June 2024
The Gold Coast’s decision to embrace nature tourism will lead to beach bars and more commercial invasion in the hinterland.
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May 2024
Gold Coast mayor misconduct findings.
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February 2024
Cr William Owen-Jones quits council because of Tate.
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August 2023
Council planning chair on light rail, high rise and Coast population boom.
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APRIL 2023
Council once again disregards its City Plan to approve Kirra development.
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April 2023
Community demands inquiry into Council firesale of Surfers bowling club land.
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March 2023
City moves to shut down unapproved Helitours.
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February 2023
Massive changes to body corporate rules.
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February 2023
Light Rail-inspired new towers four or five times bigger than allowed.
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December 2022
$8m ratepayer funded rainforest is being trampled by drunks at midnight doof parties.
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October 2022
Gold Coast tower developers to be dealt a major blow under controversial plan.
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September 2022
State Govt paying more attention to the concerns of developers than Gold Coast residents.
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August 2022
Chinese developer’s plans to dump a controversial $600m theme park planned for floodplain.
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july 2022
Gold Coast City Council manager facing the axe as review reveals plunging morale .
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july 2022
“Struggling” developers are being forced to consider drastic measures.
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july 2022
Tate shrugs off state govt delays on cableway, insists city will press ahead solo
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july 2022
Spending cap on Gold Coast City Council elections welcomed by community
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February 2022
Community gears up for fight over controversial beach bar
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January 2022
The city’s planning department needs more staff causing concern about development approvals
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January 2022
How will Chevron Island infrastructure cope with high-rise surge?
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November 2021
Council cuts live stream of meetings
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November 2021
How every Gold Coast suburb will be transformed by 2032
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October 2021
Council votes to sell Bruce Bishop Car Park
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October 2021
Council votes to sell Bruce Bishop Car Park
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October 2021
Council decides against Oxenford quarry expansion
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October 2021
Climate change required to protect Gold Coast beaches and homes from flooding
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October 2021
Gold Coast’s beach bar next to fastest growing homeless cesspit
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October 2021
Council approves bar on Kurrawa beach with free rent
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October 2021
Tradies use footpath as carpark and block access for pedestrians
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September 2021
Council developer deal: Public parkland given for construction offices near supertower site
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September 2021
Tate hopes for a beach bar trial by early 2022 despite fears that buy-in required by Labor govt will be hampered by Green voters
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September 2021
Councillors split on expansion of Oxenford quarry
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September 2021
Council gifts Main beach park to developer
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September 2021
Oxenford quarry could operate for 100 years report reveals
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July 2021
Why is Gold Coast Council providing access to our beaches and foreshores for commercial operators?
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July 2021
Does the Gold Coast really need drastic development?
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June 2021
What will the light rail corridor do to the Broadbeach to Burleigh skyline?
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May 2021
Gold Coast’s planning process is flawed and developers have undue influence over Council officers.
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April 2021
Quiet, non-polluting hydrogen-powered buses get slammed by transport minister as an alternative to Gold Coast’s “light” rail .
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April 2021
Tate’s reason for higher density along key public transport corridors.
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April 2021
Campaigners want Council investigated for its roll out of the City Plan changes.
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MARCH 2021
Light rail property resumptions.
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MARCH 2021
Southern Gold Coast the new target for high density.
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March 2021
Flawed green bridges proposal rejected by Councillors.
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March 2021
Tate’s hypocrisy over “greenies”.
Gold Coast Bulletin Letter to the Editor / Read Full Article
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February 2021
Oceanway slammed as environmental vandalism.
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February 2021
Gold Coast’s leading environmental group slams beach bars.
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February 2021
Oceanway slammed as environmental vandalism.
Gold Coast Bulletin Letter to the Editor / Read Full Article
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February 2021
Council ‘baffling us with bulls--t’.
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January2021
Gold Coast’s “concrete canyonisation”.
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January2021
Push to dump existing Southport development scheme.
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November 2020
Opposing development on the Gold Coast. A David & Goliath battle.
Gold Coast Bulletin Letter to the Editor / Read Full Article
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November 2020
Gold Coast’s growing noise pollution crisis
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November 2020
Gold Coast cableway and cruise ship terminal still on the table
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November 2020
Future Gold Coast: How to solve the city’s COVID-19 downturn
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October 2020
Council again delays decision on high rise development and light rail
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October 2020
Gold Coast business lobby urge council to back beach bar.
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September 2020
How Brisbane could be world leader in sustainable development.
GCB Letters to the Editor / Read Full Article
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September 2020
How Brisbane could be world leader in sustainable development.
Courier Mail / Read Full Article
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August 2020
More heat than light around light rail.
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August 2020
Two senior council planning officers have left. Another will go soon.
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August 2020
Changes to the Gold Coast City Plan deferred until October.
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August 2020
City Plan email reveal: war between developers and residents.
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August 2020
Expert explains how Gold Coast wildlife know how to cross koalas bridges.
