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• Cairns Labor MP Rob Pyne raises local govt inquiry again for ...

  

  Cairns Labor MP Rob Pyne first raised the issue in October, prompting deputy premier Jackie Trad to respond in Parliament that the established procedures were enough. Cairns Labor MP Rob Pyne has refused to abandon his crusade to reform how local government complaints are dealt with, breaking party ranks to once again raise the issue in Parliament.Mr Pyne first raised the issue in October, prompting deputy premier Jackie Trad to respond in Parliament that the ..

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• Cairns Labor MP Rob Pyne raises local govt inquiry again for ...

  

  Cairns Labor MP Rob Pyne first raised the issue in October, prompting deputy premier Jackie Trad to respond in Parliament that the established procedures were enough. Cairns Labor MP Rob Pyne has refused to abandon his crusade to reform how local government complaints are dealt with, breaking party ranks to once again raise the issue in Parliament.Mr Pyne first raised the issue in October, prompting deputy premier Jackie Trad to respond in Parliament that the ..

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• Northern Australia Minister told not to visit Cairns for 'sightseeing tour'

  

  Minister for Northern Australia Josh Frydenberg will visit Cairns on Friday. PICTURE: MICK TSIKAS/AAPTHE  State Government is growing increasingly frustrated over the lack of direction from its federal counter-parts about how to access the $5 billion Northern Australia infrastructure fund.Treasurer and Member for Mulgrave Curtis Pitt raised concerns in State Parliament yesterday, saying the conga line of senior federal ministers responsible for Northern Australia was becoming hard to follow.“I w..

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• Vaccination rates for Kuranda one of the lowest in Queensland

  

  CONCERN: Kuranda has the second-lowest vaccination rate for one-year-olds in the state – behind Maleny on the Sunshine Coast – and ranks as the worst in Queensland among two-year-olds. PICTURE: iSTOCKLOW immunisation rates in Kuranda could cause an outbreak of preventable disease as new figures reveal the rainforest town is one of the worst in the state for childhood vaccinations. The low rate has parents like Ruben Breuer calling on other Kuranda families to immunise their children.The town, we..

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• View from Westminster - Alun Cairns MP

  

  DO YOU know anyone that plays Saturday football in Barry and the Vale? I imagine you have had the opportunity to get to know them better this winter as a ball has hardly been kicked. We have had a very wet but mild winter, but unfortunately the Vale football league fixtures across the Vale have been obliterated due to postponement after postponement of matches. Many coaches and players have told me that this season has been the worst for a number of years. Teams and players have bec..

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• Qld lockouts slammed in tourist mecca

  Queensland's newly-passed lockout laws have ruffled feathers in Cairns, where critics fear the measures will hurt the vital backpacker economy and increase youth unemployment.Cairns' Chamber of Commerce and lobby group Advance Cairns also say the changes, which includes 2am last-drinks calls at most venues from July before lockouts at 1am next February, fail to acknowledge numerous local measures already in place to reduce alcohol-fuelled violence.The implementation of 24-hour CCTV, on-the-spot..

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• Far North Queensland dive industry boss slams law firm's calls for ...

  

  Association of Marine Park Tourism Operators executive director Col McKenzie says further regulation on the diving industry is unnecessary. PICTURE: SUPPLIEDCRITICISM by a major law firm of Cairns snorkelling ­operators’ safety standards has erupted into a verbal brawl.Specialist litigator Shine Lawyers has called for stricter controls on snorkelling following the death of a tourist on the Great Barrier Reef this week.But the call has been slammed by a Far North tourism boss who says the industr..

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