Revealed: How Coast won the Games
NEXT week’s Commonwealth Games opening ceremony is a moment 10 years in the making. Here’s how the Gold Coast got the Games.
History
How Coast celebrated the 1982 Games
THE Gold Coast Commonwealth Games are little more than a week away. But those old enough are remembering back to the days before our last Games and the day we met Matilda the winking roo.
Where Coast cruise ship terminal should be built
FROM inside the Broadwater to an offshore jetty, there’s no shortage of proposed locations for the controversial Gold Coast cruise ship terminal.
$120 million blowout in M1 upgrade cost
THE M1 is the Gold Coast’s busiest road and often falls victim to gridlock and traffic accidents. So how did the cost of its upgrade blow out by $120 million?
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Flashback: Labor’s “Boomerang” plan
AN election technique perfected by the National Party was considered by the Labor Party in a bid to win back the Gold Coast seat of Albert.
Flashback: Tugun Bypass $80m price
TRAFFIC congestion annoys anyone who gets stuck in gridlock and in the late 1990s and early 2000s the city’s south was affected badly.
Flashback: 1991 Gulf War tensions
THOUSANDS of Japanese tourists cancelled their holidays to the Gold Coast because of the terrorist threat created by the Gulf War as Israel was attacked.
Flashback: Coast land rights fight
AN Aboriginal land rights battle was to focus on Tweed Heads three days before the Brisbane Commonwealth Games were to be held.
Flashback: The travel rorts affair
THE Criminal Justice Commission was intimidated and threatened by state MPs during its year-long investigation into travel allowances, said its chairman, Sir Max Bingham.
Flashback: Olympic torch scandal
THE Olympic torch lighting ceremony was overshadowed by controversy over the decision to make an Australian IOC member’s daughter the first torchbearer.
Flashback: Coast collapse tragedy
A MAN buried alive in a trench near Nerang tugged desperately on a rope for two minutes while his workmates tried frantically to save him.
Flashback: Casino mafia threat fear
TWO leading Gold Coast National Party MPs gave conflicting views about the significance of a mafia threat to the Gold Coast’s future Jupiters Casino.
Flashback: Tweed hospital crisis
THERE were fears the Gold Coast Hospital would have a “serious patient crisis” on its hands unless 40 surgeons ended a strike at Tweed Heads.
Flashback: The Childers disaster
PLEASE find out why was the simple message from a stunned nation following the Childers fire which claimed the lives of 15 people in 2000
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