PRIME Minister Malcolm Turnbull has today promised a $24 million upgrade of the Cairns Marine Precinct, which would transform it into one of the country’s leading maintenance hubs. Mr Turnbull touched ...

Together, they will deepen skills, secure long‑term jobs and strengthen resilience to 2050. The hospital expansion will bring more care closer to home, adding capacity, cutting wait times and ...

The Cairns Maritime Careers Expo will return for the third year at Cairns Cruising Yacht Squadron on Saturday after two successful iterations successfully cemented the event as the one of the largest ...

An ambitious plan to draw hundreds of workers to two critical Far North industries has been revealed ahead of our Future Cairns event. A new Jobs Queensland workforce plan has mapped out a strategy to ...

But the LNP has yet to chart a course for the long-awaited common user facility, with “no timeline” set for when a business case will be put forward by Ports North. Featuring a 5000 tonne shiplift, ...

Far North Queensland’s coastline is set to receive a major safety boost with the rollout of multiple new marine rescue vessels being touted as “the best possible equipment”. The $22m investment into ...

The farsighted document goes public on Friday with an unequivocal call for major spending across the precinct and the industries that use it. It has been a long time coming – Deputy Premier Steven ...

A new Jobs Queensland workforce plan has mapped out a strategy to attract an extra 538 workers to the aviation sector by the end of the 2025-26 FY, marking an increase of 21 per cent on 2021/22 levels ...

The $22m investment into new marine rescue vessels for the state includes watercraft for the far northern communities of Thursday Island, Weipa, Port Douglas, Mornington Island, Cardwell, Tully and ...