Cairns North, Queensland
Cairns North is a coastal suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Cairns North had a population of 5,191 people.
Cairns Region
On 21 November 1991, the Electoral and Administrative Review Commission, created two years earlier, produced its second report, and recommended that local government boundaries in the Cairns area be rationalised, and that the Shire be dissolved and amalgamated with the City of Cairns. The "Local Government (Cairns, Douglas, Mareeba and Mulgrave) Regulation 1994" was gazetted on 16 December 1994. On 22 March 1995, the Shire was abolished and became part of the new City of Cairns.