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Cairns

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Cairns is a city in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. [1]

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A-League

The A-League is a professional men's soccer league run by Football Federation Australia (FFA).

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ABC Classic FM

ABC Classic FM is a classical music radio station available in Australia, and internationally online.

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ABC Far North

ABC Far North is an ABC Local Radio station based in Cairns.

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ABC News (radio)

ABC News is an Australian Broadcasting Corporation 24-hour news radio service.

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Aboriginal title

Aboriginal title is a common law doctrine that the land rights of indigenous peoples to customary tenure persist after the assumption of sovereignty under settler colonialism.

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Adam Sarota

Adam Tomek Sarota (born 28 December 1988) is an Australian footballer who plays as a central midfielder.

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Adelaide Steamship Co Ltd Building, Cairns

Adelaide Steamship Company Ltd Building is a heritage-listed office building at 37 Lake Street, Cairns, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Aeroglen

Aeroglen is a coastal suburb of Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

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AFL Cairns

The Australian Football League Cairns is a semi-professional Australian rules football league that includes clubs from the Cairns region in Queensland, Australia.

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Alice Springs

Alice Springs (Arrernte: Mparntwe) is the third-largest town in the Northern Territory of Australia.

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Allies of World War II

The Allies of World War II, called the United Nations from the 1 January 1942 declaration, were the countries that together opposed the Axis powers during the Second World War (1939–1945).

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Anzac Day

Anzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand that broadly commemorates all Australians and New Zealanders "who served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations" and "the contribution and suffering of all those who have served".

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Armidale-class patrol boat

The Armidale class is a class of patrol boats built for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).

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Aron Baynes

Aron John Baynes (born 9 December 1986) is a New Zealand-born Australian professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Asciano Limited

Asciano Limited was an Australian freight logistics company, operating in railway freight and shipping.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Atherton Tableland

The Atherton Tableland is a fertile plateau which is part of the Great Dividing Range in Queensland, Australia.

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Atherton, Queensland

Atherton is a town and locality on the Atherton Tablelands within the Tablelands Region, Far North Queensland, Australia.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Australia national soccer team

The Australian national soccer team represents Australia in international men's soccer.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) founded in 1929 is Australia's national broadcaster, funded by the Australian Federal Government but specifically independent of Government and politics in the Commonwealth.

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Australian Bureau of Statistics

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is the independent statistical agency of the Government of Australia.

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Australian Hydrographic Service

The Australian Hydrographic Service (formerly known as the Royal Australian Navy Hydrographic Service) is the Australian Commonwealth Government agency responsible for providing hydrographic services that meet Australia's obligations under the SOLAS convention and the national interest; enabling safe navigation, maritime trade and supporting protection of the marine environment.

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Australian Labor Party

The Australian Labor Party (ALP, also Labor, was Labour before 1912) is a political party in Australia.

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Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, or simply called Aussie rules, football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of eighteen players on an oval-shaped field, often a modified cricket ground.

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Babinda

Babinda is a small town and locality in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Bald Hills, Queensland

Bald Hills is the northernmost suburb of the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

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Balikpapan-class landing craft heavy

The Balikpapan class is a ship class of eight heavy landing craft (officially Landing Craft, Heavy or LCH).

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Barlow Park

Barlow Park is a multi-sports facility and stadium in Parramatta Park, Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

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Barrier Reef Hotel

Barrier Reef Hotel is a heritage-listed hotel at Abbott Street, Cairns, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Barron Gorge Hydroelectric Power Station

The Barron Gorge Hydroelectric Power Station (or Barron Gorge Hydro) in Queensland, Australia is an electricity power station commissioned in 1963 with a maximum capacity of.

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Barron River (Queensland)

The Barron River (Indigenous: Bibhoora) is located on the Atherton Tablelands inland from Cairns in northern Queensland, Australia.

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Battle of the Coral Sea

The Battle of the Coral Sea, fought from 4 to 8 May 1942, was a major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia, taking place in the Pacific Theatre of World War II.

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Bayview Heights, Queensland

Bayview Heights is a southern suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Ben Halloran

Benjamin "Ben" Halloran (born 14 June 1992) is an Australian international football (soccer) player who plays as a winger for V-Varen Nagasaki in the Japanese J1 League.

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Bentley Park, Queensland

Bentley Park is a suburb of Cairns within the local government area of Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Bishop's House, Cairns

Bishop's House is a heritage-listed former Roman Catholic monastery and now bishop's residence at Abbott Street, Cairns, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Bob Katter

Robert Carl Katter (born 22 May 1945) is an Australian politician who has been a member of the House of Representatives since 1993.

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Bob Manning (mayor)

Robert "Bob" Charles Manning OAM (born 1945) is the mayor of the Cairns Regional Council, Queensland, Australia.

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Bolands Centre

Bolands Centre is a heritage-listed department store at Lake Street, Cairns, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Brenton Thwaites

Brenton Thwaites (born 10 August 1989) is an Australian actor who is known for his portrayal of Luke Gallagher in the Fox8 teen drama series Slide (2011), and later Stu Henderson in the soap opera Home and Away (2011–2012).

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Brinsmead, Queensland

Brinsmead is a suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Far North Queensland, Australia.

