in town to promote the July11 match between the Western Bulldogs and Gold Coast Suns at Cazaly's Stadium, AFL Cairns president Gary Youngbelieves more can be done to attract high-profile sports teams to conduct pre-season training camps in town.View original - 487 word(s), ~2 min(s)

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Major win in myna war28 Feb 2015Weekend Post, Cairns, General News, Nick Dalton


Traps eliminate 30,000 birds from airport surburban areas CAIRNS Airport is winning the war against the myna bird pest.View original - 363 word(s), ~2 min(s)

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Sydney a template for Brisbane Games28 Feb 2015Weekend Australian, Australia, Sport, Wayne Smith Olympics

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ONE of the least-known but ultimately most valuable legacies of the 2000 Sydney Olympics was that virtually none of theintellectual property accumulated while planning and staging the hugely successful Games was lost. To that point, eachOlympics developed into a new exercise in reinventing the wheel. The US might have escaped this to a degree, with only twoOlympics separating the 1984 Los Angeles Games from those in Atlanta 12 years later, but generally each host city was on itsown, fumbling around from scratch.View original - 889 word(s), ~4 min(s)

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Two locked in air battle28 Feb 2015Weekend Post, Cairns, General News, Shannon Power


Airlines vie for Cairns-Bamaga route A RIVALRY for air services in Cape York has heated up as two airlines announced similarplans for flights between Cairns and the northern community of Bamaga.View original - 337 word(s), ~1 min(s)

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Wise to plan for airport28 Feb 2015Weekend Gold Coast Bulletin, Gold Coast, General News

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EDITORIAL FLAGGING the need for a second airport on the Gold Coast may seem unfounded right now but think aboutBrisbane and the decades-long push for Sydney's Badgerys Creek.View original - 88 word(s), ~0 min(s)

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Snap call for Far North's best views28 Feb 2015Weekend Post, Cairns, General News, Kimberley Vlasic

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THE Far North's spectacular waterfalls and beaches have been showcased in the first photo entries to the Tropical NorthQueensland Instamap competition. The joint Tourism Tropical North Queensland and The Cairns Post initiative is quicklygaining traction among Instagram users, who have been invited to submit photos of their favourite locations.View original - 173 word(s), ~0 min(s)

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We'll nick jobs off interstate01 Mar 2015Sunday Telegraph, Sydney, General News, Linda Silmalis

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A MAJOR advertising campaign to woo businesses to relocate from Queensland and Victoria to NSW will be launched if theNSW Coalition is re-elected on March 28. Giant billboards would be placed at airports as part of the campaign, which seizes onthe changing infrastructure priorities in both states.View original - 159 word(s), ~0 min(s)

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Airlines unruffled by trans-Tasman AirAsia02 Mar 2015The Australian, Australia, Business News

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ROUTES: Air New Zealand and Qantas are unfazed by suggestions low-cost carrier AirAsia X could enter the competitivetrans-Tasman market. Speculation that the Kuala Lumper-based budget carrier could enter the market was sparked by a tweetfrom AirAsia Group chief executive Tony Fernandes, tipped to be visiting Australia this week, that "New Zealand is beinglooked at via Australia".View original - 399 word(s), ~2 min(s)

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Cairns needs construction02 Mar 2015Cairns Post, Cairns QLD, General News

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Monday, March 2, 2015 DESPITE highly successful Chinese New Year festivities, better tourism figures and an improving realestate market, the economy of Cairns is still struggling.View original - 259 word(s), ~1 min(s)

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Think tank02 Mar 2015Gold Coast Bulletin, Gold Coast QLD, General News, Kathleen Skene


Nimble CEO, Sami Malia believes the Gold Coast can make its mark by filling a skills gap in technology. What do you loveabout the Gold Coast?View original - 994 word(s), ~5 min(s)

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New ideas needed to fund big projects02 Mar 2015Cairns Post, Cairns QLD, General News, Scott Forbes


AUTHORITIES in charge of bringing more infrastructure to Cairns have been urged to think laterally when it comes to funding.Federal member for Leichhardt Warren Entsch said tight fiscal times were no excuse for short-sighted planning in his continuedpush for a mangrove boardwalk connecting The Esplanade to Airport Ave.View original - 320 word(s), ~1 min(s)

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Carry on: Jetstar's Dreamliners, Qantas offers Gold, Air AsiaX returns and more02 Mar 2015 6:52 AMNational Business Review by nevil-gibson

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Jetstar to put Dreamliner on all long-haul routesJetstar’s fleet of Boeing 787-8 Dreamliners will be on all its international flights out of Australia by September. Melbourne toTokyo Narita will switch from July 10, followed by Melbourne-Singapore on...Read on source website

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Events’ crash a blow for PDICONIC Carnivale events theLongest Lunch and Food,Wine and a Taste of Port willnot take place this year follow-ing the voluntary liquidation ofthe organising companyEvents NQ.

