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- Tackling binge drinking in remote communities
- Transitioning to the Renewable Energy Bonus Scheme
- The future of our hospitals: Funded nationally, run locally
- Tax taskforce supports local businesses
- Insulation workers in Cairns to receive government assistance
- One week left to take advantage apprenticeship bonus
- Decision on funding for environmental research welcomed
- Internet Boost for Small Business
- LNP can't deliver road solution
- Injinoo school celebrates
- Mookai Rosie set to expand services
- Celebrating the 2nd anniversary of the Apology
- Safety inspections for homes with foil insulation
- Liberals want to stall Bruce Highway upgrade
- New & improved aircraft and mental health support service for Royal Flying Doctors
- Rewarding Indigenous students for slam dunking at school
- Strong response from Cairns local businesses to tax taskforce visit
- Resource supports employment of people with mental illness
- Parents urged to keep back-to-school receipts
- Major boost for local tourism
- Site of multi-million GP Super Clinic revealed
- New partnerships improve education in the Tropical North
- Specialist Tax Office support team flies in to assist Cairns businesses
- Playgroups in the Cape receive govt support
- Caring for our country: Local groups benefit from federal funding
- Official commissioning celebrates new name for bridge over Mulgrave River
- Horn Island airport upgrade
- Government delivers aviation reform for FNQ
- CASA officially open on Horn Island
- Safety upgrades on highway continue
- Rudd Government is keeping Cairns working
- Exxon Mobil announce go ahead on LNG project in PNG
- $456,000 boost for financial counselling services in Far North Queensland
- 45 local organisations receive Volunteer Grants
- International Volunteer Day: Recognising our local volunteers
- Liberals delay climate change action
- Australian Govt welcomes announcement of Jetstar Cairns-Osaka flights
- Apprentice Kickstart Kicks Off
- Rebuilding the region
- Welfare reform welcomed
- Jetstar deal welcome
- One stop shop for Cairns
- Everybody’s Business: remote community stores
- Rudd Govt delivers $10.8m for wet tropics
- Cummings employment report reinforces need for govt’s economic stimulus
- New learning facilities opened today for Isabella students
- Govt strengthening Tropical North Qld's web presence
- Honouring the fallen on Remembrance Day
- Trinity Beach roundabout upgrade to improve safety for cyclists and motorcyclists
- Government takes action to help Cairns businesses
- Stimulus package key to fighting unemployment in Cairns
- Government urges Cairns companies to kickstart apprenticeships
- Cairns transport options released for community consultation
- Additional investment of $1.5m for NPA College to build new trade training centre
- Way cleared for multi-purpose community centre at Cooktown
- 100 affordable rental homes for Far North Queensland
- JCU Cairns wins $1.38m for health research funding
- RDA to bring fresh approach to FNQ, Cape & Torres
- Kowanyama people's native title rights recognised
- Cooktown awarded $300,000 for bike paths
- Turnour catches up with Tagai
- Government stimulus to Kickstart Apprenticeships
- $3.8 million heritage investment supports Qld jobs
- Delivering social housing in Far North Queensland
- Liberals deny climate change is hurting our reef
- Local businesses given family-friendly boost
- Turnour & the Taipans team up to help the hospital
- Cairns Local Employment Co-ordinator Appointed
- Rudd Government supporting cancer patients
- Cairns local business success story assisted by the Small Business Tax Break
- Local jobs for Cairns construction industry
- Building houses for Defence families
- Unemployment figures highlight the need for continued stimulus
- Banana industry support for tough import conditions
- Telecommunications reforms welcomed
- Learn to live greener
- Help for people with mental illness in Aurukun
- New legislation to benefit local artists one step closer
- Rudd Govt stimulus to keep TNQ working
- Battle for Australia
- Supporting Legacy
- Official commissioning celebrates Peninsula Developmental Road upgrade
- $37m injection into local primary schools
- Indigenous ranger jobs help conserve the Cape
- Local organisations receive praise at the highest level
- Vietnam Veterans' Day
- Government investment sowing seeds of change
- Local builders start work on local school
- Welcoming a McGrath Breast Care Nurse for Cairns
- Boost for Mossman Gorge training & jobs
- New mental health service launched in Cairns
- Pacific Islands Forum: Office Opens in Cairns
- Rudd Govt to build new child care centre in Cairns
- Rudd Govt names Cairns a Priority Employment Area
- Rudd Govt invests $50m in fight to save the Reef
- Historic school modernisation program for FNQ
- Torres hones in on Canberra
- $10m investment in Cairns TAFE to keep FNQ working
- Better Access for Remote Communities in Far North Queensland
- Coen & Lockhart programs funded for another year
- Delivering good news to the Neighbourhood Centre
- $45m for local primary schools to support local jobs
- Infrastructure investment for Cairns TAFE
- Building houses and skills in remote Mapoon
- Promoting local seafood
- More local schools granted infrastructure funding
- Health boost for Cairns
- More GP's, Health Workers for FNQ Indigenous Communities
- Clarity for fishers in the Coral Sea
- Small Business Tax Break boosted again
- Incorrect: $1b cut to agriculture budget
- Leichhardt busy with federal projects
- Nation Building for Recovery
- Leichhardt residents win from health budget boost
- Boost to after hours GP services in Cairns
- Huge boost for Cairns economy
- Rudd Govt delivers new emergency management centre for Cairns
- $34m education money on its way to the Tropical North
- LNP out of touch on redistribution in Leichhardt
- April ‘PriceWatch’ Results
- Tropical North shares in disaster protection funding
- New member of local authority
- Certainty for families as Smithfield ABC Learning Centre's future assured
- Construction begins on new accommodation for Indigenous mums
- $28 million for the Torres Strait Major Infrastructure Program
- 66 local schools to begin upgrades
- $1.27m boost gives local students access to world-class education
- Smithfield State High receives ‘Investing In Our Schools’ funding
- Come one, come all for Mulgrave River Bridge celebrations!
