General Info

Welcome to the Cairns Regional Council's official page on Facebook where you will find recent news, important alerts, photos and events. To make a formal enquiry, click the "contact us" tab on the cover photo. Posting Guidelines: We welcome your posts but monitor and moderate content to ensure our Facebook community is friendly, respectful and inclusive for all visitors. While this is an open forum we have a few general housekeeping rules that we ask you to adhere to when contributing your views to Cairns Regional Council's Facebook page. Failure to adhere to our page rules as well as Facebook's own page usage terms and conditions will result in your content being removed. Repeated violations will result in users being blocked from our page: *Substance - not spam!* This means don't repost other people's appeals, requests or offers, or post comments that are clearly off topic. If you see something offensive on Facebook, report it to Facebook or if you feel we really should know about it, please alert us using the Facebook personal message contact form on tour Facebook page - don't share it or link it via our page's wall please. *Commercial Advertising, Promotions or hyperlinks don't belong here* Content that may consistitute advertising, such as promotion of commercial interests, solicitations or endorsements of non-governmental products or services, will be removed. The Cairns Regional Council Facebook page is a place for us to promote OUR local community and Council/Government sponsored events. It is Council policy not to promote or otherwise endorse commercial or non-government/Council activities. If you post anything to our page that contravines this criteria we reserve the right to take it down without consultation with you and/or the creator. Repeated violations of this policy may result in the user being blocked from our page. (Note: The appearance of PPC advertising, sponsored stories or other Facebook generated promotions on our Facebook page does not constitute approval or endorsement by Cairns Regional Council of the products or services advertised on this site.) *No non-government hyperlinks please* We cannot control the content contained on other websites, so we will remove any links we are not comfortable providing to our diverse online community. Don't link to commercial websites that promote products or services and remember we have fans from non-English speaking backgrounds and minors (13-17 years old) *Play nice. No one likes it when you are offensive* We want everyone to feel comfortable joining our online community and to come here to find and enjoy the important information we provide. Comments containing obscene or vulgar language, abuse, personal attacks or hate speech of any kind, or offensive terms will be removed and the user reported to Facebook. *Protect your own personal privacy* Don't include your email address, phone numbers or home addresses on the public wall. If you need to report an issue to us or we ask you for more information, please use our confidential https encrypted 'contact me' form, located on the left hand side of our Facebook page. Be aware that, depending on your Facebook profile privacy settings, by participating on Council's Facebook page, you may be making your information accessible to other people or organisations accessing Facebook. Cairns Regional Council will not seek or collect your personal information from Facebook. *COUNCIL STAFF PLEASE NOTE * Your personal interactions on our Facebook page are governed by your employment code of conduct and Council's official Media Policy and Admin instructions. DO NOT post full names, email addresses, direct line phone numbers, personal details or similar information about other Council staff on this Facebook page or any other page on Facebook. Similarly do not provide official comment or make comments on behalf of Council on any matter unless you have been previously authorised by the CEO, GM or Manager of Marketing Communications. If you are a Council staff member concerned about making comments or posting information, check with the Manager, Marketing & Communications at Cairns Regional Council.