On Tuesday Events NQ,jointly run by Cairns MayorBob Manning, his wife Claireand other family members,was shut down with liquidatorTony Jonsson of Grant Thorn-ton accountancy firm appoint-ed to handle its affairs.

Mr Manning offered to re-sign from council, but it was re-jected by his Unity teammembers.

The organising committeebehind Port Douglas Carnivalesaid planning is still underwayfor Carnivale’s 21st year de-spite the announcement.

Port Douglas Carnivalegeneral manager Roy Weaverssaid he was disappointed to

learn of the closure of theCairns and Port Douglas basedbusiness.

“Events NQ has worked inpartnership with Port DouglasCarnivale since 2007,” he said.

“During this time therehave been some incrediblehighlights and there is no ques-

tion their events helped to pro-pel Port Douglas Carnivale onthe domestic and internationalstage.”

Mr Weavers said the Carni-vale committee was already indiscussion with a number of in-dustry partners to create twonew flagship events to kick off

the opening festivities and anannouncement would be madein the coming weeks.

Mayor Bob Manning said:“I wanted to fight on but it hasbecome too much for us.

“We invested heavily in thebusiness and we won’t get any-

thing. We haven’t drawn awage or salary since we tookover,” he said.

“As a tourist destinationCairns is now approaching thetraditional quiet time of theyear and when planning ourprogress over the comingmonths we have come to thedecision that the immediateoutlook for the business is notencouraging.

“As a consequence and fol-lowing legal and financial ad-vice concerning the future ofthe business, regrettably a de-cision has been made to ceasetrading immediately.”

Mr Manning said the busi-

ness was placed in voluntaryliquidation to ensure the 10staff received their entitle-ments. “We believe that thiscourse of action provides thebest possible opportunity forstaff entitlements to be paidand creditor claims to be satis-fied,” he said.

“To continue to operate thebusiness may risk staff entitle-ments and possibly incur ad-ditional liabilities the businessmay not be able to satisfy.”

Mr Manning would not re-veal how much creditors andstaff were owed. “Despite ourbest intent and endeavours, thishas come at a significant per-sonal cost to my family,” he said.

“This is obviously a sad dayfor our staff and I would like tosincerely thank them and wishthem well in the future.” MrManning said his prioritieswere his wife’s health and hiscouncil duties.

Bob Manning: “regrettably a decision has been made”

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26 Feb 2015Port Douglas & Mossman Gazette, Port Douglas QLD

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WHITSUNDAY BUSINESS

IT IS full steam aheadforWhitsundayMarketingand Development Limi-ted’s Closer Than YouThink campaign that willlaunch in Townsville nextweek in partnership withTourism and EventsQueensland and our localtourism industry.On Friday, March 6, agroup of 50 ambassadorswill depart on a road tripfrom Townsville to theWhitsundays.The ambassadors willexperience some of the re-gion’s highlights along theway, including a spectacu-lar lunch in Bowen – Top ofthe Whitsundays, show-casing local produce.They will also spend anight in Airlie Beach andon Daydream Island to ex-perience first-hand whythe Whitsundays is theideal getaway for Towns-ville residents –much clos-er than you’d think.The campaign will bepromoted across printwith advertisements in theTownsville Bulletin,Townsville Eye and DuoMagazine, as well as

across radio, digital andsocial media.As part of the campaign,we will also be hosting atrade event on March 13 tostrengthen our relation-shipwith key travel agentsin Townsville and broadenour trade distribution net-work.All up, this is a majormarketing campaign forour region to drive book-ings during a rather quiettime of the year andwe areveryexcited for the launch.We were also thrilled tohear that WhitehavenBeach was yet again votedBest Beach in the SouthPacific and number nine ofthe world’s best beachesby the 2015 TripAdvisorTravellers’ ChoiceAwards.This is a huge successfor our region anda tributeto our local industry whoallow visitors to expe-rience this magnificentbeach day in, day out.Well done everyone anda huge thank you to the re-viewers that have rankedWhitehaven Beach sohighly!

