Airlines schedule more flights to Cairns to meet demand and other top stories.

• Airlines schedule more flights to Cairns to meet demand

  

  Aircraft at Cairns Airport, QANTAS Boeing 737-800 registration number VH-VYG. PICTURE: MARC McCORMACKAIRLINES are adding nearly 70,000 seats on aircraft flying to Cairns until the end of June.Forward schedules show 1.33 million seats in April, this month and in June, a 5.4 per cent rise over last year.Cairns Airport chief executive Kevin Brown said domestic passenger numbers continued to grow during April compared to last year, despite Easter falling in March.“We welcome the ongoing commitment b..

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• Aurukun teachers evacuated to Cairns - Yahoo7

  

  By Melissa Grant and Shae McDonald - AAP on May 26, 2016, 6:44 pm The quality of schooling in Aurukun has been called into question, with calls for an urgent review of an education model a federal MP has described as a failure.The troubled indigenous community's only school has closed for at least six weeks after the last of 20 teachers were removed from the northern Queensland township on Thursday amid fears for their personal safety.The evacuation, the second in two weeks,..

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• Cairns Police pause for a cause

  

  Happy to consume a cake for a cause Local police took a moment today to share a cuppa and a cupcake to help raise funds for the Biggest Morning Tea, all in aid of raising funds for cancer research and prevention. Police officers, staff members and our Volunteers in Policing (VIPs) threw on their aprons and fired up their ovens to cook up a storm last night. Just some of the treats on offer It didn’t take long for all of the delicious goodies to be snapped up. They went so fast that I didn’t eve..

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