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Brisbane

Brisbane is the capital of and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland, and the third most populous city in Australia.

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Bruce Highway

The Bruce Highway is a major highway in Queensland, Australia.

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Bungalow, Queensland

Bungalow is an inner suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Bureau of Meteorology

The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) is an Executive Agency of the Australian Government responsible for providing weather services to Australia and surrounding areas.

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Cairns Airport

Cairns Airport is an international airport in Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

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Cairns Bulletin

The Cairns Bulletin is an independent newspaper in circulation in Cairns.

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Cairns Central

Cairns Central Shopping Centre in Far North Queensland, Australia is Cairns' biggest shopping centre.

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Cairns Chinatown Building

The Cairns Chinatown Building is a heritage-listed commercial building at 99 Grafton Street, Cairns, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Cairns City Council Chambers

Cairns City Council Chambers is a heritage-listed former town hall and now council library at 151 Abbott Street, Cairns, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Cairns City, Queensland

Cairns City is the suburb at the centre of Cairns in the local government area of Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Cairns Control Room

Cairns Control Room is a heritage-listed military building at Grafton Street, Cairns, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Cairns Convention Centre

The Cairns Convention Centre, selected the World’s Best Congress Centre in 2014 and 2004, is a convention and entertainment centre in Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

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Cairns Court House Complex

Cairns Court House Complex is a heritage-listed site incorporating a former courthouse (now a hotel) and a former public administration building (now an art gallery) at 38 - 40 Abbott Street, Cairns, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Cairns Customs House

Cairns Customs House is a heritage-listed former customs house and now restaurant at 6A-8A Abbott Street, Cairns, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Cairns FC

Cairns FC, previously known as FNQ FC Heat, is an Australian semi-professional soccer club based in the regional city of Cairns, in the far north of Queensland.

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Cairns Hospital

Cairns Hospital, known as the Cairns Base Hospital between 1932 and 2013, is the largest major hospital in Far North Queensland, Australia.

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Cairns Masonic Temple

Cairns Masonic Temple is a heritage-listed masonic temple at 8 Minnie Street, Cairns, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Cairns North, Queensland

Cairns North is a coastal suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Cairns railway station

Cairns railway station is the terminus of the North Coast line from Brisbane.

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Cairns Region

The Cairns Region is a local government area in Far North Queensland, Queensland, Australia, centred on the regional centre of Cairns.

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Cairns School of Arts

Cairns School of Arts is a heritage-listed former school of arts and now the Cairns Museum at 93-105 Lake Street, Cairns City, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Cairns Taipans

The Cairns Taipans are an Australian professional basketball team based in Cairns, Queensland.

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Cairns Technical College and High School Building

Cairns Technical College and High School Building is a heritage-listed state school at Sheridan Street, Cairns North, Cairns, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Cairns War Memorial

Cairns War Memorial is a heritage-listed memorial at The Esplanade, Cairns, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Cairns Wharf Complex

Cairns Wharf Complex is a heritage-listed wharf at Wharf Street, Cairns, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Cairns-to-Kuranda railway line

The Cairns-to-Kuranda Railway is a heritage-listed railway line from the Cairns Region to the Shire of Mareeba, both in Queensland, Australia.

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Canberra

Canberra is the capital city of Australia.

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Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs

The Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Belmore, a suburb in the Canterbury-Bankstown region of Sydney.

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Cape York Peninsula

Cape York Peninsula is a large remote peninsula located in Far North Queensland, Australia.

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Captain Cook Highway

Captain Cook Highway is a short Queensland highway that starts in Cairns and ends in Mossman, where it joins Mossman-Daintree Road, which continues to Daintree.

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Caravonica, Queensland

Caravonica is a suburb of Cairns in the Carirns Region, Far North Queensland, Australia, approximately from the City Centre.

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Castleford Tigers

The Castleford Tigers are a rugby league club in Castleford, West Yorkshire, England, that competes in the Super League, the top-level professional rugby league club competition in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Catamaran

A catamaran (informally, a "cat") is a multi-hulled watercraft featuring two parallel hulls of equal size.

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Cazaly's Stadium

Cazaly's Stadium is a sports stadium in Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

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Central business district

A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business centre of a city.

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Central Hotel, Cairns

Central Hotel is a heritage-listed former hotel and now shopping centre at 39 - 49 Lake Street, Cairns, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Central Queensland University

Central Queensland University (alternatively known as CQUniversity) is an Australian dual sector university based in Queensland.

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Charlie Dixon (Australian footballer)

Charlie Dixon (born 23 September 1990) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year, usually known as the Spring Festival in modern China, is an important Chinese festival celebrated at the turn of the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar.

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Christine Anu

Christine Anu (born 15 March 1970) is an Australian pop singer and actress.

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City of Brisbane

The City of Brisbane is a local government area that has jurisdiction over the inner portion of the metropolitan area of Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, Australia.

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City of Cairns

The City of Cairns was a local government area centred on the Far North Queensland city of Cairns.

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Clifton Beach, Queensland

Clifton Beach is a beachside suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Climate

Climate is the statistics of weather over long periods of time.

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Colonialism

Colonialism is the policy of a polity seeking to extend or retain its authority over other people or territories, generally with the aim of developing or exploiting them to the benefit of the colonizing country and of helping the colonies modernize in terms defined by the colonizers, especially in economics, religion and health.