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26 Feb 2015Whitsunday Times, Airlie Beach QLD



Hard sell for camp pieMICHAEL WARREN

CAIRNS’ reputation as a pre-mier North Queensland sportsdestination, ideal for stagingpre-season training camps in-volving high-profile sportsteams from national codes,needs to be continually soldaround the proven benefits ofheat and humidity training,says a leading local AFL ad-ministrator.

Speaking alongside AFLsuperstar Gary Ablett Jr, intown to promote the July 11match between the WesternBulldogs and Gold Coast Sunsat Cazaly’s Stadium, AFLCairns president Gary Young

believes more can be done toattract high-profile sportsteams to conduct pre-seasontraining camps in town.

“I see that (view) as beingfundamental,” Young said.

“What we’re trying to sellhere, and we can turn it on inspades, is the benefits gained

from heat and humidity train-ing. The scientists behind theresearch are saying this type oftraining probably gives alonger return residual benefit... than altitude training.

“All teams across our majorcompetitions are searching forthat competitive edge.

“Cairns, even more than aTownsville or Mackay, canprovide that simply because ofthe weather we get here – andour closer proximity to theequator.

“So let’s sell that, let’s go outand as a city we put that pack-age together … I think we havea convincing case.”

Young said another part of

the puzzle in attracting teams toCairns for pre-season campswas making flights affordableand having player accommoda-tion closer to training venues.

“If we can get together withthe AFL and work with theirairline partner Virgin andcome up with some decentfares so teams can afford to flyhere, then I reckon we’re on toa winner,” he said.

“We got feedback back pre-viously from one AFL club –they were all keen to come toCairns for a pre-season camp,but it came down to airfares.

“As a whole, it proved$25,000 dearer to fly here as asquad than it did to get to the

Sunshine Coast. We’ve hadsome ongoing discussionsabout this.

“Richmond came up toNorth Queensland just a fewyears back, but one thing thatwas difficult and we can’t com-pete with apart from providingCazalys and its facilities forfree, was the military base inTownsville. They provided theTigers with free accommoda-tion, meals and a lot of otherresources.

“All the (AFL) clubs are try-ing to save money, so wemissed out on that one and twoother opportunities because ofthe cost of airfares.”

While it might not have a

military base, Cairns does havea brilliant venue in Cazaly’sStadium.

Something that Towns-ville’s Tony Ireland Stadium orMackay’s Harrup Park doesnot because of the standard oflighting, lack of seats or appro-priate level of change room fa-cilities at either venue.

In a glowing endorsementyesterday, Gold Coast Sunslegend Ablett said he’d wel-come the chance to train in FarNorth Queensland.

“The surface at Cazaly’s isbrilliant. I’m sure the boyswould be open to (holding anypre-season Suns trainingcamps) in Cairns,” he said.

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HELPING FNQ SPRINT AHEAD

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28 Feb 2015Weekend Post, Cairns

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Major win in myna warTraps eliminate 30,000 birds from airport surburban areasNICK DALTON

CAIRNS Airport is winningthe war against the myna birdpest.

Suburban trapping at near-by Cairns North, Aeroglen andStratford has led to a large re-duction in airport populations.

Consultant biologist IanNorthcott said numbers hadbeen cut by half in the past fiveyears.

He said the average counthad fallen from 75 in 2010 to 37last year.

“The average counts of

common mynas at the airportshow a steady decrease innumbers since trapping startedin 2011,” Mr Northcott said.

Cairns Airport chief execu-tive Kevin Brown said all birdand wildlife at the airport weremonitored.

He said mynas were consid-ered low risk to aircraft be-cause they tended to stay closeto ground level in the grassysections of the airfield, away

from critical areas such as therunway.

“Our data on myna birds onthe airport goes back to 2004and the latest numbers are wellbelow the highest recordedlevels,” Mr Brown said.

Cairns Remove IndianMynas Inc president PeterGoulding said the programhad been a success.

“From August last year on-wards the counts were among

the lowest recorded since thesurveying (at the airport) com-menced,” he said.

