Gold Coast Schoolies: List of the biggest and wildest stories over the years
It's been home to a lot over the years and the Bulletin has been there to cover every aspect of Schoolies. We look back at the wildest stories over the years. RELIVE YOUR SCHOOLIES YEAR
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IT'S been home to a lot over the years and the Bulletin has been there to cover every aspect of Schoolies. We look back at the wildest stories over the years.
ULTIMATE GALLERY: Craziest Schoolies photos - 1995-2019
How Gold Coast partied on Surfers Paradise beach 20 years ago in 1997
IMAGINE seeing Silverchair and The Offspring play a gig on Surfers Paradise Beach. This dream double-header was a reality of the 1997 Schoolies Festival as school leavers let their hair down to party.
How Schoolies let their hair down back in 2003
IT was a rowdy start to schoolies for this class, with a TV hurling out the window of a high-rise and grubs using their camera phones to take photos of girls.
Gold Coast Schoolies were warned after police pounced on a big fake ID ring - 2004
SCHOOLIES! You had been warned — hand in those fake IDs or the police will track you down.
Complete gallery to the 2013 Schoolies
TAKE a look back at all the crazy antics from the 2013 Schoolies.
What are 36,000 teenagers really up to during a week of freedom on the Gold Coast - 2014
CATCH up with what 36,000 school leavers are up to during their week of freedom, we let the teens tell the story.
Schoolies reminded not to walk home alone as reports of sexual assaults in Surfers Paradise - 2014
SEVERAL sexual assault complaints have been made over the past four days of schoolies celebrations, prompting warnings for teens not to walk alone at night.
Five major Gold Coast Schoolies moments from decades of celebrations and partying - 2016
FOR this year’s school leavers, the pilgrimage to the Gold Coast for Schoolies is the end of one world — and the start of another.
Miami High graduate Emma Courtney was killed as report pushed council merger - 2016
A CELEBRATING 17-year-old Gold Coast girl was dead and another on life support following a tragic start to Schoolies’ Week.
Surfers Paradise becomes Schoolies ‘no party zone’ as body corporates ban boozefests in luxury towers - 2017
LUXURY accommodation towers on the Gold Coast are putting up the “No Party Sign” in the first shots in the war against this year’s Schoolies.
No action planned on balcony ban - 2018
SCHOOLIES organisers have gone silent in the wake of a fatal balcony fall on the Gold Coast with accommodation providers continuing to let them use the balconies.
The true cost of inhaling a ‘nang’ - 2018
THIS mother says drastic steps should be taken to make it harder for school leavers to get their hands on ‘nangs’. She should know. She has seen the true cost inhaling nitrous oxide first hand — in her own son.
Schoolies on Gold Coast claim they spent thousands on ‘nangs’ and alcohol - 2018
TEENAGERS attending Schoolies on the Gold Coast claim they are spending thousands of dollars on dangerous nitrous oxide chargers and inhaling them.
77 Schoolies treated overnight - 2019
POLICE and paramedics saw another busy night in Surfers Paradise last night with a large crowd descending on the Cavill Ave for day six of schoolies.
'Complete washout' : Shock change to Gold Coast Schoolies - 2020
GOLD Coast Schoolies is being dubbed “a complete washout” by the nation’s peak accommodation body as the COVID-19 bloodletting continues.
‘Ridiculous’: GC party venue slams council rejection of midnight fun
The owner of one of the city’s few queer and gay friendly venues is questioning why council repeatedly knocks back his trading hours push. FULL STORY
Family claims ‘nothing but crickets’ from childcare in breach of laws
A family embroiled in a legal fight with a Gold Coast early learning centre which breached child safety laws, including drawing on their kid, claims it has stopped responding to emails. Full story.