Tully is a rural town and locality in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia.

Tully is perhaps best known for being one of the wettest towns in Australia, and home to the 7.9 m (25 ft 11 in) tall Golden Gumboot.

The economic base of the region is agriculture: sugar cane and bananas are the dominant crops.

[4] The Tully River area was slowly settled once Cardwell, to the south, was established.

[citation needed] Augustinian priests based in Innisfail began to conduct Roman Catholic services in Tully in 1926.

Vicar Apostolic of Cooktown John Heavey laid the foundation stone for a church dedicated to St Clare of Montefalco in May 1926.

In 1929, the decision was taken to relocate the shire council's headquarters to the newer but more populous town of Tully.

In 2019, Tully became the inaugural winner of a Loud Shirt Day competition to find Queensland's Loudest Town.

Inspired by a local story, and facing strong competition from other regional Queensland towns, members of the community rallied together to raise $13,410 to support services provided to young people with hearing loss.

It also serves as a museum, documenting past floods, as well as displaying the rainfall for the current year.

An unknown number of homes were completely destroyed as intense winds, estimated at 300 km/h (190 mph), battered the area.

[18] As daybreak came, reports from the town stated that about 90 percent of the structures along the main avenue sustained extensive damage.

One of the strains of the disease affects all types of bananas and has previously only been detected in the Northern Territory.

[citation needed] The campus is situated on extensive grounds, 38 hectares, and includes an aquaculture centre, a worm farm, an arboretum, a herd of cattle and several sports fields.

[citation needed] The Cassowary Coast Regional Council operates the Dorothy Jones Library at 34 Bryant Street, Tully.

[28] The Tully branch of the Queensland Country Women's Association meets at the CWA Hall at 5 Plumb Street.

Tully was once one of the biggest sporting hubs in Far North Queensland, but since the economic crisis has hit, they are looking for more and more ways to support their clubs.

The height corresponds to highest annual rainfall in a populated area of Australia, which occurred in Tully in 1950.

Their primary role is to deliver basic and advanced jungle warfare training to dismounted combat team sized organizations.