Mr Goulding said residentshad bought at least 1500 trapsto catch and euthanise the pest

“with environmental zeal”.“We cannot say how many

have been dispatched eventhough we have attempted tosurvey trap owners,” he said.

“The Cairns Men’s Shed,which makes the traps, has

kept records of catches madeby 30 highly successful trap-pers and the total for them wasover 6500, with one catcheralone catching over 800 birds.

“The RIM committee esti-mates about 30,000 mynashave been killed since thescheme began in late 2011.”

But Mr Goulding said theprogram was in danger ofbeing axed as he could nolonger continue as president.

Also needed are a secretaryand someone to look after thedatabase.

“I have approached a num-ber of people to take up theempty positions,” he said.

“If a person has a deep in-terest in protecting our envi-ronment, a position on theRIM committee would provehighly rewarding.”Mr Goulding can be contacted at [email protected] or 4054 4311.

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Sydney a template for Brisbane GamesWAYNE SMITH OLYMPICS

ONE of the least-known but ult-imately most valuable legacies ofthe 2000 Sydney Olympics wasthat virtually none of the intellec-tual property accumulated whileplanning and staging the hugelysuccessful Games was lost.

To that point, each Olympicsdeveloped into a new exercise inreinventing the wheel. The USmight have escaped this to a de-gree, with only two Olympics sep-arating the 1984 Los AngelesGames from those in Atlanta 12years later, but generally each hostcity was on its own, fumblingaround from scratch.

Sydney was where all thatchanged. Working with MonashUniversity, the Australian Olym-pic Committee and the Internat-ional Olympic Committeeestablished a transfer of know-ledge process that provided eachsubsequent Games city with a roadmap to start from. But that’s notthe end of it. So well run were theSydney Games that there has beenvirtually no major multi-sportsevent since staged anywhere in theworld that wasn’t heavily staffedby Australians. The 2010 DelhiCommonwealth Games, the 2012London Olympics, even the 2008Beijing Games all drew signifi-cantly on Australian expertise.

All this know-how now will beplaced at Brisbane’s disposal if, asseems increasingly likely, it pushesahead with plans to bid for the2028 Olympics.

As John Fahey, the formerNSW premier who worked soclosely with Sydney bid chiefexecutive Rod McGeoch to makethe 2000 Games a triumph, put ityesterday, the Brisbane bid shoulduse Sydney as a template. “There isno point rewriting the program ifthere’s one already there,” he said.

Of course, it could be said Bris-bane already has its own Olympicplans, the ones prepared in the mid

1980s for its ultimately unsuccess-ful bid for the 1992 Games.

The bad news is that they noware virtually irrelevant. The goodnews is that what makes thembarely worthy of the effort of blow-ing the dust off is how spectacu-larly southeast Queensland hasboomed over the past three dec-ades. No battle plan survives con-tact with the enemy and in the caseof Brisbane’s 1992 Games strategy,the main enemy was the most im-placable one of all — time.

Looking back on the 1992 plans,the most striking feature is thatwhat Brisbane was proposing waslittle more than a beefed-up ver-sion of the CommonwealthGames it staged 10 years earlier.Indeed, that’s exactly what it was,save for the addition of all thoseadditional sports such as football,tennis, yachting and a dozen morethat were not on the 1982 program.

But the sporting zones pro-posed were the same ones used in1982, the inner-city, the SleemanSports Centre at Chandler, the

nearby Belmont rifle range andthe main QEII stadium at Nathan.The only significant addition wasthe Boondall zone where theOlympic Village was to have beenbuilt in close proximity to the ve-nues for nine sports includingyachting, which was to be held onMoreton Bay. Remnants of thatplan will surely figure in any newBrisbane bid, most especially theChandler zone which already hasbeen given a new lease of life toplay its part in the 2018 Common-wealth Games on the Gold Coast.A new 4000-seat velodrome isbeing built there, while the Bel-mont shooting facilities are beingsignificantly upgraded.

Overall, the Gold Coast Gameswill go close to almost doubling thecapacity of what Brisbane was of-fering for 1992, not just in terms ofsporting venues but also on the ac-commodation front.

