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Sunny days ahead for the coast28 Jan 2015 11:42 AMTravel Weekly Australia by travelweekly.com.au
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A wide range of year-round events is expected to lure both domestic and international travellers back to the Sunshine Coast in 2015,off the back of double-digit visitation growth last year. The region’s tourism board will also increase investment in...
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Interview with Kevin Brown, CEO, North Queensland Airports about safety on Airport ...28 Jan 2015 5:07 PMABC Far North, Cairns, Drive, Adam Stephen
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Interview with Kevin Brown, CEO, North Queensland Airports about safety on Airport Avenue. Stephen notes that Brown will beencouraging the council and government to work with the airport to prevent pedestrians being killed or injured on the main road intoCairns Airport. Stephen says calls for a new footpath has sparked a lot of discussion on social media. Brown says he has beenspeaking with Qld Police, the Department of Transport, Main Roads and the Cairns Regional Council. Stephen notes that a public busservice is standard across many airports, and asks if there this service in Cairns. Brown says there are buses and tourism wholesalersprovide transport options.
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CLEARED FOR TAKE-OFF29 Jan 2015Townsville Bulletin, Townsville QLD, General News
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Mornington Island's big launch29 Jan 2015Queensland Country Life, Brisbane , General News, Sally Cripps Blackall
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A missing link that's no game29 Jan 2015Gold Coast Bulletin, Gold Coast QLD, General News
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Bright future linked to tourism29 Jan 2015Gympie Times, Gympie QLD, General News
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Figaro, like you've never seen before, coming to Proserpine29 Jan 2015Daily Mercury, Mackay QLD, General News
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How the Bulletin has campaigned for international flights
ANTHONY GALLOWAYINTERNATIONAL flights betweenTownsville and Bali could commencesoon with the Federal Government ex-pected to underwrite the cost of settingup customs and immigration services.
Herbert MP Ewen Jones has been lob-bying colleagues in Canberra to coverthe cost of providing the services and abreakthrough is expected within weeks.
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Townsville Bulletin, Townsville QLD29 Jan 2015
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On board:clearancelooms forBali flightTownsville Airport has been indiscussions with AirAsia andJetstar to commence directflights but the high cost of pro-viding customs, quarantineand border protection serviceshas been a sticking point.
While a charge of $55 perpassenger is levied at other air-ports with regular internation-al services, it is understood theDepartment of Immigrationand Border Protection hadcalled for $90 per passenger tobe levied at Townsville to ac-count for the increased costs offlying staff to the city.
Herbert MP Ewen Jonessaid he had been in regularcontact with the Prime Minis-ter’s office, as well as TransportMinister Warren Truss andnew Immigration MinisterPeter Dutton.
“I remain confident for agreat result. It’s just aboutwhen we can get the parties tosign,” he said.
“We feel very confident wewill have something worthtalking to Townsville Airportabout. This has been a whole-of-government approach.
“Peter Dutton has beenvery forthright and proactivesince taking on the role of Im-migration Minister. Beingfrom Queensland, he under-stands Townsville and the na-ture of the business.”
Townsville Airport chiefexecutive Kevin Gill said hewas continuing constructivetalks with a number of airlinesand the Federal Government.
“It is evident from the level
From page 1for international services and itis imperative that a solutionacceptable to all parties isreached as soon as possible,”he said.
It is understood AirAsia isinterested in commencing di-rect flights between Townsvilleand Denpasar, three times aweek. A spokesman for AirA-sia said discussions withTownsville Airport had beenunderway for some time.
“Townsville, like other re-gional centres in Australia andelsewhere, has the capacity tosustain international servicesfor inbound and outboundtourism opportunities and willcontinue to be considered,” thespokesman said.
Jetstar has also expressedits interest in introducing di-rect flights to Bali in the secondhalf of this year.
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Townsville Bulletin, Townsville QLD29 Jan 2015
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Mornington Island’s big launchCan a jetty lift this community out of Third World conditions?
Sally CrippsBlackall
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CYCLONES have battered Morning-ton Island’s infrastructure ever since it was built, and a barge
recently delivered a death blow to its only jetty, but it is long-term neglect and a “big brother” attitude that is causing the most damage, says its mayor.
“We are going to be quiet no longer” was the promise of the Gulf communi-ty’s Mayor Bradley Wilson when Sena-tor Barry O’Sullivan visited its Gunana township last week to look at a National Stronger Regions funding proposal for the jetty and a freezing/processing facility.
On his arrival in one of Queens-land’s most remote shires, the senator was confronted by statistics not often encountered on his year-long tour taking in every town in the state – total dependence on government funding, 12 to 18 people regularly on dialysis treatment in Townsville, no promise of jobs for the island’s youth and 60 to 80 people on court lists for home brewing.
