The Cairns Landscaping Industry Cluster (CLIC) was formed by the landscape and garden industry in Far North Queensland in June 2004 as a collective of lifestyle horticulture businesses, individuals and organisations. CLIC is a cross-sector interest organisation that represents many individuals and organisations focused on the business of landscape development.
The cluster has one of the world’s largest and most significant concentrations of tropical landscape and design skills, with many of its members having trained in, or relocated to, this Australian tropical region. Many others have long and valuable experience in the region of tropical landscape construction and management. This allows CLIC to provide an extensive skills base that can be applied and adapted to any tropical climate in the world, individually or collectively by its many members.
CLIC is the only tropical-based organisation in Australian and the world’s tropics to develop a working relationship with the Singapore Government Centre for Urban Greenery and Ecology (CUGE) and the National Parks Board of Singapore. CLIC and CUGE signed a Memorandum of Collaboration during a high profile delegation of senior Singapore Government officials to Cairns in November 2009. The memorandum already provides avenues of new business, transfer of technologies and reciprocal visits from both sides of the Equator to further the development of tropical lifestyle horticulture and landscaping.
CLIC IS A BUSINESS GROUP
- CLIC is managed by elected industry members who form a Management Committee and set the CLIC agenda in consultation with industry.
- CLIC will always assist members to maintain and improve their profitability in the industry.
- CLIC conducts its own independent elections and determines its own policies and strategies.
CLIC OBJECTIVES
- Be a central industry reference point for our region.
- To encourage the highest standards of workmanship and services to consumers at all levels.
- To establish and maintain working relationships and to conduct submissions and representations to licensing authorities (QBSA etc)
- Determine local content for licence and professional development requirements
- Conduct negotiations with state/national regulators and peak industry bodies on local issues.
- Establish a program of training/ skills development and industry forums and workshops
- Develop networks to secure more local business
- Interact with other like-minded industry groups and organisations
WHO CAN JOIN CLIC?
- Professional gardeners, architects, landscape contractors, raw materials suppliers, garden and landscape designers, nurseries, pavers, arborists, landscape architects, horticulturists, parks and gardens, local and state government agencies, consultants, training institutions, golf courses, irrigation suppliers and contractors, transporters, turf growers and suppliers, product manufacturers.
- Any individual, business or organisation that is involved anywhere in the landscape supply chain.
For more information head to the CLIC website, or contact:
Administration: Kim Morris Ph: +61 7 4080 2905
Secretary: M: 0409 591 133
General Enquiries: info@clic.net.au