- Rudd Govt delivers nearly 2000 computers local schools in the Tropical North
- Rudd Govt delivers 144 new affordable rental homes in Cairns
- $1.3m for five local black spots to be fixed
- Research to support the Queensland tourism industry
- Record funding for our local raods
- Inquiry heads to Western Cape & Torres Strait
- Increased flights good news for Cairns
- World first for Mossman
- Horn Island air raids, 67 years on
- Cape York to benefit from Federal Government’s digital investment
- Boost to agribusiness training at Kuranda
- Save money on your energy bill
- New $1.3m service coming to Cairns
- Hockey claims we’ve never been richer
- Local elders commemorate 1 year anniversary of the Apology
- EMDG Approvals for TTNQ Welcomed
- Cairns to be part of first ever national youTHINK event
- Turnbull says NO to local school upgrades
- $42b Nation Building and Jobs Plan: Protecting our local economy
- Tully road upgrade comes out on top
- Boarding boost for Indigenous students
- New accommodation facility for Indigenous mothers
- Work starts on $33m infrastructure project at JCU
- Cairns Locals Honoured by Minister with Community Service Award
- Cairns selected to host international forum
- Australian Government tourism package continues to deliver for TNQ
- Cairns to roll out the welcome mat for Chinese tourists
- Local volunteers receive helping hand
- Final Instalment of Tropical North Queensland's Tourism Package Announced
- Christmas PriceWatch Results Revealed
- Historic emission trading scheme one step closer
- Cairns businesses and community need to get behind the Taipans
- James Cook University leading the world in Tropical Expertise
- Government calling for proposals to establish new facility
- Welcome Support for Small Business
- Sound Future for ABC in the Tropical North
- Massive crane to help deliver Mulgrave River bridge sooner
- Inquiry into Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Community Stores
- Electronic Medicare claiming available in Cairns
- Major Bruce Highway upgrade closer as planning study starts
- One Year Report Card
- Helping Build the Global Market for Tropical North Queensland
- Tackling Binge Drinking Locally
- New visa begins to reap rewards
- Councils in the Tropical North to share in $300m local infrastructure fund
- Federal & Local Governments Working Together
- Funding Support for Weipa Defence Families
- Local doctor wins award
- Government takes action on reef hot spots
- Economic Security Strategy
- PriceWatch Launched
- School to Work Pathways for Cape York Indigenous students
- Tackling flood danger on the Bruce Highway
- New destination roadmap for Tropical North Queensland
- Turnour welcomes support for new parents
- Turnour: The first Labor MP to speak before parliament on same-sex legislation
- New Liberal leader ignores over 10,000 pensioners in the Tropical North
- Over 100 new beds for Cairns
- "Just Think" continues to attract support
- Local business scoops award
- Barrier Reef's Rescue Ramped Up
- Honouring our ex-servicemen
- Turnour joins Australian Hearing for community open day
- Govt seeking input into new indigenous justice body
- Minister rolls out first round of Tropical North Qld tourism support
- Helping volunteers pay their petrol bills
- Greenhouse gas ban for Reef
- Minister releases new tourism data to boost Leichhardt
- Turnour: It’s the bank’s turn now
- Kids to grow & cook their own food
- Rudd Govt delivers $34.9m to local councils in the Tropical North
- Healthy & Active at Tagai!
- Federal funding windfall for Tropical North arts and culture
- Pensioners can have a say
- Mobile Office in Mossman
- Building a better southern access for Cairns residents
- Progress on new child care centre for Weipa
- Turnour’s Time in Torres
- Torres’ turn to have their say
- Poruma Island to receive $7,000 for new helipad
- Road black spot to be fixed in Leichhardt
- Volunteer group receives federal cash
- Rudd Govt delivers $700K for Lockhart River training centre
- Additional Support for Tropical North’s Veterans
- Rudd Government supporting horticulture development in the Torres Strait
- Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme a critical step in protecting the region
- Rudd Govt to deliver Tagai tradies
- Marine Skills Training Centre finally coming to Cairns
- Rudd Govt boosts child care in the Cape
- National Diabetes Week
- Health Grants Top $200K for Tropical North
- Locals to Fight Binge Drinking
- Saluting Their Service
- Local Input into Federal Tourism Committee
- A Win For Weipa Airport
- Government Moves Swiftly to Service Cape Communities
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- Employment figures highlight need for economic stimulus and to diversify Cairns economy
- Yarrabah Store closure highlights the need for urgent land tenure reforms in Indigenous communities
- Polls apart on the real issues
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- Environmental Debate Heats Up
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