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Copperlode Falls Dam

Copperlode Falls Dam or Lake Morris is a fresh water reservoir dam in Lamb Range, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia, servicing the city of Cairns.

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Coral Sea

The Coral Sea is a marginal sea of the South Pacific off the northeast coast of Australia, and classified as an interim Australian bioregion.

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County of Nares

The county of Nares is a cadastral division of Queensland which contains the city of Cairns, Innisfail and most of the Atherton Tableland.

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Courtenay Dempsey

Courtenay Dempsey (born 28 August 1987) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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Craig Crawford (Australian politician)

Craig Daryl Crawford (born 17 January 1970) is an Australian politician.

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Creationism

Creationism is the religious belief that the universe and life originated "from specific acts of divine creation",Gunn 2004, p. 9, "The Concise Oxford Dictionary says that creationism is 'the belief that the universe and living organisms originated from specific acts of divine creation.'" as opposed to the scientific conclusion that they came about through natural processes.

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Cruise ship

A cruise ship or cruise liner is a passenger ship used for pleasure voyages, when the voyage itself, the ship's amenities, and sometimes the different destinations along the way (i.e., ports of call), are part of the experience.

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Crystal Cascades

The Crystal Cascades is a cascade waterfall on the Freshwater Creek in the Far North region of Queensland, Australia.

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Curtis Pitt

Curtis Warren Pitt (born 1 February 1977) is an Australian politician who has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland since 2009, representing the district of Mulgrave.

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Cyclone Justin

Cyclone Justin was a tropical cyclone of the 1996–97 Australian region cyclone season that caused seven deaths and had a major economic impact in northern Queensland, Australia.

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Cyclone Larry

Severe Tropical Cyclone Larry (RSMC Nadi designation: 15F, JTWC designation: 17P) was a tropical cyclone that made landfall in Australia during the 2005–06 Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone season.

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Cyclone Rona–Frank

Severe Tropical Cyclone Rona–Frank (JTWC designations: 20P, 22P; RSMC Nadi designation: 16F) was the only tropical cyclone to threaten Queensland during the 1998–99 Australian region cyclone season.

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Cyclone Steve

Severe Tropical Cyclone Steve was a tropical cyclone that affected northern Australia from 27 February 2000 until 11 March 2000.

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Cyclone Yasi

Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi was a powerful and destructive tropical cyclone that made landfall in northern Queensland, Australia, causing major damage to the affected areas.

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Daintree National Park

The Daintree rainforest is a national park in Far North Queensland, Australia, northwest of Brisbane and northwest of Cairns.

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Darwin, Northern Territory

Darwin is the capital city of the Northern Territory of Australia.

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Dimbulah, Queensland

, Dimbulah is a town and locality in Far North Queensland, Australia, from Cairns by road, on the Atherton Tableland.

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Direct Factory Outlets

Direct Factory Outlets, abbreviated as DFO, is the name for a no-frills group of discount shopping centres in Australia.

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Division of Kennedy

The Division of Kennedy is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland.

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Division of Leichhardt

The Division of Leichhardt is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland.

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Djabugay

The Djabugay people (also known as Djabuganydji or Tjapukai) are a group of Australian Aborigines who are the original inhabitants of mountains, gorges, lands and waters of a richly forested part of the Great Dividing Range including the Barron Gorge and surrounding areas within the Wet Tropics of Queensland.

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Dr EA Koch Memorial

Dr EA Koch Memorial is a heritage-listed memorial at Abbot Street, Cairns, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Dragon boat

A dragon boat is a human-powered watercraft.

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Dry season

The dry season is a yearly period of low rainfall, especially in the tropics.

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Economic system

An economic system is a system of production, resource allocation and distribution of goods and services within a society or a given geographic area.

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Edmonton, Queensland

Edmonton was an independent township supporting a sugar mill, but is now a suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Electoral district of Barron River

Barron River is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.

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Electoral district of Cairns

Cairns is an electoral district in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in the state of Queensland, Australia.

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Electoral district of Mulgrave (Queensland)

Mulgrave is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.

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Ellis Beach, Queensland

Ellis Beach is a locality in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Esplanade

An esplanade or promenade is a long, open, level area, usually next to a river or large body of water, where people may walk.

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Essendon Football Club

The Essendon Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition.

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Far North Queensland

Far North Queensland, or Tropical North Queensland, is the northernmost part of the state of Queensland, Australia.

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Field hockey

Field hockey is a team game of the hockey family.

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Fishing trawler

A fishing trawler is a commercial fishing vessel designed to operate fishing trawls.

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Flecker Botanical Gardens

Flecker Botanical Gardens is a heritage-listed botanic garden at Collins Avenue, Edge Hill, Cairns, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Flood

A flood is an overflow of water that submerges land that is usually dry.

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Floodplain

A floodplain or flood plain is an area of land adjacent to a stream or river which stretches from the banks of its channel to the base of the enclosing valley walls, and which experiences flooding during periods of high discharge.

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Floriana, Cairns

Floriana is a heritage-listed former private home and now guesthouse at 183-185 The Esplanade, Cairns North, Cairns, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Forsayth, Queensland

Forsayth is a town and locality in the Shire of Etheridge, Far North Queensland, Australia, approximately by road from Cairns.