Mr O’Sullivan responded firstly by offering shire leaders an hour with Nationals leader Warren Truss in Canberra, then expanded that to an audience with federal assistant Health Minister Fiona Nash, before saying he would guarantee he would provide access to any federal minister they wanted to see to put their case for an improvement in the quality of life and sustainable local industries.
Although Cr Wilson began the historic meeting with the first political figure outside of official duties to visit in decades by saying he wanted Morn-
ington’s voice to be heard, he and his fellow councillors baulked at travelling to Canberra to begin the overdue con-versation on the region’s dire state.
Blaming the “explosive” costs of flying to mainland Australia by Rex Air-lines as a barrier – a return flight to Cairns alone costs $1200 – CEO Frank Mills urged the senator to encourage politicians to travel to the island to see the scale of the issues first-hand.
“We’re on a shoestring budget but it’s always us that has to do the travel-ling,” he said. “If you want to make local government sustainable in the long-term, you should be coming to where we are.” If they did, they would find people’s health in a “woeful state”,
according to Cr Robyrta Felton, who said the number of islanders in dialysis in Townsville ranged from 12 to 18.
An approach to government for a renal unit on the island, so that patients were not separated from their home-land, was unsuccessful, she said.
“The only time our people come back is in a coffin.”
Cr Felton blamed much of the ill-ness on rampant home brewing and
recipes full of sugar.“Prohibition is encouraging people
to make their own alcohol and it’s slowly killing our people,” she said.
To Mr O’Sullivan’s response that indigenous communities were ravaged by alcohol-fuelled assaults, possibly necessitating alcohol management plans, Cr Felton commented that similar violence was seen in cities such as Sydney all the time.
“Prohibition has never worked in the
world. Why are indigenous communi-ties being deprived,” she said. “We had it sorted; the elders were managing it.”
The introduction in 2003 of an Alco-hol Management Plan and then the clo-sure of the local tavern in 2008 follow-ing riots is a sore point with the council from a financial angle as well.
It was making $1.8m a year from operations and was told it would
receive compensation for its closure.This amounts to $700,000, accord-
ing to Cr Wilson, an income reduction of $1m. “We could be putting that money into rebuilding roads. If you cut our funding, you cut employment.”
The shire is unable to rate its residents and is largely dependent on government for its funding, but Mornington Island’s councillors last week declared the political interest in the island a turning point.
“We need empowerment and the ability to drive our own agenda without the state government telling us what to do all the time,” Cr Felton said.
“We live here and we get told, this is good for you. It kills the spirit of indige-nous people.
“There is no promise of any jobs. Our children can go to the best colleges
in Queensland but if they come back, we’ve got nothing to offer them.”
The council sees a long-term solu-tion in the ocean with eco-tourism and sustainable fishing practices, through the major redevelopment of the jetty and foreshore precinct.
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Queensland Country Life, Brisbane29 Jan 2015, by Sally Cripps Blackall
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Estimated to cost between $4m and $8m, the project would provide moorings for commercial and leisure craft needing to replenish supplies.
“Improved infrastructure will encourage productivity and economic benefits, providing services from fuel, fishing supplies, welding, maintenance, even cafes,” CEO Frank Mills said.
“A new structure will also assist in refined disaster management and allow for safer evacuation procedures in the event of cyclones.”
Visitors were taken to inspect the site of the proposal and were told com-mercial interests had been approached to help facilitate council’s commitment.
There appeared to be large-scale interest in using the facility.
Cr Wilson said the “out of sight, out of mind” attitude of the past was gone.
He hoped Senator O’Sullivan would support efforts to enhance the quality of life on Mornington Island and raise it from its Third World status.
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Queensland Country Life, Brisbane29 Jan 2015, by Sally Cripps Blackall
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The community of Gunana houses most of the 1500-strong population of Mornington Island, part of the Wellesley Islands group in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
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Queensland Country Life, Brisbane29 Jan 2015, by Sally Cripps Blackall
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EDITORIAL
A missing link that’s no gameTO use a hackneyed cliche, the NewmanGovernment has given the Gold Coast aClaytons commitment to have the light railsystem linked to heavy rail in time for theCommonwealth Games.
Trust us, it said yesterday, suggestingthe LNP was the only one that could takethe city’s successful stage one of the lightrail to a stage-two extension. But with noactual commitment with a timeline, theGold Coast should not be so easily taken in.
The Government’s record on prepara-tions for the Games in 2018 is less thanexemplary – confirmed by a report fromthe Auditor-General in December thathighlighted cost blowouts, delays and thestartling revelation that there was no singlesource of accountability or authority.