Whether the Boondall wet-

lands would still be seen as theideal venue for an Olympic Villageto house 10,700 athletes would beup for debate but certainly they arewell-serviced by the Gateway Ar-terial Road that links the GoldCoast and Sunshine Coast. Thenecessary infrastructure of asuper-highway between Brisbaneand the Gold Coast is already inplace, a second Gateway Bridge isthere as well and all that would beneeded to complete that picturewould be a substantial upgrade ofthe Sunshine Coast Highway. Oh,and a rail link direct to the Sun-shine Coast, not one that merelypasses in the general vicinity.

The other glaring infrastruc-ture shortcoming is the lack of a75-80,000-capacity main stadium.QEII would serve as a trainingvenue but its day has passed and itmay be that Brisbane needs to re-visit plans to upgrade Lang Park orbuild a new stadium either on thesite of the Roma Street rail yards orthe Exhibition Grounds.

In the first instance, southeastQueensland’s Games tilt hingeson the outcome of Friday’s meet-ing of the mayors of the 12 regionalcouncils but, as Australia’s long-est-serving IOC member KevanGosper advised The Weekend Aus-tralian yesterday, ultimately forany bid to succeed it must havewidespread community support.

If the mayors vote in favour of abid, one of Lord Mayor GrahamQuirk’s first tasks surely must be toset up a committee to design thebroad concept of a 2028 Olympicplan. Fahey yesterday was confi-dent the Queensland and federalgovernments would not needmuch convincing to back Bris-bane, based on the fact the SydneyGames cost NSW “only” $2 billion.

Yes, Tony Abbott and Annasta-cia Palaszczuk might initially takesome convincing, but it’s the peo-ple of Queensland, most especiallythe one in seven Australians wholive in the southeast corner of thestate, who need to be won over.

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28 Feb 2015Weekend Australian, Australia

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Who, one wonders, will emergeto play the charming, persuasiverole Sallyanne Atkinson filled forthe long-ago 1992 bid?

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28 Feb 2015Weekend Australian, Australia

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Airlines vie for Cairns-Bamaga route

Two locked in air battleSHANNON POWER

A RIVALRY for air services inCape York has heated up astwo airlines announced similarplans for flights betweenCairns and the northern com-munity of Bamaga.

Communities in Cape Yorkhave been left without perma-nent air services since the col-lapse of the Cairns-basedairline Skytrans in January.

The former LNP govern-ment made temporary ar-rangements with West WingAviation to fly to the regionuntil permanent services couldbe finalised.

However, the arrangementshave not been enough to meetdemand with many peoplemissing out on flights.

Regional Express (Rex) saidit would begin flights to Bama-

ga on March 30 using a 34-seater Saab 340 B Plus plane.

West Wing Aviation(WWA) announced it wouldupgrade the kind of aircraft fly-ing to Cape York to the $5 mil-lion 36-seater Dash-8 aircraft.

Up to 15,000 passengers ayear fly the Cairns to Bamagaroute and spokespeople forboth companies admitted itwould not be feasible for twoairlines using similar-sized aer-oplanes to service it but wouldgo ahead with flights anyway.

The Dash-8s would also ser-vice the communities of Coen,Pormpuraaw, Kowanyama,Aurukun and Lockhart River.

WWA commercial man-ager Michael Thinee said thecompany planned to set up abase in Weipa removing theneed for people who wanted tofly to other parts of the region

to fly to Cairns and out again.This option would also cut

the price of flights to less thanhalf of what they are now.

WWA said it decided tolease the bigger plane at the re-quest of the Cape IndigenousMayors’ Association (CIMA).

Northern Peninsula AreaRegional Council (NPARC)Mayor Bernard Charlie said hewas glad there would be twoairlines flying to Bamaga as itwould increase competition.

“Apart from governmentfunding, we want new moneyto come into the community,”he said. “We worked with Rexto make sure they providejobs and training opportunitiesfor locals.

“It will also attract tourismbecause you can book withRex online internationally, itwill put NPA on the map.”

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EDITORIAL

Wise to planfor airportFLAGGING the need for a second airporton the Gold Coast may seem unfoundedright now but think about Brisbane and thedecades-long push for Sydney’s BadgerysCreek.

Griffith University lecturer Dr AllanBlackman says the city needs to upgrade itstransport and freight capacity or face econ-omic decline.

Major cities need two airports and itmakes sense to plan or at least set asideroom so the Coast, with a projected popu-lation of 1.2 million by 2050, does not finditself in the same situation as Sydney.