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Fortuna Düsseldorf

Düsseldorfer Turn- und Sportverein Fortuna 1895 e.V. is a German association football club based in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Frank Farina

Frank Farina OAM (born 5 September 1964 in Darwin, Northern Territory) is an Australian football (soccer) coach and former player who played as a forward.

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Freshwater, Queensland

Freshwater is a suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Gavin Allen

Gavin Allen (born 30 March 1965) is an Australian former rugby league player of the 1980s and 1990s.

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Genealogy

Genealogy (from γενεαλογία from γενεά, "generation" and λόγος, "knowledge"), also known as family history, is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history.

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Gillies Range

The Gillies Range is a mountain range in Queensland, Australia.

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Go card

The go card is an electronic smartcard ticketing system developed by Cubic Corporation and currently used on the TransLink public transport network in South East Queensland.

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Gold Coast Football Club

The Gold Coast Football Club, nicknamed the Suns, is an Australian rules football club based on the Gold Coast, Queensland, which began playing in the Australian Football League (AFL) competition for the first time in 2011.

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Goldsborough, Queensland

Goldsborough is a locality in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Gordonvale, Queensland

Gordonvale is a small sugar-growing town and locality situated on the southern side of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Government of Australia

The Government of the Commonwealth of Australia (also referred to as the Australian Government, the Commonwealth Government, or the Federal Government) is the government of the Commonwealth of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy.

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Government of Queensland

The Government of Queensland, also referred to as the Queensland Government, is the Australian state democratic administrative authority of Queensland.

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Governor of Queensland

The Governor of Queensland is the representative in the state of Queensland of the Queen of Australia.

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Great Barrier Reef

The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over over an area of approximately.

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Great Dividing Range

The Great Dividing Range, or the Eastern Highlands, is Australia's most substantial mountain range and the third longest land-based range in the world.

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Green Island (Queensland)

Green Island (originally Dabuukji) is an island and locality in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Green Star (Australia)

Green Star is a voluntary sustainability rating system for buildings in Australia.

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Guangdong

Guangdong is a province in South China, located on the South China Sea coast.

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Gulf of Carpentaria

The Gulf of Carpentaria is a large, shallow sea enclosed on three sides by northern Australia and bounded on the north by the Arafura Sea (the body of water that lies between Australia and New Guinea).

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Hang gliding

Hang gliding is an air sport or recreational activity in which a pilot flies a light, non-motorised foot-launched heavier-than-air aircraft called a hang glider.

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Herberton, Queensland

Herberton is a town and locality on the Atherton Tableland in Far North Queensland, Australia.

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Herries Private Hospital

Herries Private Hospital is a heritage-listed former maternity hospital and now private home at 180 McLeod, Cairns North, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Hides Hotel

Hides Hotel is a heritage-listed hotel at 87 Lake Street, Cairns, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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High Court of Australia

The High Court of Australia is the supreme court in the Australian court hierarchy and the final court of appeal in Australia.

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Holloways Beach, Queensland

Holloways Beach is a suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Hot FM (Australian radio network)

Hot FM was an Australian radio network, consisting of stations in north and central Queensland and Western Australia.

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Innisfail, Queensland

Innisfail (from Irish: Inis Fáil) a town and locality in the Cassowary Coast Region in Far North Queensland, Australia.

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Isabel Lucas

Isabel Lucas (born 29 January 1985) is an Australian actress, and model.

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Jack and Newell Building

Jack and Newell Building is a heritage-listed office building at 29 Wharf Street, Cairns, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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James Cook

Captain James Cook (7 November 1728Old style date: 27 October14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy.

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James Cook University

James Cook University (JCU) is a public university and is the second oldest university in Queensland, Australia.

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Jarrod Harbrow

Jarrod Harbrow (born 18 July 1988) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Gold Coast Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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Johnny Nicol

Johnny Nicol is a jazz singer born in Ayr, Queensland.

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Justin Hodges

Justin Hodges (born 25 May 1982) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 2000s and 2010s.

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Kamerunga, Queensland

Kamerunga is a suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland in Australia, located northwest of the city centre.

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Kanimbla, Queensland

Kanimbla is a suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Katter's Australian Party

Katter's Australian Party (KAP) is a political party in Australia.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Ken Ham

Kenneth Alfred Ham (born 20 October 1951) is an Australian-born Christian fundamentalist and young Earth creationist living in the United States.

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Kennedy Highway

The Kennedy Highway is a highway in northern Queensland, Australia. It runs as National Route 1 for approximately 243 km from Smithfield, on the northern outskirts of Cairns, to the Gulf Developmental Road in the vicinity of Forty Mile Scrub and Undara Volcanic national parks (at Minnamoolka, about 40 kilometres south of Mount Garnet). South of this junction, the road continues as the Kennedy Developmental Road (State Highway 62) to Boulia about 936 kilometres away, via Hughenden. West of the junction, National Route 1 continues as the Gulf Developmental Road to Normanton.

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Kevin Byrne (mayor)

Kevin Michael Byrne (born 1949) was Mayor of the City of Cairns in Queensland, Australia, from 1992 to 1995, and then from 2000 to 2008.

