Policing in Cairns
AFTER reading some of the comments in the paper recently about crime, intoxicated and drugged people in the Cairns area no wonder we don’t have many tourists coming these days.
It is supposed to be tourist season and the place is dead.
Maybe word has got around who would want to visit Cairns as tourists and locals do not feel safe.
The behaviour of these people in Cairns is atrocious.
We need more police and council needs to step up, they are not enforcing any of these regulations that they are putting up signs for, it's a joke.
The council needs to stop spending money on useless projects that they think are going to attract tourists because the way people carry on in Cairns no one is going to want to come and visit. Margeurite Williams, Holloways Beach amounts to absorb calcium effectively to get stronger bones and maintain muscle strength. He suggests we all need between 10 and 30 minutes a day. So can we achieve these levels of vitamin D and still slip slop slap? I just wish Cairns would approve a nudist beach so some of us could get a good hit of sunshine legally. Joy Watson, Clifton Beach shown for those attending the exhibition. Sadly, it’s not a one-off. The quality in terms of the art at CAG has increased in terms of nationally renowned artists presenting there but the quality in terms of events has drastically stooped.
Attendees - who I might add are the ratepayers who fund much of the operations of the gallery - no longer are given access to the space available such as the balconies in the cooler months as we were in the past.
The bar is perhaps the worst at any art gallery and feels more like a triage ward in a hospital. The food is cheap and scungy at best.
What future does the gallery have for being a welcoming place to go and enjoy oneself as well as the art on display?
Art should be presented as a holistic experience, especially when going to the lengths of holding launch parties.
As such, the designated space of the gallery where visitors are expected to congregate and converse should be on par with the standard of the work on display. Jack Wilkie-Jans, Earlville 1839: Hong Kong is taken by British in
war with China. 1942: Thirteen Japanese planes are shot down in the 24th raid on Darwin in World War II. 2002: Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe unexpectedly dissolves his cabinet and ousts moderates in a move officials say is related to his controversial program to seize land from white farmers and redistribute it to landless black people. 2007: A horse brought in from the northern hemisphere shows clinical signs of equine influenza at Sydney’s Eastern Creek quarantine centre, sparking a widespread outbreak of EI that stops racing and equestrian events in NSW and Queensland. 2018: The Queen issues a message of support and a donation to Australian farmers as the drought takes its “immense toll” (above).