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28 Feb 2015Weekend Gold Coast Bulletin, Gold Coast



Snap call for Far North’s best viewsKIMBERLEY VLASIC

THE Far North’s spectacular waterfalls and beaches have been showcased in the first photo entries to the Tropical North Queensland Instamap competition.

The joint Tourism TropicalNorth Queensland and The

Cairns Post initiative is quickly gaining traction among Instagram users, who have been invited to submit photos of their favourite locations.

The best of the bunch will

feature on the TNQ Instamap, which will be included in The Cairns Post’s “Passport to Tropical North Queensland”

publication. Some 200,000 copies will be handed out to visitors arriving in the region, including at Cairns Airport, from mid-April.

Registered nurse Alison Neale, who goes by the name ali_1712 on Instagram, was one of the first users off the mark, submitting photos of Millaa

Millaa Falls and Paronella Park.

The former Mission Beachresident has fond memories of the region.

“I have lots of photos fromup there but I like those two the best,” she said. Entries close on March 13, visit tnqinstamap.com.au

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GREEN HAVEN: Instagram user ali_1712 snapped Paronella Park for the TNQ Instamap competition.

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We’ll nick jobs off interstate LINDA SILMALIS

A MAJOR advertising cam-paign to woo businesses torelocate from Queensland andVictoria to NSW will belaunched if the NSW Coalitionis re-elected on March 28.

Giant billboards would beplaced at airports as part of thecampaign, which seizes on thechanging infrastructure priori-ties in both states.

NSW Premier Mike Bairdsaid the move to woo busines-ses to NSW follows an inter-national campaign to boosttrading partners in China andIndia.

“As Victoria pulls back onits infrastructure program andQueensland rejects the bal-ance sheet reforms that wouldfund key projects there, we arepoised to attract businesses toNSW, turbocharging the jobsboom we have seen over thepast four years,” he said.

“The Baird government hasalready increased our market-ing efforts internationally withkey trading partners includingChina and India.

“Now it’s time to extend thiseffort domestically, encourag-ing businesses to choose NSW.These initial efforts, plannedfor Melbourne and Brisbaneairports, do just that.”

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01 Mar 2015Sunday Telegraph, Sydney

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Airlines unruffled by trans-Tasman AirAsiaROUTES: Air New Zealand and Qantas are unfazed bysuggestions low-cost carrierAirAsia X could enter thecompetitive trans-Tasman market.

Speculation that the KualaLumper-based budget carriercould enter the market wassparked by a tweet from AirAsia Group chief executive Tony Fernandes, tipped to be visitingAustralia this week, that “New Zealand is being looked at viaAustralia”.

Airlines that serve Australia’seast coast can fly on to New Zealand and carry passengers between the two countries.

Carriers that already do thisinclude Emirates, LAN Airlines and China Airlines.

AirAsia X flies to Sydney,Melbourne, the Gold Coast, Darwin and Perth, with Sydneyand Melbourne the most likely choices as a launch pad for thekiwi flights. But Qantas and AirNZ say they can handle the extra competition.

“We cope with AirAsia as acompetitor on whole series of routes, and it looks like theyhaven’t been very successful on the Australian market,’’ Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce said.

Mr Joyce said Jetstar competed against AirAsia X onBali routes and did exceptionallywell.

Air NZ chief executiveChristopher Luxon said the kiwicarrier was “very, very fit and very, very competitive’’.

“So we are quite confident,

and if you look at many of themarkets, we compete with low-cost carriers, we compete with Asian carriers and we competewith others all across thenetwork,” he said.

“What I’ve learned in the lastfew years is Air New Zealand isable to compete with anybodyand do very well.’’

AirAsia X released fourth-quarter results last week thatshowed the airline made a netloss of 169 million Malaysian ringgit ($60m), due mainly to currency and fuel changes.Revenue rose more than 20 percent to 819 million ringgit, compared with the previous quarter, while passenger numbers were 11.7 per cent higher at 1.1 million.

The budget carrier’s Indonesian arm hit the headlines over Christmas after it was forced to delay the start of aMelbourne-Bali service becauseit failed to get regulatory approval in time.

The suggestion AirAsiaX would join the trans-Tasmanfray came as Virgin Australia thisweekend launched services to New Zealand featuring its business class cabin.

The airline is refitting 10 of itsBoeing 737s with leather business class seats in a 2-2configuration. The seats have apitch of 96.5cm, and passengersin the front cabin will also be offered special menus, priority check-in, boarding and baggage services and amenity kits.

