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• 'They're trying to turn the Sunshine Coast into the Gold Coast ...

  

  Mooloolaba C1970s.Photo: MooloolabaCampers at one of Queensland's most famous caravan parks want to have their beachside holiday spot included on Queensland's Heritage Register to stop council plans to build a big landscaped garden on the site instead.They say the Sunshine Coast Council is trying to turn the Sunshine Coast into the Gold Coast.Their holiday spot at Mooloolaba has been "sliced and sliced" over time and is now a 13-metre wide, 600-metre long strip of rocky Mooloolaba beach that is ..

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• Gold Coast Commonwealth Games body criticised by minister

  

  Commonwealth Games Minister Stirling Hinchliffe has criticised organisers.Photo: Dallas KilponenQueensland's government has criticised Commonwealth Games organisers for communicating poorly with the opening ceremony's unsuccessful bidders, but a report shows the overall tender process was fair.Three failed local bidders have publicly expressed concern about the perceived influence of Gold Coast Games Corporation technical advisers, Mik Auckland and Celia Smith, in the organising committee's deci..

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• Coast clubbies support Cole's family

  

  Pallbearer Mitch Miller at his brother Cole’s funeral. Picture: Tara Croser..SURF life saving officials and some of his closest club mates made up the Gold Coast contingent of supporters for ironman Mitch Miller at his brother Cole’s funeral in Brisbane yesterday.Those attending said former Nutri-Grain Ironman Series competitor Mitch was inconsolable while he mourned the death of his brother who passed away in hospital following an alleged one-punch attack in Fortitude Valley last week.ONE-PUNCH..

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• Suns ready to rotate players

  

  Touk Miller is one of the young Gold Coast Suns players who carried much of the load during the team’s injury crisis in 2015. Picture: Regi Varghese.THE Gold Coast Suns will implement a rotation policy in the upcoming NAB Challenge with an eye on starting the AFL season at full speed.The Suns will boast almost a full arsenal of available talent for Round 1 of the challenge against Brisbane Lions on February 21 for the first time in more than 12 months.Gold Coast football manager Marcus Ashcroft ..

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• Call for new international airport

  

  A SECOND International airport is exactly what the Gold Coast needs to end a costly dependence on the struggling Pacific Motorway, says a leading business ...

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