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Kewarra Beach

Kewarra Beach is a suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Kiteboarding

Kiteboarding is an action sport combining aspects of wakeboarding, snowboarding, windsurfing, surfing, paragliding, skateboarding and sailing into one extreme sport.

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Kuranda Scenic Railway

The Kuranda Scenic Railway is the name for the railway line that runs from Cairns, Queensland, Australia, to the nearby town of Kuranda.

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Kuranda, Queensland

Kuranda is a town and locality on the Atherton Tableland in the Shire of Mareeba, Far North Queensland, Australia.

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Lae

Lae is the capital of Morobe Province and is the second-largest city in Papua New Guinea.

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Leonard John Brass

Leonard John Brass (17 May 1900 – 29 August 1971) was an Australian and American botanist, botanical collector and explorer.

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Liaoning Whowin F.C.

Liaoning Football Club, officially known as Liaoning Hongyunhttp://www.lnhyfc.com/index/index.asp, is a professional association football club that currently participates in the China League One under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA).

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Liberal National Party of Queensland

The Liberal National Party of Queensland (LNP) is a political party in Queensland, Australia.

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Lion dance

Lion dance is a form of traditional dance in Chinese culture and other Asian countries in which performers mimic a lion's movements in a lion costume to bring good luck and fortune.

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List of cities in Australia by population

This list of Australian cities by population provides rankings of Australian cities according to various systems defined by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

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List of heritage registers

This list is of heritage registers, inventories of cultural properties, natural and man-made, tangible and intangible, movable and immovable, that are deemed to be of sufficient heritage value to be separately identified and recorded.

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List of mayors of Cairns

This is a list of mayors of the Far North Queensland city of Cairns.

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List of places in Queensland by population

This is a list of places in Queensland by urban centre population.

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List of tallest buildings in Cairns

This is a list of the tallest buildings in Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

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List of water sports

There are dozens of commonly played sports that involve water.

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Local government areas of Queensland

This is a list of local government areas (LGAs) in Queensland, sorted by region.

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Machans Beach, Queensland

Machans Beach is a beach and a suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Macquarie Dictionary

The Macquarie Dictionary is a dictionary of Australian English.

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Mangrove

A mangrove is a shrub or small tree that grows in coastal saline or brackish water.

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Manoora, Queensland

Manoora is a suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Mareeba

Mareeba is a town in Far North Queensland, Australia.

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Marlin Coast Sunbus

Sunbus is the principal bus operator in Cairns, Queensland operating services under the TransLink (South East Queensland) scheme in the Cairns region.

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Maroochydore

Maroochydore is an urban centre on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia.

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McLeod Street Pioneer Cemetery

McLeod Street Pioneer Cemetery is a heritage-listed cemetery at 127-145 McLeod Street, Cairns North, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Medical evacuation

Medical evacuation, often shortened to medevac or medivac, is the timely and efficient movement and en route care provided by medical personnel to wounded being evacuated from a battlefield, to injured patients being evacuated from the scene of an accident to receiving medical facilities, or to patients at a rural hospital requiring urgent care at a better-equipped facility using medically equipped ground vehicles (ambulances) or aircraft (air ambulances).

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Michael Thwaite

Michael Errol Thwaite (born 2 May 1983) is an Australian football (soccer) player who currently plays for Western Sydney Wanderers.

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Minami, Tokushima

is a town located in Kaifu District, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan.

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Mirriwinni, Queensland

Mirriwinni is a town and a locality in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Mooroobool, Queensland

Mooroobool is a suburb of the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Morobe Province

Morobe Province is a province on the northern coast of Papua New Guinea.

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Mossman, Queensland

Mossman is a town and a locality in Far North Queensland, Australia, on the Mossman River.

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Mount Isa

Mount Isa is a city in the Gulf Country region of Queensland, Australia.

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Mount Molloy, Queensland

Mount Molloy is a historic mining and timber town and locality lying north of Cairns in Queensland, Australia.

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Mulgrave River

The Mulgrave River, incorporating the East Mulgrave River and the West Mulgrave River, is a river system located in Far North Queensland, Australia.

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Mulgrave Shire Council Chambers

Mulgrave Shire Council Chambers is a heritage-listed former town hall and now tourist information office at 51 The Esplanade, Cairns, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Naomi Wenitong

Naomi Sky Wenitong (born 1982, Cairns) is an indigenous singer-songwriter based in Newcastle.

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Narrow-gauge railway

A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than the standard.

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Nate Myles

Nate Myles (born 24 June 1985) is an Australian former rugby league footballer who last played for the Melbourne Storm in the National Rugby League.

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Nathan Jawai

Nathan Leon Jawai (born 10 October 1986), an Indigenous Australian of Torres Strait Islander descent, is a professional basketball player for the Cairns Taipans of the National Basketball League (NBL).

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National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a men's professional basketball league in North America; composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada).

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National Basketball League (Australia)

The National Basketball League (NBL) is the pre-eminent professional men's basketball league in Australia and New Zealand.

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National Film and Sound Archive

The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) is Australia’s audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting and providing access to a national collection of copies of film, television, sound, and radio audiovisual materials and related items.

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National Premier Leagues Queensland

The National Premier League Queensland, run by Football Queensland, is the top tier state-level football (soccer) competition in Queensland.

