Push to scrap Gold Coast Schoolies after pictures and videos expose destroyed luxury hotel rooms

THE Government will be given a Schoolies dirt file which shows last year’s event was a violent and drug-fuelled party where youths destroyed a luxury Gold Coast apartment. WATCH THE VIDEO

THE State Government will be given a Schoolies dirt file showing a violent and drug-fuelled party at last year’s festival where youths destroyed a luxury Gold Coast apartment.

A video obtained by the Gold Coast Bulletin shows police questioning teens after more than 60 students smashed a unit wall and furniture, leaving a $40,000 repair bill.

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Photographs show topless Year 12 school leavers dancing on balconies, bongs left in stairwells and human faeces spread throughout building common areas.

A trashed Schoolies apartment on the Gold Coast.

The damage in the trashed Schoolies apartment on the Gold Coast.

For the first time, body corporates behind some of the biggest towers in Surfers Paradise will lobby the government for an “exit strategy” for Schoolies within three years.

Some are holding back spending millions of dollars on common areas aware they will be trashed again by schoolies.

Angry unit owners have asked for a meeting with Communities Minister Shannon Fentiman when the Government governs on the Coast next week.

“We have to work on an exit strategy for the next two-to-three years for Schoolies,” body corporate reform group leader George Friend said.

Residents say what went on inside apartments during Schoolies 2016 was a disgrace.

Released on the condition that the building was not identified, the dirt file shows:

* 61 noise breaches on the first week of Schoolies and 60 on the second, 10 times more than a regular week.

* 36 emergency services attendances, including five for potential suicides or drug overdoses.

* Police attended six fights, investigated a sexual assault and found four schoolies with drugs.

* 13 schoolies were evicted, six for drug possession with the rest sent home after causing unit damage, making excessive noise or balcony hopping.

A young school leaver parties topless on a balcony.

* A knife was thrown from a balcony which became embedded in an outdoor pool area.

* 48 reports of fire doors being jammed.

* Schoolies urinated outside the security office, in the lobby area against the lifts and on the rocks in a sauna room.

* Blood was found in the lift along with faeces in common areas and on balconies.

* The pool was closed due to broken glass after bottles were tossed from balconies, and when the cleaner worked on repair he was targeted with cans.

Glass damage during Schoolies.

The report details 13 separate incidents of schoolies passing out on common areas, and one school leaver having to be removed from a residents lounge after fighting with a guest.

“First aid was given to semiconscious collapsed female on the driveway, QAS arrived, (she was) taken to hospital,” the report said.

Given the number of call-outs, the report asks “is the level of violence and assaults under reported in high-rise buildings”.

On the noise disturbances, the report said: “An extremely noticeable spike occurs during schoolies. This is totally unacceptable and disrespectful for the residents of this building.”

Body corporate reform leader George Friend has requested a meeting with the Government to develop an exit strategy for Schoolies. Picture: Jerad Williams

Residents are being advised that they can tell letting agents “I don’t want to be part of the Schoolies event”.

“This is the one way you can help protect our building,” the report said.

Mr Friend: “This is the tipping point. This is my 17th Schoolies I’ve lived through. Last year was the first time we’ve experienced the damage we had.

“My partner said we have to go away next year. I’ve been driven out of my home.”