Welcome again to a different stunning Gold Coast Minute Thursday afternoon, it’s July 17.
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One Huge Factor: Metropolis beefs up inexperienced credentials with massive buy
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20 years sturdy as: Kokoda Problem returns to the Gold Coast
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Sanctuary Cove to host: Girls’s WPGA Championship
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Trending: Resting as an alternative of shopping for property..
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Round The Internet (Snippets): An precise AI laser mozzie zapper, new medical hashish guidelines, Gen X ladies drive daytime clubbing in Surfers and heaps extra
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By Marshall Corridor
What’s Taking place: The Metropolis of Gold Coast has purchased over 100 hectares of ecologically vital land in Mount Nathan, including to its long-term conservation property below the Pure Areas Acquisition Program.
Why It Issues: Including to the present 14,000+ hectares of conservation property they’ve already acquired, the newest buy types an important wildlife hall between Nerang Nationwide Park and Decrease Beechmont, strengthening town’s environmental resilience and biodiversity protections.
By the Numbers
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143 hectares in complete have been snapped up for near $4 million
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It’s the eighth buy Council has made since 2021, with these eight alone comprising 322.7 hectares
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There aren’t any 800+ protected reserves throughout town
Native Affect: Koalas and the Shiny Black Cockatoo simply scored an even bigger yard—and the remainder of us profit from stronger biodiversity and local weather buffers.
What The Individuals Say
Mayor Tom Tate mentioned “This space is extremely vital habitat for threatened native species together with the Shiny Black Cockatoo and koalas.
“It additionally supplies the Metropolis with a chance to boost the habitat by restoration and the usage of potential offsets.”
What To Look For Subsequent: Anticipate extra buys below the Pure Areas Acquisition Program as Council continues linking reserves and buffering biodiversity hotspots throughout the hinterland.
Within the meantime, try the totally interactive map under of dialog areas.
20 years sturdy as Kokoda Problem returns to Gold Coast
What’s occurring? The Kokoda Problem returns to the Gold Coast from 19–20 July 2025, marking its twentieth yr of testing endurance, mateship and resilience. Often known as Australia’s hardest crew endurance occasion, it winds by the Gold Coast Hinterland throughout three..
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By Marshall Corridor
What’s Taking place: After being washed out by Cyclone Alfred earlier this yr, the Australian WPGA Championship will make its comeback from 19–22 March in 2026, this time as a standalone match, full with the Competition of Golf.
Why It Issues: It’s a large win for the Gold Coast sporting calendar and girls’s sport nationally, coming sizzling on the heels of Grace Kim and Minjee Lee’s current back-to-back main wins on the world stage, the primary time two totally different Australians have received consecutive ladies’s majors.
By the Numbers
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The 4-day match will run from 19–22 March subsequent yr
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Basic admission is free; with Champions Lounge tickets from $250 through Ticketek
Gold Coast, on par: Subsequent March, Sanctuary Cove will turn out to be the epicentre of elite ladies’s golf, drawing followers, media, and massive {dollars} again to the area after this yr’s cancellation.
What the Individuals Say
WPGA Tour of Australasia CEO Karen Lunn mentioned she is trying ahead to the return of the occasion, particularly after this yr’s cancellation.
“The Gold Coast is the proper stage for the Australian WPGA Championship to showcase among the greatest feminine golfers on the earth,”.
Sanctuary Cove Golf and Nation Membership CEO Paul Sanders mentioned they have been thrilled to be concerned within the Australian WPGA Championship in 2026.
“As one of many best-integrated resorts in Australia, our world-class amenities, together with the not too long ago renovated The Palms golf course, will present an unparalleled expertise for gamers, spectators, and the group.
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Eight many years after a violin made in 1709, often called the: “Small Mendelssohn” disappeared in WWII, specialists suppose they’ve situated it in Japan
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Chimps are sticking grass of their ears and: Rears as they embrace a bizarre however ‘pointless’ fad
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Name of Obligation cheaters are complaining after: Activision launched a brand new wave of mass-bans
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Gen X ladies are driving a surge in daytime: Clubbing on the Gold Coast
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Laser tag for mozzies: An precise AI-laser-mozzie-zapper now exists, the Iron Dome of pest defence👇
🏉 TRL State of Origin & World Cup: July 17 to July 20 from 8 am to 2 pm; occasions will home video games throughout males’s, ladies’s, combined and males’s 30s at Alabaster Sports activities Complicated
🏃🏼♀️ Gold Coast 6-hr Journey Race: July 19 from 7 am to three pm: a 2-person crew race to navigate a 15 to 30km course utilizing a map and compass, hitting checkpoints and ending inside 6 hours
👯 Encourage Debut: July 20 from 4 pm onwards; aggressive cheerleading with Encourage Athletics’ opener at Carrara Indoor Sports activities Stadium
🎡 Kidchella: July 19 to July 20 from 10 am to 4 pm; reside DJ units and silent discos, experience the Ferris wheel, add some sparkle on the glam bar and extra on the Surfers Paradise Signal, 2 Esplanade
🎭 Mamma Mia! Musical Theatre: July 17 from 7:30 pm onwards; a fundraiser in assist of Journey 2 Be taught on the Highlight Theatre
