Forget boots made for walking. Over the past 50 years, the Gold Coast has marched to the tune of thongs, the white shoe brigade, and now haute couture stilettos.
Once the preserve of that 1980s icon Jupiters Casino, fast food joints serving $8 all-you-can-eat breakfasts and colourful property developers in shiny footwear, the Gold Coast is gentrifying in the lead up to the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
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Fiona Carruthers has written and edited travel for the Financial Review for almost a decade. She has held senior roles with ABC Radio National, Deutsche Welle Radio, TIME and The Australian, and was deputy editor of Traveller. Email Fiona at fcarruthers@afr.com
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