Cairns Wheels News
On Your Bike
Saturday May 24, 2008
Matthew Wilson has a boys' own adventure riding on two wheels from Cairns to Cape York.No Need To Hide In The Mob With China As A Running Partner
Monday August 12, 2002
AT THE start of yesterday's City to Surf it took less than five minutes for the competition geeks to get from the city to Edgecliff Centre, but it took a full hour for the rest of the record 56,000 entrants to pass by, including the dinosaurs, Men In Black, fairies, devils, gorillas and babies-on-wheels.Industry Wheels Grind Their Own
Saturday December 13, 1997
WHEN THE Prime Minister announced the Government's new industry policy on Monday, with its commitment to "hands on" strategic intervention, his official adviser on industry policy was conspicuously absent. The Industry Commission once again had been ignored. Sure, as its chairman, Mr BiFloating Above The Canopy Of Rainforest
Wednesday May 29, 1996
Skyrail, the world's longest gondola cableway, offers a unique way to experience Cairns's natural wonders, writes NORMAN NORTH . ONE of the joys of visiting Cairns has been the final minutes before landing. The Qantas 767 flies just off the coast, giving a view of the white city and the water maBats In The Works Spark Airbus Scare
Tuesday December 28, 1993
Sydney Fruit bats caused an emergency on an Ansett flight to Cairns on Boxing Day, prompting the pilot to abandon the first landing attempt. The jet, an Airbus A320 flight from Brisbane, with 139 passengers, was just 20 metres off the ground and approaching the runway when it flew through the baGremlins Ground Fischer
Friday February 19, 1993
CAIRNS: The take-off of a VIP aircraft carrying the Leader of the National Party, Mr Fischer, was suddenly aborted in Cairns yesterday. The pilot hit the brakes when a warning light indicated that one of the Falcon 900's three engines had failed. Instead, however, it appeared that one of The Year's Wheels Of Fortune
Sunday January 5, 1992
DRY ice hung hazily in the air and multi-sequence videos tracked to driving rock music over giant screens as the glitterati of the Australian motor industry gathered in Melbourne this week to pay tribute to its Cars of the Year. Black ties and cocktail dresses were de rigueur as managing directoOn The Right Track
Thursday November 16, 1989
THE unsettling moment of uncertainty when a jet thunders down the tarmac until the wheels leave the ground and the plane struggles for altitude is, for me, one of the most terrifying of experiences. It is during this delicate period, when my palms turn to raging rapids of sweat, that my thWhy The Far North Is The Hub For Australia's Big Wheels
Monday September 19, 1988
THE Far North Queensland Amateur Turf Club's two-day annual at faraway Cairns's Cannon Park racetrack is the most remarkable race meeting in Australia. The horses, relatively weak by city or even country standards, attract the rich and the powerful from the southern States - business lea