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National Rugby League

The National Rugby League (NRL) is a league of professional men's rugby league teams in Australasia.

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Network Ten

Network Ten (commonly known as Channel Ten or simply Ten, officially stylised as TEN) is an Australian commercial television network.

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Nine (Southern Cross Austereo)

Nine Regional is an Australian television network owned by Southern Cross Austereo that is broadcast in Queensland, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria and South Australia.

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Nine Network

The Nine Network (commonly known as Channel Nine or simply Nine) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air television network, that is a division of Nine Entertainment Co. with headquarters in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney, Australia.

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North Coast railway line, Queensland

The North Coast railway line is a narrow gauge railway line in Queensland, Australia.

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North Queensland Cowboys

The North Queensland Cowboys (Also known as the North Queensland Toyota Cowboys for sponsorship reasons) are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Townsville, the largest city in North Queensland.

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Northern Pride RLFC

Northern Pride Rugby League Football Club is a Queensland rugby league club founded in 2007.

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Northern Territory

The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT) is a federal Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia.

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Oyama, Tochigi

is a city located in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan.

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Pacific National

Pacific National is one of Australia's largest rail freight businesses.

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Palm Cove, Queensland

Palm Cove is a beachside suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Parachuting

Parachuting, or skydiving, is a method of transiting from a high point to Earth with the aid of gravity, involving the control of speed during the descent with the use of a parachute/s.

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Paratrooper

Paratroopers are military parachutists—military personnel trained in parachuting into an operation and usually functioning as part of an airborne force.

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Parliament of Australia

The Parliament of Australia (officially the Federal Parliament; also known as the Commonwealth Parliament or just Parliament) is the legislative branch of the government of Australia.

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Parliament of Queensland

The Parliament of Queensland is the legislature of Queensland, Australia.

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Peace Lutheran College

Peace Lutheran College is a Prep - Year 12 Christian co-educational day and boarding school located in Kamerunga, a suburb of Cairns in Tropical North Queensland.

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Port Adelaide Football Club

The Port Adelaide Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Alberton, Port Adelaide, South Australia.

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Port Douglas

Port Douglas is a town in Far North Queensland, Australia, approximately north of Cairns.

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Public and private education in Australia

Education in Australia can be classified according to sources of funding and administrative structures.

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Public transport bus service

Public transport bus services are generally based on regular operation of transit buses along a route calling at agreed bus stops according to a published public transport timetable.

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Quaid Road

Quaid Road (Southedge-Wangetti Road) is a stretch of road in Far North Queensland.

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Queensland

Queensland (abbreviated as Qld) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia.

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Queensland Cup

The Queensland Cup is the top level of rugby league football in Queensland, Australia.

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Queensland Rail

Queensland Rail, also known as QR, is a railway operator in Queensland, Australia.

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Queensland State High Schools

Queensland State High Schools cater for Years 7 to 12 (or some smaller range within this).

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Queensland State Schools

Queensland State Schools are schools that are part of the Queensland, Australia.

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RAAF Museum

RAAF Museum is the official museum of the Royal Australian Air Force, the second oldest air force in the world, located at RAAF Williams Point Cook, Victoria, Australia.

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Radio National

ABC Radio National, known on-air as RN, is an Australia-wide Public Service Broadcasting radio network run by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

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Rafting

Rafting and white water rafting are recreational outdoor activities which use an inflatable raft to navigate a river or other body of water.

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Rainforestation Nature Park

Rainforestation Nature Park is situated five minutes from Kuranda in Far North Queensland, Australia.

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Ranked voting

Ranked voting describes certain voting systems in which voters rank outcomes in a hierarchy on the ordinal scale (ordinal voting systems).

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Rayleen Lynch

Rayleen Lynch (m. Decker) is a retired Australian women's basketball player.

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Redlynch, Queensland

Redlynch is a town and suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Rhys Wakefield

Rhys Wakefield (born 20 November 1988) is an Australian actor and director who first started out as a regular on the Australian TV series Home and Away where he starred in 363 episodes.

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Rhyse Martin

Rhyse Martin (born 1 March 1993) is a Papua New Guinean international rugby league footballer who plays for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs in the National Rugby League.

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Richard Ash Kingsford

Richard Ash Kingsford (1821–1902) was an alderman and mayor of Brisbane Municipal Council, a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, Australia, and a mayor of Cairns, Queensland.

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Riga

Riga (Rīga) is the capital and largest city of Latvia.

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Rob Pyne

Robert John Pyne (born 23 April 1967) is an Australian politician.

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Royal Australian Air Force

The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), formed March 1921, is the aerial warfare branch of the Australian Defence Force (ADF).

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Royal Australian Navy

The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is the naval branch of the Australian Defence Force.

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Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia

The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia (RFDS, informally known as The Flying Doctor) is one of the largest and most comprehensive aeromedical organisations in the world.

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Rugby union

Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Ryan McGoldrick

Ryan McGoldrick (born 12 January 1981) is a professional rugby league footballer for the Darlington Point Coleambally Roosters in the Group 20 competition in regional New South Wales, Australia.

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Savannahlander

The Savannahlander is an Australian passenger train service that operates in Far North Queensland that travels on the Tablelands line from the coastal city of Cairns to Forsayth.

