Recovery Hub to relocate for easier access
In an effort to make recovery support more accessible to floodaffected residents from Cairns’ northern beaches, the Community Recovery Hub at Trinity Bay Sports Hall will relocate to Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park in Smithfield on Saturday, January 6.
Division 8 Councillor Rhonda Coghlan said relocating the hub would make services more accessible to residents without cars.
“As of (Saturday), the community hub at Trinity Bay will be stepping back and opening at Tjapukai and that is a real plus for the community, because largely, Holloways Beach, Machans Beach and Trinity Bay, the people of Caravonica and Yorkeys Knob, don’t have cars, they don’t have transport,” Ms Coghlan said.
“A lot of public transport isn’t available, particularly on weekends and this will make it much easier for those residents to come along and get help finding out what grants and assistance is available to them.”
However, Barron River MP Craig Crawford said most TransLink and Kinetic buses were up and running again.
“There still may be some that are out of action due staffing and some of the roads but I think people just
need to keep an eye on the apps and the websites for the most up to date on that one,” he said.
Mr Crawford said the road to
recovery would be a long one.
“The recovery phase is going to have to be led locally here. We know that certainly Queensland is under a
lot of pressure from a recovery perspective right now, particularly with what’s happening down south,” Mr Crawford said.
“We know we have excellent staff here that are rolling up their sleeves right now and getting on with it and we’ve still got a lot of work to do.”