STEVE CREEDY

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02 Mar 2015The Australian, Australia

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Monday, March 2, 2015

Cairns needs construction DESPITE highly successful Chinese New

Year festivities, better tourism figures andan improving real estate market, the

economy of Cairns is still struggling.Employment figures prove that jobs are still

proving difficult to find. According to the latest CairnsWatch report,

the number of those in work has fallen again from 104,600 in December to 101,700 in January with the trend “turning down sharply in recent months”.

Herron Todd White research director Rick Carr says the unemployment trend rate is hovering around 8.6 per cent but, worryingly, those looking for work has “plummeted”.

This is despite record numbers of passengersarriving at the airport’s domestic terminal and improving numbers of international travellers as well as a “progressively recovering property sector”.

It’s early days of the new Labor Government,which is still tight for spending money, and the workforce required for the first of the Aspial Nova 8 towers in the CBD won’t be required until later this year.

The Palaszczuk Government needs to make iteasier for businesses to employ people and there are plans to reintroduce some jobs programs, especially for the young.

But private development is the key and Cairns thrives when people visit, spend and stay.

Of course if the Government was to fast-trackprobity investigations and approval of a gaming licence for the $8.15 billion Aquis project there would be thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars pouring into Government coffers.

Where there is construction, there is growthand confidence, which is what the region needs to ensure improvements in unemployment figures.

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02 Mar 2015Cairns Post, Cairns QLD



WITH CHIEF REPORTER KATHLEEN SKENE

Email: [email protected]

Nimble CEO, Sami Malia believes the Gold Coast can make its mark by filling a skills gap in technology.What do you love about the Gold Coast?Without doubt, the incredible lifestyle. We’re spoiled to have such natural beauty on our doorstep. The great weather makes it easy to get outdoors, keep active and maintain a healthy work-life balance.

At Nimble, we’re lucky enough to be just a stone’s throw from the Southport Broadwater. We can take lunch breaks at the beach, hold team meetings in the park, and the ocean views keep us all relaxed. We even have an office telescope to check out the surf!

Besides anything else, not many CEOs get away with wearing shorts to work!

What do you think can be done better on the Coast?While tourism will always be a major asset of the Gold Coast, there are also 600,000 full-time residents who want all the same things as everyone around the world — security, purpose, prosperity and happiness.

To achieve a sustainable future, we must move beyond tourism and build a strong local economy with jobs in high-growth industries driven by digital technology.

There are great people here,creative businesses, and a spirit of entrepreneurism but too

often we see innovative start-ups leave for Sydney, Melbourne and, more often than not, they go overseas.

The Gold Coast could be a major hub of innovation but more must be done to create an ecosystem that supports and rewards entrepreneurialism like funding grants, start-up incubators and accelerators, co-working spaces and a focus on technology and entrepreneurial education.

In your travels what have you seen being done elsewhere you think could work well here?Innovative cities around the world have one thing in common, and that’s a geographical hub of creative and cultural activities. Within these areas we often see co-working spaces. For example in Sydney and Melbourne there are an abundance of these shared working spaces that have transformed entire suburbs into creative hubs where start-ups and entrepreneurs thrive.

While it’s fantastic to see ahandful of co-working spaces dotted around the Gold Coast, we need to promote more of these spaces to really create a concentration of innovation.

The Gold Coast is a great place to live, and we need to work on making it a great place to attract and retain the best talent. We need to focus on life outside work for creative and innovative people such as events, networking opportunities, world-class dining options and entertainment precincts.

If money, laws, time and approvals were no issue, what is one big project you’d undertake tomorrow?I’d love to see a world-class technology and innovation hub built alongside one of the Gold Coast’s universities. It’s great that there are dedicated information and technology faculties, but technology skills are still in desperately short supply here on the Gold Coast. To build Nimble’s tech team, we’ve been forced to recruit from interstate andoverseas.

An education precinct thatspecialises in high demand technology skills such as data science, coding and software engineering as well as a broader focus on innovative thinking and business skills would open job opportunities to local graduates, encourage more tech start-ups to set up shop

and inspire the next generation of Gold Coast entrepreneurs.

