News

January 17th, 2019

Welcome to Cairns Language Centre & Cairns Business College (An Entity of Charles Darwin University) as the Major Sponsor of Tradelinked Cairns-PNG-Pacific.  We appreciate the on-going long term support from all our sponsors as we look forward to a productive new year for Cairns; Papua New Guinea and Pacific business relations.

December 28th, 2018

Check out our Tradelinked 2019 Calendar of Events to assist in planning your next 12 month’s business activities.  Click on  Events  / Upcoming Events  

December 14th, 2018

Qantas has announced it will reinstate daily flights between Cairns and Port Moresby from 31 March 2019.  This is great news for the Cairns region, its businesses; tourism industry and PNG community.  More than that though it offers one more reason as to why agencies and corporates working in the Pacific need to seriously consider […]

December 12th, 2018

Papua New Guinea stands to benefit from the recent signing of a MOU between Wafi Golpu’s Joint Venture partners, Newcrest and Harmony Gold, and the PNG Govt ensuring the State will acquire almost 51% of the mine’s revenue.  The K17 billion gold mine is located in the Morobe Province – see article below.

December 8th, 2018

Last week Lowy Institute held its annual Aus-PNG Network’s ‘Emerging Leaders Dialogue’ for the first time in Cairns. The Dialogue brings together ten Papua New Guinean and ten Australian young people who are leaders in their fields, for two days of networking and discussion of priority issues for each country and the bilateral relationship. Congratulations […]

December 4th, 2018

The Australian Department of Health is seeking to raise awareness of the outbreak of polio that is currently occurring in Papua New Guinea (PNG), and of the need for anyone travelling to PNG to ensure that their vaccinations are up-to-date, including having a booster, before they go.  This relates in particular to people who travel […]

December 3rd, 2018

Interpreter article – Conflict, romance and PNG: The APEC Summit BY SHANE MCLEOD AND JONATHAN PRYKE In this Interpreter article, Shane McLeod and Jonathan Pryke discuss the 2018 APEC Leaders’ Summit in Papua New Guinea. Mr Pryke and Mr McLeod argue that the summit will be remembered for years to come – particularly for the […]

November 26th, 2018

To those who have RSVPd or still intend to come along to the final 2018 Tradelinked Business Networking event tomorrow (Tues 27th Nov) please note the venue is the Cairns Aquarium, Cnr of Florence and Abbott Sts, 5.30pm start.  Hope to see you there.

November 7th, 2018

Date Claimer– the last Tradelinked business networking event for 2018 is on Tuesday 27 November from 5.30pm.  Invitations to be sent out soon.  With Christmas parties starting earlier every year you wouldn’t want to double book and miss out!

October 27th, 2018

During the weekend our Cairns business delegation will be part of a larger Australian presence at the Morobe Agricultural Show. Under the Australian Pavilion banner, the businesses will exhibit their products and services to a large audience drawn to the show from the Morobe Province and further afield. These include mining companies; government representatives; PNG […]