If ever the Government were to bedragged to a firm answer, voters mighthave expected it to have been now, with anelection on Saturday and in light of ourBulletin survey showing that of 1100 GoldCoasters polled, more than 80 per cent be-lieve the light rail-heavy rail connectionmust be made before 2018.
Southport MP Rob Molhoek recogniseshow vital the project is but the leadershipwill only give an indefinite nod, despite itbeing the most important piece of trans-port infrastructure needed for the Gamesand as a legacy to streamline commuting.
This is a project the state also needs.In declaring it can run a world-class
event, Queensland cannot risk a transportmeltdown as international visitors hop offthe trains from Brisbane Airport – only tobe left stranded on the platform because ofthe missing link.
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Gold Coast Bulletin, Gold Coast QLD29 Jan 2015
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Bright future linked to tourism
WHAT THE TOURISM AND TRANSPORTFORUM WANTS:1. No new tourism taxes2. A tourism and transport strategy within12 months.3. Expansion and connection of the GoldCoast light rail to the heavy rail4. More marketing, events and businessevents funding, including funding forTourism and Events Queensland5. A funding model for the South Bankcultural precinct6. Regional resort development revenuere-invested in the region.7. Invest in cruise ship facilities in Bris-bane.WHAT THE LNP IS OFFERING:1. $60 million Queensland First tourismfund to bring world-class sporting events,major cultural events and film productions
to the state.2. The fund includes $20 million for drivetourism and continuation of the $8 millionAttracting Aviation Investment Fund.WHAT LABOR IS OFFERING:1. A $10 million a year increase in the Tou-rism and Events Queensland budget forfour years.2. Four-year funding guarantee to supportnew and improved major events for thestate.3. A focus on attracting visitors fromemerging tourism markets.4. $100 million to protect the Great BarrierReef and related tourism industries.5. No bed tax.Source: Tourism & Transport Forum’sQueensland Tourism Business Count &Employment Atlas; Tourism and EventsQueensland; LNP; ALP
WANTS AND PROMISES
MAIN PHOTO: The famous coloured sands stand sentinel over the surfing beach at DoubleIsland Point. BELOW: Borumba Dam is a water skiing and fishing Mecca. BOTTOM:Gympie’s iconic Valley Rattler steam train.
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Gympie Times, Gympie QLD29 Jan 2015
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Figaro, like you’ve never seen before, coming to ProserpineOPERA Queensland is bring-ing musical magic and may-hem to Proserpine on a 13-town and city tour acrossQueensland with The Ad-ventures of Figaro.The show mixes the daz-zling tunes from Rossini’smuch-loved masterpiece TheBarber of Seville with cabaretand vaudeville.The new 90-minute adap-tation, which opens in Too-woomba on March 13, starsJason Barry-Smith as Figaro(the very first celebrity hair-
dresser) and a versatile castof singers and musicians,while well-known actor BrianProbets makes his operadebut as the frazzled servantFiorello – our unreliablenarrator – amid a number ofcolourful characters.Designed to fit into smallvenues, festivals, pop-upspaces and pubs, and sungin English, the show is adapt-ed and directed by OperaQueensland’s Lindy Hume toa new musical arrangementby the Queensland Symphony
Orchestra’s Craig AllisterYoung. The Adventures ofFigaro’s versatile cast ofeight play multiple charac-ters and improvise comicscenarios that will see theaction being played amid theaudience at times.Director Lindy Hume saidshe had approached Rossi-ni’s work with irreverenceand shamelessly exploitedevery Spanish cliché, fromthe bright orange design, toManuel from Fawlty Towers’accent, to Pedro Almodovar’s
manic energy.“Our completely un-pre-cious approach to presentingthis opera owes much to thehilariously chaotic premiereof the original Barber ofSeville, in which everythingthat could go wrong did gowrong, and the diversity ofthe audiences and venueswe'll be playing acrossQueensland.“I'm really excited to bedirecting this terrific cast ina pared-down, high-energyversion of this fantastic
musical comedy,” she said.In a special treat the showwill also feature as part ofthe Gold Coast’s BleachFestival on March 14 and 15,taking over balconies, foot-paths and facades and evok-ing the streets of Seville aspart of Feast on Bleach onSaturday evening and asOpera at Paradise Point onSunday evening.“In this new production,audiences will see JasonBarry-Smith in fine form asFigaro who, having quit his
servitude, has reinventedhimself as a smooth-talkingentrepreneur catering to hisclients’ every need in fash-ion-conscious Seville,” MsHume said.“Joining him on stage willbe Jaewoo Kim, MatthewBroadbent and AshleighCrane. Audiences will delightin Figaro’s adventures andsome of the most infectious,bubbly music ever written.”Adventures of Figaroshows at Proserpine Enter-tainment Centre on August 8.
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Daily Mercury, Mackay QLD29 Jan 2015
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