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Gold Coast

Breaking News: Todays Top Stories from Australia

21 August 2010 Australian Climate
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The Main Story on Seven News Welcome to my first ever blog post on a Saturday. Yes, it is Saturday, but only just. It’s 1 AM Saturday morning here and I do usually like to post a little earlier than this. Like on Friday! I am late for a reason, you will find out why [...]

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A Day at Byron Bay

8 February 2010 Australia's Places
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As you may recall from last week, we decided to escape to the beach for a while just so we could get away from the whirling swirling wind tunnel known as our bedrooms. Where we live in Brisbane may not be on the beach, but for some time we have been grateful to live in [...]

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Nothing More Relaxing Than Fish

15 June 2009 Entertainment Australia

Last week I mentioned that it was Queensland’s 150th birthday. To celebrate that, some time back in February the owners of some of the theme parks over at the Gold Coast put together a special deal. For just $50 per child and $80 per adult they were selling passes which gave unlimited entry to three [...]

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Wet and Wild and Wet and Weird!

2 March 2009 Australia's Bad Things

On Sunday we decided to have a family day out.  So my wife and I and my son and daughter headed for Wet and Wild, a water park on the Gold Coast.  It’s very rare that all four of us go out together on account of the fact that my son, aged 22, stayed in [...]

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Australia vs England at House Prices

26 February 2009 Australia vs UK

About a month ago the fifth annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey (I must have missed the first four) claimed that Australia has some of the worlds most expensive housing, quoting the Gold Coast and the Sunshine Coast as being in the top five of the least affordable areas in the world. I don’t get [...]

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