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Cairns - Tropical North Queensland

17º South, 145º East
 

   Cairns (population over 165,000 and growing to an expected 223,000 by 2031) is the principal city of FNQ (area 377,000 km² - regional population 278,000). In 100 years it has been transformed  from a tiny, remote village of 4,000 people into one of  Australia's largest (and most beautiful) cities.

   The indigenous people - the Australian Aborigines and Melanesian Torres Strait Islanders - (who preceded the Anglo-Celtic and European migrant settlement by thousands of years) comprise 11% of FNQ's  exotic, colourful and multicultural  population.

   Over the last two centuries Australians have married into many  Caucasian and Asian migrant cultures. Today, our population and lifestyle is truly cosmopolitan - a vibrant mix of colour and exotic gene pools. FNQ's urbane sophistication derives from the fascinating history of the area's original inhabitants followed by the  more recent history of exploration, colonisation, and migration - while the whole of Australia has been Nirvana, throughout the decades, for the "boat people" in us all.

   Cairns is host to a number of indigenous art and craft enterprises as well as  the world famous Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park - right next door to the internationally successful Skyrail Rainforest Cableway.

   The FNQ economy has two chief exports - Sugar and Tourism. Other main industries include: Agriculture (sugar cane, bananas, tropical fruits, beef, dairy etc); Mining; Fishing and Manufacturing (food processing and engineering)

   As a mining domicile Cairns supports operations throughout Queensland as well as in Irian Jaya and Papua New Guinea - our near neighbours to the North. Cairns role as a major servicing and fly-in/fly-out centre for the booming mining sector in northern Australia continues to grow on the back of high global commodity prices

   Cairns' International Airport is the closest to the "outback", and links Australia to Asia and the rest of the world. Qantas' no frills airline, Jetstar, continues to grow and expand its routes in the region, and a hungry Tiger Airlines should further boost tourist numbers once the  Singapore based airline bounces back after its recent regulatory setback

   International visitors to the area continue to grow with emphasis shifting, in tune with  a global economic change  in the balance of power,  from the North to our phenomenally successful  near neighbor (in just one lifetime)  - China

   The whole Coastal area of Cairns, and its hinterland - the Atherton Tablelands, is an adventurers' playground in paradise.

   The world renowned James Cook University at Smithfield, and a number of International Language schools,  further increase  overseas  visitors to Cairns and the Far North.

   Like other "Top End" cities Cairns is a cosmopolitan, vibrant and an exciting "can do" place to live and visit. As such it attracts enterprising residents and tourists from all over the world.

   We have been honoured to preserve our priceless dual assets of the world's Heritage Listed Great Barrier Reef and Wet Tropics. 

                                                                    
                                  

We can be contacted by post at  Box 532  Edge Hill, Queensland, Australia 4870
Phone  ( mobiles 0409559753/0438550753)