A famous South Stradbroke island resort has come under fire after numerous Gold Coast businesses claim their staff Christmas parties were ruined when partygoers were left stranded — but the operator is claiming sabotage.
IF you are planning a seafood feast for your Christmas lunch, be prepared to dig deeper into your pockets. Having the traditional feast is going to be far more expensive this year.
They’re saviours and social workers, but it’s the rescues you don’t see on the news that define these local heroes.
Meet the couple so obsessed by Australia’s best swim spots that they spent a year travelling the country to rank the definitive list. And their top pick isn’t where you might expect.
SURF lifesaving’s head honcho says migrants wanting to live in Australia should pass tests about swimming between the red and yellow flags to help save lives.
IT is difficult to pick the barrister marching down a Gold Coast beach without the wig and gown, or even the Trade Minister tucking into a chicken parmigiana inside a surf club.
THE BEACH expert known as “Dr Rip’’ has stunned the lifesaving community with an attack on Australia’s iconic red and yellow patrol flags, declaring them “useless’’ because too many swimmers ignore them.
A NORTHERN NSW lifesaving boss says he feels a “niggle” watching rivers of gold flow into some Glitter Strip surf life saving clubs.
THE 22-year-old who died at Coolangatta on Christmas Day has been farewelled by hundreds who turned up with flowers and donations.
ONE of the Gold Coast’s leading tourism and surf lifesaving figures is furious over the $15m Kurrawa SLSC redevelopment, saying it threatens to take the movement in an “alarming direction”.
LIFEGUARDS have a blunt message to swimmers wanting to take a dip at the internationally renowned Duranbah Beach this summer: stay away.
INTERNATIONAL student Ravneet Singh Gill had one plan for Christmas Day away from his family: go to the beach. It was a decision that ultimately led to the 22-year-old’s death.
LIFESAVERS performed a “mass rescue” at Tallebudgera Creek this afternoon after a group of people attempted to swim from one side to the other.
SURGING outgoing afternoon tides and the lure of an unusual sand bank for unsuspecting swimmers are turning this creek into a potential death trap over Christmas, warn lifeguards.
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