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Earlier than the solar rises over the Pacific tomorrow, a majority of Gold Coasters will collect in quiet reverence.
From the hinterland all the way down to Currumbin’s Elephant Rock, the sands of Surfers Paradise and to Coolangatta’s corners in Goodwin Park, hundreds will stand shoulder to shoulder at daybreak companies and memorials, in the dead of night, quiet, and, doubtlessly, rain, honouring the braveness and sacrifice of our women and men who gave their all for us.
For me, it is an additional big day in that it occurs to be my women’ birthdays.
A day for remembrance, reflection, appreciation, and celebration.
Lengthy dwell the reminiscence of our Anzacs and the sacrifices they made to assist make this place the most effective on this planet.
We are going to keep in mind them.
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One Large Factor: Farewell to Mr Media of the Gold Coast
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A Magent web site go to has been: Confirmed for GC Well being
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A St Andrew’s scholar honours: Our ANZACs
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Trending: Captain Cooked..
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Round The Net (Snippets): Full checklist of Gold Coast ANZAC Day companies and road closures, scientists uncover an unprecedented new color, Peter Pan cane toads and extra
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By Marshall Corridor
What’s Taking place: Gold Coast radio icon Ian Cousins has died, aged 77.
Why It Issues: From 4GG to Sea FM, from the Gold Coast Indy to main civic boards, Cousins’ four-decade profession formed town’s media and neighborhood life.
Cousins didn’t simply broadcast to the Coast – he constructed it, leveraging his affect that prolonged throughout tourism, sport, enterprise, and public occasions, serving to to outline the fashionable Gold Coast and what it has turn into right this moment.
By the Numbers
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Cousins spent 29 years on the Gold Coast Enterprise Excellence Awards committee
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26 years of these as its President
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19 years have been labored in high media roles throughout radio and TV
Native Impression: He was a driving power behind occasions like the primary Gold Coast Indy and town’s Commonwealth Video games bid, making him a key participant in placing the Coast on the map.
Legacy To Final: From boardrooms to broadcasts, Cousins lived and breathed town he helped elevate with service because the:
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Chairman of the Tremendous GP occasions advisory committee
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Chairman of the Gold Coast Group Fund
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Board member of the Gold Coast Tourism Bureau (now Expertise Gold Coast)
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Member of the South Coast Hearth Brigade
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Member of the Gold Coast Liaison Committee for the Commonwealth Video games
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Member of the Gold Coast Media Membership
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Member of Gold Coast Tropicarnival
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Steering Committee member for Griffith College’s Enterprise Faculty
Paying Respects: The funeral might be held on Tuesday, April 29, at 11:00 a.m. at The Gathering Church, 56 Caloola Drive, Tweed Heads.
Magnet web site go to confirmed for Gold Coast Well being
What’s Taking place: Gold Coast Well being has secured a Magnet web site go to from 9 to 13 June 2025, marking a significant step in its reapplication for the globally revered Magnet Recognition Program, the best worldwide normal for excellence in nursing and interprofessional care.
What’s Taking place: St Andrew’s Lutheran School captain Heath McLachlan has returned from a robust tour of the Western Entrance, the place he honoured ANZACs by laying a wreath on the Menin Gate’s nightly Final Submit Ceremony in Ypres, Belgium.
Why It Issues: Heath’s journey bridges previous and current, providing a private connection to Australia’s wartime historical past whereas reinforcing the enduring worth of remembrance.
By the Numbers
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295,000+ Australians served on the Western Entrance
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Round 46,000 misplaced their lives there
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The Final Submit has sounded at Menin Gate nightly since 1928 (excluding WWII)
Native Impression: His function within the ceremony brings the ANZAC legacy house to the Gold Coast, inspiring native college students to interact with historical past past the classroom.
Historical past Walks in New Boots: Heath walked trenches the place ANZACs as soon as fought, giving new weight to the poppies we put on and the silence we preserve.
What The Folks Say
“It was an unimaginable honour to symbolize my faculty,” Heath stated.
“These tales aren’t simply historical past – they’re our heritage,” added battlefield historian Mat McLachlan.
What To Look For Subsequent: The complete article about Heath’s journey on the hyperlink beneath.
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Primarily based in Coomera, you’ll be the digital voice behind Dreamworld, WhiteWater World and the Evening Market.
Suppose Insta reels, cheeky captions, experience launches, and sky-high views — no day the identical.
The wage’s underneath wraps (although Search filters say $120,000+), however perks embody free entry, juicy reductions, free parking, and sufficient content material to gasoline your portfolio (and your ego) for years. 🎢
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Instagram is utilizing AI to seek out teenagers mendacity about their: Age and proscribing their accounts to make sure customers underneath 16 are sticking to their Teen Accounts – 97% of younger customers have remained of their required teen accounts.
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Right here’s the total checklist launched by Gold Coast Police of the: ANZAC Day street closures
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Scientists say they’ve found a brand new: Color, which is an ‘unprecedented’ hue, often called olo, and has solely ever been seen by 5 individuals
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Native star Margot Robbie was noticed absorbing the solar on a Gold Coast seaside with: Husband Tom Ackerley, simply months after welcoming their first baby. The actress is having fun with a break from filming a brand new adaptation of Wuthering Heights.
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Simply from up the street within the Redlands, Henry Pike MP has secured a agency $8.3 million pledge from the: Dutton LNP to reinstate the Native Title Respondent and Officer Scheme, supporting councils, farmers and others navigating native title claims over the following 4 years.
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“Peter Pan” cane toads have been: Gene-edited to by no means develop up may save Australian tropical ecosystems
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Prime Minister Albanese has terribly defended Nazi posts made by the Labor candidate working towards: Peter Dutton after it emerged she tweeted faked pictures of the opposition chief carrying a Nazi uniform.
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Protests towards Elon Musk and Tesla have been: Spreading world wide
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The Von Bibra Gold Coast Working Pageant is: Coming again to the Sunshine State
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Human-like robots raced towards individuals for the primary time in: China’s inaugural Robotic Marathon Runners occasion, the place android rivals emitted smoke, tripped, and ultimately fell aside.
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🎤 The Ten Tenors – thirtieth Anniversary World Tour, April 24; Expertise the highly effective harmonies of The Ten Tenors at The Star Gold Coast as they rejoice three a long time of rock, pop, and opera.
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ANZAC DAY
Lest we overlook
Our Diggers didn’t die for us to obsess over our egocentric needs, worship cash and turn into complacent to the very actual wants of the world!
Our Diggers fought, suffered and have been sacrificed for all the world to know true peace above all else. To construct goodwill and belief between nations so all future generations ceaselessly respect this sacrifice by all the time respecting one another.
ALL humanity; all international locations, races and cultures embraced throughout the goodwill of our hearts, results in peace on earth.
Might minds of goodwill in all places meet in a spirit of cooperation.
Might forgiveness on the a part of all be the keynote on at the present time.
Let the Spirit of Peace be unfold overseas
Make it actual? Then place your hand in your chest, smile, take a deep breath and breathe out like to ALL our brothers and sisters the world over. For this second our Diggers are alive, and so is all that they fought for.
Might peace begin with us! Might goodwill govern your coronary heart, your thoughts and your actions.
So let it’s, and assist us to do our half.
