Welcome again to the GC Minute; it’s 2025, and our first epic weekly e-newsletter for the yr!
We sincerely thanks for sharing 2024 with us and stay up for persevering with to develop with you throughout one other energy-filled 12 months forward.
It’s January 2 🏝️ 😎
‼️ Native Enjoyable Reality: With roughly 2,715 hours of sunshine yearly (7.4 hours a day), the GC is without doubt one of the sunniest locations in Australia.
Whereas it might not rival Australia’s desert areas like Alice Springs or coastal Perth for whole solar hours, it actually outshines many city areas.
Don’t overlook the sunscreen..
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One Massive Factor: January 4’s $6m Magic Thousands and thousands twilight race
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The 2025 Gold Coast Sportfishing: All-species basic
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ICYMI: All of the GC Minute #1s of 2024
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50 years of restoration and: Renewal on the GC
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Trending: Massive automobiles in small areas at Bunnings
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Across the internet (Snippets): A 4K stroll by NYE Surfers Paradise, Tesla Cybertruck explodes, a large mammalian comeback story, and extra!
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Upcoming occasions
This week – Lights, digital camera, content material 🎥 Bond College in Robina is after a Social Media & Content material Producer to make waves on TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, and past.
With a wage of $83,053.24 + 12% tremendous and 17.5% depart loading, this two-year, full-time gig is ideal for a artistic genius who loves turning concepts into scroll-stopping tales.
Purposes shut 5:00 pm, Sunday, February 2 2025.
Need to promote a job right here?
Contact us👇
The 2025 Gold Coast All-Species Basic is again and shall be hitting the water on 18–19 January.
Hosted by the Gold Coast Sportfishing Membership, the two-day competitors invitations anglers of all ranges to compete throughout inshore and offshore classes—or simply inshore if climate dictates.
It’s an epic occasion selling sustainable fishing, fostering group spirit, and celebrating Queensland’s first-class marine biodiversity.
• $95 entry payment (simply $50 for juniors).
• 8 species classes like Mangrove Jack and Mahi Mahi.
• Groups of two–3 anglers over two days.
The catch-and-release format helps conservation, whereas clubhouse shows enhance native engagement and camaraderie amongst one of many metropolis’s hottest leisure actions.
Extra particulars on the way to register and the total article beneath👇
Lives Lived Properly has celebrated 50 years of reworking lives on the Gold Coast by Mirikai, a famend residential rehab service.
Since 1981, Mirikai has grown from a modest brick home right into a pivotal centre for substance restoration.
This milestone highlights 5 many years of life-changing influence, providing hope and options for these going through substance use challenges.
• 276 folks have been supported in 2023–2024 alone, with 95% mattress occupancy.
• 96% of shoppers reported improved high quality of life, whereas 98% lowered substance use inside three months.
• 97.6% satisfaction is the care consequence coming from affected person surveys.
Fifty years on and following hundreds having rebuilt their lives there, Mirikai stays a cornerstone of the local people, leaning on its six to 12-week program that helps equip shoppers with abilities for restoration and reintegration.
CEO Mitchell Giles and employees, together with former client-turned-manager Vicky Mouatt, mirror on Mirikai’s inspiring journey.
The complete article and extra pics, beneath👇
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The GC welcomed in 2025 in: Type with a large fireworks show
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Listed here are the 51 most disruptive: Startups of 2024
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The Boss Rent Blues line-up for the: 2025 Gympie Music Muster
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From 40,000 in 2004 to 2.8 million in 2024, here’s a story about: One of the crucial important mammal recoveries ever recorded
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A 4k New 12 months’s Eve: Road stroll by Surfers Paradise
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A lethal terrorist assault this morning in: New Orleans killed 15 folks
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Tesla Cybertruck explodes exterior Donal Trump’s: Las Vegas Lodge, discovered to be full of fireworks and gasoline canisters
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1,000 Optimus humanoid robots will: Be working at Tesla this yr
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The Tremendous Financial institution and Snapper Rocks are set to return as: A Champion Tour cease in 2025 👇
🌔 Magic by Moonlight: January 2 to January 26 from 5:30 pm to 10 pm; awe-inspiring, charming out of doors areas adorned with over 400 charming gentle installations at Broadwater Parklands, Southport Marine Parade
🐎 Pacific Honest Magic Thousands and thousands Polo & Showjumping: January 5 from 12 pm onwards; witness a number of the nation’s greatest Junior and Senior Showjumpers at Doug Jennings Park, Seaworld Drive
🏷 Magic Thousands and thousands Gold Coast Yearling Sale: January 7 to January 13 from 12 pm onwards; inside minutes of the sale complicated are limitless seashores, hinterland adventures, golf programs, amusement parks and extra at Magic Thousands and thousands Gross sales Advanced
✨ The Star Gold Coast Magic Thousands and thousands Barrier Draw: January 7 from 6 am onwards; the draw for the AUD2 million Gold Coast Magic Thousands and thousands Guineas shall be held on the Surfers Paradise Foreshore, The Esplanade, Reverse Trickett Road
🏀 U18 Ladies and Boys State Championships: January 8 to January 12 from 8 am to five pm; the premier junior consultant match within the Basketball Queensland calendar, that includes groups from Cairns to the Gold Coast at Gold Coast Sport & Leisure Centre
🦸🏼♂️ Superhero Energy Up – Palm Seaside: January 9 from 10 am to 12 pm; a workshop for youths to discover their interior power and creativity. Led by a certified Inventive Arts Therapist at 1 Thrower Drive, Palm Seaside
