North Queensland regional development organisations (RDOs) vowed to take a collaborative approach to lobbying all levels of Government for high priority infrastructure projects, following a meeting in Cairns recently.

Hosted by Advance Cairns, the quarterly meeting included high-ranking representatives of RDOs from Gladstone to Cape York and out to Mt Isa, and from the Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation in Brisbane.

The 20-strong group resolved to assess infrastructure priorities from each of their areas and formulate a list of high priority projects to lobby the Federal Government for.

The group, which represented Townsville Enterprise Limited, Mount Isa to Townsville Economic Development Zone Incorporated, Rockhampton Regional Development Limited, Mackay Whitsunday Regional Economic Development Corporation, Gladstone Area Promotion and Development Limited, Cape York Peninsula Development Association Inc, Gulf Savannah Development, the Office of Northern Australia and the Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation, will meet again in September in Mackay.