If you look at Dubai, they’vegot a financial centre, a financial district where they’ve invested a lot of money; they created a Dubai internet city and media city — free zones that enabled companies to come in and have 100 per cent ownership of their businesses and operate and they attracted companies like Microsoft, Cisco, HP, Google — all of them. Suddenly you’ve got this concentration of world-class tech companies all in one area the size of Southport.

You can do a course there from Harvard, from Stanford — all the professors fly in from the US — they’ve invested in that and that’s why it’s attractive.

What conversations should Gold Coast movers and shakers be having?While it’s important to build a strong local economy we mustn’t forget about the social issues here on the Gold Coast.

A vibrant, positive and safelocal community is the backbone of any successful city. But I’m unhappy to say that one of the biggest social issues we face here is domestic violence.

Gold Coast businesses andleaders must rally around community organisations, with offers of long-term support, and become part of a local network to prevent violence in our community.

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02 Mar 2015Gold Coast Bulletin, Gold Coast QLD

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Gold Coast businesses and leaders must rally around

community organisations, with offers of long-term support and

become part of a local network to prevent violence in our community

CULTURAL PRECINCT

CASINO AND CRUISE SHIPS ELSEWHERE ON THE COAST

CASINO AND CRUISE SHIPS IN THE BROADWATER

CAVILL AVE NEEDS A FACELIFT

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SAMI MALIASami Malia has lived and worked a career of contrasts across the world.

The Brisbane-born chartered accountant left Australia after training with Price Waterhouse with the intention of staying overseas for a year or two — but it took 17 years to draw him back.

With Schlumberger Oilfield Services he worked key management assignments in Dubai, London and Milan and was promoted to regional financial controller for West and South Africa, based in Luanda, Angola — a business turning over US$330 million.

Needing a change, Mr Malia went back to uni, while still working full time, to complete a Masters of Information Technology, before being recruited as CFO for SAB Group, a Saudi owned conglomerate with interests in real estate, media, telecommunications,

technology, logistics and retail.

In 2008, he joined International Personal Finance, a UK-listed consumer micro finance organisation as Business Development Director based in Prague, and transferred to Mexico as Chief Operating Officer — responsible for 1700 staff and 10,000 agents.

Through a mutual friend,he was introduced to Nimble founders Greg Ellis and Sean Teahan — and they spoke regularly for two years.

The pair talked him into aQueensland comeback, bringing him into Nimble as chief operating officer in 2013, before his rise to CEO last June. The company is growing rapidly, has already raised close to $20 million in external investment and provided almost 800,000 short-term loans. Now they have the big banks in their sights.

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New ideas needed to fund big projects

SCOTT FORBES

AUTHORITIES in charge ofbringing more infrastructureto Cairns have been urged tothink laterally when it comesto funding.

Federal member for Leich-hardt Warren Entsch said tightfiscal times were no excuse forshort-sighted planning in hiscontinued push for a man-grove boardwalk connectingThe Esplanade to Airport Ave.

“We’re doing it tough at themoment but good ideas have alife of their own and if we’re

frightened about the cost, thennothing will get done, let’s bebold,” he said.

“We need a little bit of lat-eral thinking here, rather thanjust doing a widening on thehighway let’s do somethingsmarter to link in with otherinfrastructure.

“I’ve spoken with (CairnsMayor) Bob Manning aboutthis, council’s already done afair bit of work, they’ve alreadybeen looking at this conceptand I think they have a $120million capital works budget.”

The Mayor said he wanted

safer options for pedestriansand cyclists along Airport Ave.

“A pathway may be one of

the possible solutions but itmust be considered in terms ofthe outlay which would be re-quired, which could run intothe millions of dollars,” he said.

“There are a number of ac-tions being considered to ad-dress safety issues, this may

include an initial audit of usersof the road to better under-stand current use and assist inidentifying the best method ofmeeting user requirements.Safety must be the priority.

“Council will continue to in-vestigate this and other op-tions going forward with

Cairns Airport and the Depart-ment of Transport and MainRoads.”

Cairns-based Labor SenatorJan McLucas offered biparti-san support.

“The death of DinahBoughton on Airport Drivewas a tragic accident thatnever should have happened,”she said.

“I encourage talks betweenthe Cairns Airport, our newState Government and CairnsRegional Council on how ped-estrians and cycle safety can beimproved.”

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BOLD PLAN: Leichhardt MP Warren Entsch (inset) is pushing for a mangrove boardwalk connecting The Esplanade to Airport Ave.

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