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Kirstin PayneSenior Journalist

Kirstin Payne is a senior reporter for the Gold Coast Bulletin who covers current affairs, health and education.

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Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott pictured at the Reedy Creek landfill site with local Mayor Tom Tate and Federal Member for McPherson Karen Andrews. Councils are about to be hit with the carbon tax on landfill site sites

Mayor: ‘No concern’ about possible council job cuts

Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate has weighed in as more than 100 council staff fear their jobs may be at risk, revealing why he isn’t concerned.

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Nurse Roger Parker working in Melbourne.

Gold Coast nurse fighting Qld Health for job

After a Gold Coast nurse volunteered to battle the coronavirus crisis in Melbourne, he now finds himself fighting Queensland Health for his job.

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Burleigh Heads State School Principal Peter Tong at work. Picture Glenn Hampson

Why this principal quit NRL career to teach

LISTEN HERE: Principal of one of the oldest Gold Coast Schools, Peter Tong opens up on his upbringing as a child deaf parents, and why he quit his career with the Queensland Crushers for the classroom.

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A Tamborine local, Ketrina Baird, is fighting an extremely rare form of cancer called Leiomyosarcoma. She is the second Australian to have ever been diagnosed. Picture Glenn Hampson

‘It’s breaking me’: Coast woman in plea for help over costly treatment

KETRINA Baird has only one hope of recovery after being the second person in Australia diagnosed with an extremely rare form of cancer, unfortunately, that hope comes at a price.

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Save palm beach library movement if gaining momentum. Locals have pooled funds to hand out brochures on the matter and are hanging signs from their homes. Megan Buckley and Trish Pilarksi and locals standing out the front of the Palm Beach Community Lounge and Library. Picture: Jerad Williams

Friends of Palm Beach Library in fight to save community facility

A PUSH to save the Palm Beach library has started a new chapter, with locals launching a novel solution to prevent the council from closing the book on the 40-year-old institution.

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Keine Santos and her partner Ricardo Scandolara had all of their worldy possessions stolen last week. Now she needs help from the community to get it back after the police have failed to help. Ricardo Scandolara, Richard Scandolara 3, Henrique Scandolara 7 and Keine Santos at their Surfers Paradise home. Picture Glenn Hampson

‘We lost everything’: Family’s despair after car stolen during house move

A Gold Coast family have been left devastated after losing their most precious possessions when their car was stolen while they were in the middle of moving house.

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FULL LIST: Worst suburbs for car theft on the Gold Coast

If you own one of these cars you’ll need to be vigilant, with new statistics showing the vehicles most popular with thieves on the Gold Coast and the suburbs they’re most likely to be taken from. SEE THE FULL LIST

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Izmir, Turkey - April, 2019: A man scratching ticket of Turkish lottery in the street at the stand of a lottery ticket seller.

‘Thought it was a joke’: Gold Coast woman wins $50k on April Fool’s

A Gold Coast woman has revealed she thought she was being pranked when she won $50,000 on April Fool’s Day.

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Chief Health Officer Dr Jeanette Young. Deputy Premier Steven Miles holding a press conference at Parliament House. Pic Peter Wallis

Covid warning at Gold Coast venue

Contact tracers have issued a COVID-19 warning to people who visited a popular Gold Coast venue.

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‘Why I had to apply for 855 jobs’

It took stroke victim David Franks four years and 855 job applications he finally found an employer to give him a chance – now he’s trying to share an important message with the Gold Coast.

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