It has daily coverage on local, state, national and world news, plus a wide range of sections and liftouts covering health, beauty, cars and lifestyle.

[3] The first incarnation of a newspaper called The Cairns Post was published first on 10 May 1883 and was founded by the ink manufacturer Frederick Thomas Wimble.

There he had renewed success and regained control of his former company there and published from 1906 Wimble's Reminder, which run until 1957.

AJ Draper started initially a career with the Bank of Australasia which took him through rural Victoria and New South Wales.

After being sent to Townsville he moved to Cairns in 1885 where he became involved in numerous business interests and also filled the position of mayor for several stints between 1891 and 1927.

In January 1885 he founded together with WD Hobson the Cairns Chronicle which evolved into a "rabid tabloid" style paper.

Later that year libelous remarks led to a horsewhipping of Edwin Draper by the Cairns Post publisher FT Wimble.

Queensland Press was also the largest shareholder of the Melbourne based publisher The Herald and Weekly Times (HWT) which was targeted for a takeover by the media tycoon Rupert Murdoch in the course of the big media shake-up of 1986/87, which was enabled by the Australian Federal Government under Prime Minister Bob Hawke to curry favour with the nation's major newspapers and their owners in order to foster its re-election chances in the 1987 Australian federal election.

He also designed the Adelaide Steamship Company’s Offices in Cairns (1910), the Jack and Newell Store (1911), the Palace Theatre (1913), the Howard Smith Building (1914), the Cairns Ambulance Station (1921), and St. Saviour's Church (Kuranda, 1915) as well as buildings interstate.