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A bottlenose dolphin born at Sea World on Queensland's Gold Coast is the theme park's first male calf in nine years under its captive dolphin breeding program.
Topics: human-interest, animals, the-spit-4217, qld, australia, southport-4215
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| UpdatedA Gold Coast community group vows to fight a proposal to raise the three-storey height limit of buildings at the Southport Spit.
Topics: activism-and-lobbying, urban-development-and-planning, community-and-society, government-and-politics, tourism, company-news, business-economics-and-finance, the-spit-4217, qld, australia, southport-4215
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Details are released for a $3 billion resort development at The Spit on Queensland's Gold Coast — but any development would still be years away, as it needs approval from the State Government.
Topics: regional, urban-development-and-planning, regional-development, local-government, activism-and-lobbying, public-sector, the-spit-4217, southport-4215, qld
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Topics: local-government, urban-development-and-planning, the-spit-4217
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Gold Coast city councillors have delayed a decision on a controversial high-rise application for The Spit.
Topics: local-government, urban-development-and-planning, the-spit-4217
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| UpdatedThe State Government is refusing to confirm details of a Chinese-backed company's plans for a $3 billion casino and residential development at the Spit on the Gold Coast.
Topics: government-and-politics, community-and-society, urban-development-and-planning, the-spit-4217
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| UpdatedElite lifesavers on the Gold Coast perform a series of night-time training exercises to brush up on their skills.
Topics: people, emergency-planning, the-spit-4217, southport-4215
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Topics: urban-development-and-planning, local-government, laws, crime, the-spit-4217
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Topics: urban-development-and-planning, local-government, laws, crime, the-spit-4217
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Gold Coast City Council is seeking new powers to stop camping overnight on the Southport Spit.
Topics: urban-development-and-planning, local-government, laws, crime, the-spit-4217
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| UpdatedSnake experts are warning locals to be alert after a fire forced poisonous snakes to move towards popular areas of the Gold Coast.
Topics: animals, animal-attacks, reptiles, bushfire, the-spit-4217
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Topics: bushfire, animal-attacks, animals, reptiles, the-spit-4217
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Topics: bushfire, animals, animal-attacks, reptiles, the-spit-4217
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The search for a boa constrictor in bushland on Queensland's Gold Coast is suspended, but the authorities will install signs warning that the snake may be in the area.
Topics: emergency-incidents, endangered-and-protected-species, the-spit-4217, southport-4215
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| UpdatedAuthorities search on the Gold Coast after a two-metre South American boa constrictor was released by police who wrongly believed it was a harmless python.
Topics: emergency-incidents, endangered-and-protected-species, the-spit-4217, southport-4215
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| UpdatedA marine researcher on Queensland's Gold Coast says conditions for dugongs in Moreton Bay have improved after the environment was badly affected by Brisbane's 2011 floods.
Topics: marine-biology, mammals, mammals---whales, cape-moreton-4025, the-spit-4217, southport-4215
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| UpdatedEnvironmentalists have vowed to fight the proposed construction of a second casino and cruise ship terminal on Queensland's Gold Coast.
Topics: activism-and-lobbying, regional, urban-development-and-planning, gambling, regional-development, sea-transport, tourism, public-sector, local-government, the-spit-4217, southport-4215
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| UpdatedThe second polar bear to be born in Australia is celebrating his first birthday on Queensland's Gold Coast today.
Topics: animals, the-spit-4217
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Queensland police have confirmed three of the four bones found by divers in the Gold Coast seaway are not human.
Topics: crime, the-spit-4217, southport-4215
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| UpdatedMore bones have been found in the Gold Coast seaway as Queensland police continue to search the area for suspected human remains.
Topics: crime, southport-4215, the-spit-4217
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| UpdatedPolice divers are searching Queensland's Gold Coast seaway after the discovery of a bone suspected of being human.
Topics: crime, southport-4215, the-spit-4217
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| UpdatedState Development Minister Jeff Seeney says the Gold Coast City Council needs to make it clear if it supports the proposed Broadwater marine development in the south-east Queensland city.
Topics: local-government, public-sector, activism-and-lobbying, regional, urban-development-and-planning, regional-development, tourism, sea-transport, the-spit-4217, southport-4215
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Division among the Gold Coast City Council over the proposed cruise ship terminal development has been revealed after Queensland Premier Campbell Newman threatened to pull support for the project.
Topics: local-government, public-sector, activism-and-lobbying, regional, urban-development-and-planning, the-spit-4217, southport-4215