General News
30 January, 2025
Aviation group needs reps
REPRESENTATIVES are still required for Cairns Airport’s Community Aviation Consultation Group (CACG).
The purpose of the CACG is to ensure representation of communities affected by airport development or operations.
Representatives are sought from Cairns City/Cairns North, Aeroglen and Clifton Beach.
Carol Hall, who is Machans Beach’s representative, told the suburb’s newsletter Machanations, that it had been a year since CACG has had a formal meeting.
“This has been due to not achieving a quorum. To address this, Cairns Airport has been actively advertising over the last few months for representatives from the flight path suburbs to volunteer for the CACG,” she said.
“Machans, Holloways, Yorkeys and Trinity Beach positions have all been filled now, and representatives for Aeroglen and Cairns/Cairns North (and Clifton Beach) are still needed,” Ms Hall said.
“The purpose of the CACG is to ensure that community views are effectively heard by the airport and to serve as a forum for its members to raise and discuss airport-related, environmental and community issues and have the opportunity to obtain information about what is happening at the airport.
“If you have any airport-related community concerns or feedback, you can voice them through the community association, firstly via secretary.mbca@machansbeach.net where the matters will be discussed and then passed to your CACG representative to be raised at the next meeting.”
According to the airport’s website the intended role of the Cairns Airport CACG is:
to enable airport operators, local residents, authorities and other interested parties to exchange information on issues relating to airport operations
to allow matters to be raised and considered by Cairns Airport (the operator), with a genuine desire to resolve issues that may emerge
to discuss and share information between the airport and communities affected by its operations and plans.
“The Cairns Airport CACG is aimed at facilitating well-informed and collaborative discussions on a wide range of matters,” the website said.
“Cairns Airport gives serious consideration to recommendations made by the CACG, particularly in relation to planning and development.
“The CACG is one avenue through which matters can be raised and does not replace other feedback mechanisms established by the operator or authorities (such as the handling of aircraft noise complaints by Air Services Australia and Cairns Regional Council).
“The Cairns Airport CACG is neither an arbitration nor a decision-making body and meetings will not be allowed to be dominated by a single topic or individual member.”