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July 2020
Gold Coast Light rail: First look at $5 million koala bridges for Burleigh and Currumbin.
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July 2020
Gold Coast Light Rail Stage 4: Alternate Palm Beach route revealed.
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July 2020
Rate rise on the cards? Fresh twist looms for Gold Coast suburbs in light rail debate
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JUNE 2020
New Flow tower at Rainbow Bay will block Gold Coast ocean views
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JUNE 2020
The city’s north has proved the big winners of this year’s city council budget
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JUNE 2020
Gold Coast ratepayers are being delivered a rates freeze.
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May 2020
Pictures reveal how the $2.4 billion Coomera Connector will transform Helensvale, Parkwood and other northern Gold Coast suburbs.
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May 2020
A giant city with room for 60,000 dwellings is planned for the Gold Coast, with a proposal that would transform one of the region’s last rural locations.
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May 2020
Halt to further funding of Tate’s controversial $650 million offshore cruise ship terminal project.
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May 2020
Gold Coast tower wars: Why Main Beach wins and Palm Beach loses
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April 2020
Property Council sends Tom Tate its developer wish-list.
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April 2020
ITY Oxenford Quarry development application seeks to go 95m below Coomera River Level over 100 years.
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April 2020
Calls continue for Tate to drop pursuit of the cruise ship terminal.
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MARCH 2020
Respected 16-year Councillor Peter Young wants Mona Hecke as mayor.
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MARCH 2020
Mayor’s 180 degree turn on Greenheart project after 15 years, as election looms.
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February 2020
Some say the Gold Coast is a concrete jungle.
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January 2020
Developers will no longer be able to use the light rail to justify increasing the height and density under proposed changes to the City Plan.
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January 2020
The Gold Coast’s leading environmental group Gecko, has vowed to fight revived plans to built a cableway in the Hinterland.
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December 2019
Gold Coast population boom: higher rates as houses become luxury unit apartments.
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December 2019
Community groups lobby Council to protect Upper Coomera cane lands and wildlife.
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November 2019
Community Alliance President makes Gold Coast’s most powerful people list.
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November 2019
Councillors asked to delay decision on City Plan changes after wave of last-minute objections.
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November 2019
Northern Gold Coast residents are putting up the stop sign for population growth because the roads are too dangerous and need to be fixed.
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November 2019
Council report recommends high-rise in Ashmore, Bundall, Biggera Waters, Nerang, Burleigh Heads to Robina, Miami, Nobby, Coolangatta and Rainbow Beach, as well a cruise ship terminal and another casino.
Gold Coast Bulletin / Read Full Article
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November 2019
Labrador residents have scored their first win in a protest against increased building heights.
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November 2019
After the huge increase in interest in the City Plan Amendments compared with previous iterations, Gold Coast City Planners have much homework to do.
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November 2019
New council mapping shows which suburbs will targeted for, and which will be protected from, building height increases.
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November 2019
Cr Cameron Caldwell finds "good news" in the latest report on the dire Koala situation.
Gold Coast Bulletin / Read Full Article
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November 2019
Residents warned that Labrador will follow Palm Beach and become the Gold Coast’s next high rise suburb.
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October 2019
Gold Coast City Council must protect whistleblowers because more meetings are being held in confidential sessions, warns a senior councillor Dawn Crichlow.
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October 2019
State MP is staging an urgent meeting with city council powerbrokers to discuss “insane” high-rise plans for Labrador.
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October 2019
Of more than 3,900 developments approved in the city in the past year, councillors were directly involved in giving the go-ahead to just 48.
Gold Coast Bulletin / Read Full Article
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October 2019
Extreme weather events will lash the Gold Coast regulalry.
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October 2019
Crystal Creek development slated for wildlife corridor.
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October 2019
Unfinished road heading directly into bushland that has yet to be cleared speaks volumes about the uneasy relationship between people and wildlife on the Gold Coast.
Gold Coast Bulletin / Read Full Article
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september 2019
Veteran Gold Coast councillor and local residents have shared their disappointment after a multi-million dollar project was unveiled in a major suburb over the weekend.
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september 2019
6-storey low-rise beachfront at Surfers Paradise being replaced by 15-storey 113 one-bedroom suites for short-term accommodation.
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september 2019
Tate’s defensive about suggestions by Councillors that he’s conflicted in the cableway debate.
Gold Coast Bulletin / Read Full Article
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september 2019
A tower with picture-perfect views of the beach and parkland is being proposed for a site smaller than many suburban house blocks.
Gold Coast Bulletin / Read Full Article
august 2019
Any kind of progress comes as a detriment to our natural space. Bit by bit we are seeing these trees go, we feel pretty defeated .
Gold Coast Bulletin / Read Full Article
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August 2019
ISLE of Capri residents furious about lack of consultation on plans to build a new $34 million bridge. Where was the consultation with stakeholder ratepayers? Who did council talk to?
Gold Coast Bulletin / Read Full Article
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July 2019
Several councillors believe more input has to be provided to the City Plan on density, given the focus had been on height.
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