Kids have a ball at indoor activity centres
Cyclone risk our biggest problem – in theory
GLOOMY skies and wet conditions might be keeping the kids indoors these school holidays but there was little excuse for being bored with plenty of undercover activities on offer around the city.
Cairns Zoom and Inflatable World have welcomed hundreds of little ones keen to cuddle koalas or just let off some pent-up energy.
Cairns North parents Jeevan Jyoti and Rajesh Kumar have brought her daughter Reet Chaudhary, 4, to the Inflatable World at Cairns Indoor Sports Centre for two days in a row.
“I bring her here on the holidays because she really loves it and there is some day care so she is looked after,” she said.
“She loves jumping on the car and on other structures.
“When I woke up on Sunday I wanted to take her to the IT IS 1.5 times more expensive to insure in Cairns that the region’s southern counterparts.
The Cairns community debated the high cost of insurance premiums in Far North Queensland during a forum hosted by the Insurance Council of Australia last night.
Speaker Karl Sullivan, Esplanade but we had no other options – we just came inside, I had a cup of tea and I can do whatever I want and she enjoys herself.”
Willow Sartori, 6, said the best part of his time at the indoor activity centre was playing cricket with inflatable cricket bats. ICA’s risk and disaster planning general manager, said insurance premiums were riskbased and in Cairns there was a higher risk of cyclone and flood damage.
Participants questioned the cost based on these risks when there hadn’t been a cyclone in Cairns for a long time, but there were flood or weather events in the south every other year. “I made a few runs,” he said. “My little brother was throwing the balls at me.”
Mum Bre Capell said the family visited Cairns every holidays and Inflatable World was a must-see attraction.
“This holidays is the busiest I’ve ever seen the place,” she said.
Mr Sullivan said the actual damage total to individual homes was less than that when it came to cyclone damage.
ICA communications and media relations general manager Campbell Fuller said “why am I paying so much?” was a common question.
“If you look at the actual figures in North Queensland it is actually less expensive than other parts of Australia,” he said. This included in southern Queensland and in Western Australia near the Pilbara.
The Cairns forum at the RSL Club was the first of seven being held from Cairns down to Rockhampton.
They were aimed at giving people a better understanding of their own insurance, the risks associated with their own region and the way insurance works.