After more than four decades in business and more than two decades in local government, Terry James is dedicated to Mulgrave.

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Born and educated in Cairns, Terry is a fourth-generation Cairns resident from a pioneering Far North Queensland family, whose history dates back to the late 1800s on the Hodgkinson Gold Fields, north of Dimbulah.

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With his wife Carole, Terry enjoys his spare time with his five children and twelve gradchildren along with caravanning in the Far North.