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SBS (Australian TV channel)

SBS is a national public television network in Australia.

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School of the Air

School of the Air is a generic term for correspondence schools catering for the primary and early secondary education of children in remote and outback Australia where some or all classes were traditionally conducted by radio, although this is now being replaced by internet technology.

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Scottsdale, Arizona

Scottsdale (Vaṣai S-vaṣonĭ; Eskatel) is a city in the eastern part of Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, part of the Greater Phoenix Area.

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Scuba diving

Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving where the diver uses a self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (scuba) which is completely independent of surface supply, to breathe underwater.

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Sea FM

Sea FM is an Australian radio network, consisting of stations in Queensland and New South Wales and is owned by Southern Cross Austereo.

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Seven Network

The Seven Network (commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air television network.

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Shakaya

Shakaya were a two-piece girl group from Australia, that consisted of Simone Stacey and Naomi Wenitong, two Cairns, North Queensland based songwriters and performers.

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Shane Stefanutto

Shane Stefanutto (born 12 January 1980) is an Australian international football (soccer) player who plays as a defender for Olympic FC in the National Premier Leagues Queensland.

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Shire of Douglas

The Shire of Douglas is a local government area in Far North Queensland.

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Shire of Mulgrave (Queensland)

The Shire of Mulgrave was a local government area surrounding the City of Cairns in the Far North region of Queensland.

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Sidney, British Columbia

Sidney is a town located at the northern end of the Saanich Peninsula, on Vancouver Island in the Canadian province of British Columbia.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Skyrail Rainforest Cableway

Skyrail Rainforest Cableway is a 7.5 km scenic cableway running above the Barron Gorge National Park, in the Wet Tropics of Queensland’s World Heritage Area.

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Smithfield, Queensland

Smithfield is a suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Snorkeling

Snorkeling (British and Commonwealth English spelling: snorkelling) is the practice of swimming on or through a body of water while equipped with a diving mask, a shaped breathing tube called a snorkel, and usually swimfins.

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Special Broadcasting Service

The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) is a hybrid-funded Australian public broadcasting radio, online, and television network.

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St Joseph's Convent, Cairns

St Joseph's Convent is a heritage-listed convent at 179 Abbott Street, Cairns, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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St Monica's High School Administration Building

St Monica's High School Administration Building is a heritage-listed private school at Abbott Street, Cairns, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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St Monica's Old Cathedral, Cairns

St Monica's Old Cathedral is a heritage-listed former Roman Catholic cathedral at Minnie Street, Cairns, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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St Monica's War Memorial Cathedral

St Monica's War Memorial Cathedral is a heritage-listed Roman Catholic cathedral at 183 Abbott Street, Cairns, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Steve Corica

Stephen Christopher Corica born 24 March 1973 in Innisfail, Australia) is a retired Australian football (soccer) player and the current manager of Sydney FC in the A-League. A technically gifted and skillful attacking midfielder during his playing career, he represented Australia more than thirty times and captained Sydney FC to a domestic double. Since retiring in 2010, he was an assistant and youth coach at Sydney FC, before being appointed Head Coach in May 2018.

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STQ

STQ is an Australian television station, licensed to, and serving the regional areas of Queensland.

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Stratford, Queensland

Stratford is a suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Sugarcane

Sugarcane, or sugar cane, are several species of tall perennial true grasses of the genus Saccharum, tribe Andropogoneae, native to the warm temperate to tropical regions of South and Southeast Asia, Polynesia and Melanesia, and used for sugar production.

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Susan Kiefel

Susan Mary Kiefel (born 17 January 1954) is the Chief Justice of Australia, in office since 30 January 2017.

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Sustainable energy

Sustainable energy is energy that is consumed at insignificant rates compared to its supply and with manageable collateral effects, especially environmental effects.

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Sydney

Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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Tablelands Region

The Tablelands Region is a local government area in Far North Queensland, Australia inland from the city of Cairns.

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Technical and further education

In Australia, technical and further education or TAFE institutions provide a wide range of predominantly vocational courses, mostly qualifying courses under the National Training System/Australian Qualifications Framework/Australian Quality Training Framework.

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Television broadcasting in Australia

As early as 1929, two Melbourne commercial radio stations, 3UZ and 3DB were conducting experimental mechanical television broadcasts - these were conducted in the early hours of the morning, after the stations had officially closed down.

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Terence Cooper

Terence Cooper (5 July 1933 – 16 September 1997) was a British film actor, best known for his roles in Australian and New Zealand television and film.

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The Australian

The Australian is a broadsheet newspaper published in Australia from Monday to Saturday each week since 14 July 1964.

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The Cairns Post

The Cairns Post is a major News Corporation newspaper in Far North Queensland, Australia, that exclusively serves the Cairns area.

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The Courier-Mail

The Courier-Mail is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Brisbane, Australia.

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Tilt Train

The Tilt Train is the name for two similar high-speed tilting train services, one electric and the other diesel, operated by Queensland Rail on the North Coast line from Brisbane to Rockhampton and Cairns.

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Time in Australia

Australia uses three main time zones: Australian Western Standard Time (AWST; UTC+08:00), Australian Central Standard Time (ACST; UTC+09:30), and Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST; UTC+10:00).

