Mike from Cairnsblog is advertising a sustainability forum in Cairns today for mayoral candidates. Seems, though, that the mayor, Kevin Byrne, is not showing up...

It will be a mayoral candidate's forum without the mayor today.

CAFNEC's ‘Vision for Our Future’ forum will focus on 'sustainability', runs from 12-1.30pm at the Courthouse Hotel in Abbot St. Pat Morrish from ABC Far North will facilitate the meeting.

The candidates will be quized on ecological sustainability, and their vision for achieving this within the next 20 years.

Land use planning; public transport; climate change; natural environment; energy and water, are all

Mayor Byrne has turned down the invitation to meet the community and discuss sustainability. Instead, he will save a few carbon emissions by having a pie at the ground floor Council staff cafe.