The Cairns Taipans Basketball Team are Cairns’ only national sporting team and are widely supported by the local community.

This extension turned the Cairns Convention Centre into one of the most flexible centres of its size in the world.

The Great Hall has a maximum capacity of 2300 delegates or 1720 square meters of flat floor space. It can be divided into four individual quadrants for up to 500 delegates in each. When used as a Trade Exhibition centre, The Great Hall can hold up to 120 booths. This large space can be reconfigured to suit conferences, seminars, exhibitions, performances, dinners, sporting events and more. 

The 2nd Hall has a maximum capacity of 5000 delegates or 1470 square meters of flat floor space. This is an ideal place for concerts with a 5000-strong seated audience.  

There are seven individual meeting rooms that can seat between 230 and 360 delegates in theatre style.

The Cairns Convention Centre is also the first environmentally designed major public building in Australia. Every aspect of its architecture is designed to minimize impact on the Tropical North Queensland environment. The roof captures tropical downpours and channels the rainwater directly into storage tanks. This water is then used to water the gardens around the Cairns Convention Centre during the dry months.