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Tochigi Prefecture

is a prefecture located in the Kantō region of Japan.

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Tokushima Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located on Shikoku island.

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Toplessness

Toplessness refers to the state in which a woman's torso is exposed above her waist or hips, or with at least her breasts, areola, and nipples being exposed, especially in a public place or in a visual medium.

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Torres Strait

The Torres Strait is a strait which lies between Australia and the Melanesian island of New Guinea.

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Tourism Australia

Tourism Australia is the Government of Australia agency responsible for promoting Australia to the world as a destination for business and leisure travel.

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Townsville

Townsville is a city on the north-eastern coast of Queensland, Australia.

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Tracey Hannah

Tracey Hannah (born 13 June 1988 in Cairns, Australia) is a Professional Downhill bike rider and Mick Hannah's younger sister.

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TransLink (South East Queensland)

TransLink is an agency of the Department of Transport and Main Roads first introduced by the Queensland Government in June 2003 to coordinate and integrate bus, ferry and rail services.

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Trinity Anglican School

Trinity Anglican School (TAS) is a private Anglican School in Tropical North Queensland, Australia which opened on 25 May 1983.

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Trinity Bay (Queensland)

Trinity Bay is a large bay in the Coral Sea off the east coast of Far North Queensland, Australia.

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Trinity Beach, Queensland

Trinity Beach is a suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Trinity Inlet

The Trinity Inlet is an oceanic inlet which serves as the port for the city of Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

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Triple J

Triple J (often triple j) is a government-funded, national Australian radio station intended to appeal to listeners between the ages of 18 and 34 which began broadcasting in January 1975.

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Tropical climate

A tropical climate in the Köppen climate classification is a non-arid climate in which all twelve months have mean temperatures of at least.

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Tropical monsoon climate

A tropical monsoon climate (occasionally known as a tropical wet climate or a tropical monsoon and trade-wind littoral climate) is a type of climate that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification category "Am".

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Uber

Uber Technologies Inc. (doing business as Uber) is a peer-to-peer ridesharing, taxi cab, food delivery, and transportation network company headquartered in San Francisco, California, with operations in 633 cities worldwide.

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United States Army Air Forces

The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF), informally known as the Air Force, was the aerial warfare service of the United States of America during and immediately after World War II (1939/41–1945), successor to the previous United States Army Air Corps and the direct predecessor of the United States Air Force of today, one of the five uniformed military services.

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United States Navy

The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States.

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Urban sprawl

Urban sprawl or suburban sprawl describes the expansion of human populations away from central urban areas into low-density, monofunctional and usually car-dependent communities, in a process called suburbanization.

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Warren Entsch

Warren George Entsch (born 31 May 1950) is an Australian politician who has been a member of the House of Representatives from 1996 to 2007 and since 2010, representing the Division of Leichhardt.

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Westcourt, Queensland

Westcourt is a suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Wet season

The monsoon season, is the time of year when most of a region's average annual rainfall occurs.

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Wet Tropics of Queensland

The Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Site consists of approximately 8,940 km² of Australian wet tropical forests growing along the north-east Queensland portion of the Great Dividing Range.

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William Cairns

Sir William Wellington Cairns, (1828 – 1888) was a British colonial administrator.

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Wilma Reading

Wilma Reading is a singer from Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

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WIN Television

WIN Television is an Australian television network owned by WIN Corporation that is based in Wollongong, New South Wales.

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Woree, Queensland

Woree is a suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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World Heritage site

A World Heritage site is a landmark or area which is selected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as having cultural, historical, scientific or other form of significance, and is legally protected by international treaties.

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WWII RAN Fuel Installation, Edge Hill

WWII RAN Fuel Installation is a heritage-listed former fuel depot and now arts centre at Collins Avenue, Edge Hill, Cairns, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Xavier and Sadie Herbert's Cottage

Xavier and Sadie Herbert's Cottage is a heritage-listed cottage at 399 Kamerunga Road, Redlynch, Cairns, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Xavier Herbert

Xavier Herbert (15 May 190110 November 1984) was an Australian writer best known for his Miles Franklin Award-winning novel Poor Fellow My Country (1975).

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Yidiny language

Yidiny (also spelled Yidiɲ, Yidiñ, Jidinj, Jidinʲ, Yidinʸ, Yidiń) is a nearly extinct Australian Aboriginal language, spoken by the Yidinji people of north-east Queensland.

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Yorkeys Knob, Queensland

Yorkeys Knob is one of the beach suburbs of Cairns, in Cairns Region, Far North Queensland, Australia.

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Yungaburra

Yungaburra is a town located on the Atherton Tableland in Far North Queensland, Australia, not far from Cairns.

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Z Experimental Station

The Z Experimental Station (ZES), Cairns was set up in July 1942, jointly by Secret Intelligence Australia and the Inter-Allied Services Department.

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Zhanjiang

Zhanjiang is a prefecture-level city at the southwestern end of Guangdong province, People's Republic of China, facing Hainan to the south.

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2000–01 Australian region cyclone season

The 2000–01 Australian region cyclone season was a below average tropical cyclone season.

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2014 FFA Cup

The 2014 FFA Cup was the inaugural season of the FFA Cup, the main national soccer knockout cup competition in Australia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairns

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