Local council

Tate: ‘I’ll win barring a shocker’

Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate is so confident about retaining his job he says it will take a Mitchell Pearce-like shocker to stop him.

Returned councillors back at work

ANDREW POTTS Voters in the city’s north won’t get a say in choosing their councillors for the next four years but incumbents Donna Gates and William Owen-Jones say they’re already back at work.

Coast council campaign party games

ANDREW POTTS PARTY politics has entered the Gold Coast City Council election, with both LNP and Labor figures linked to “independent” candidate campaigns.

Mayoral candidates stripped bare

Paul Weston FOR the three mayoral candidates who turned up, this was the one community meeting where they were going to be stripped bare and required to reveal themselves.

Cr Crichlow wants smokers boxed in

JACK HARBOUR SOUTHPORT councillor Dawn Crichlow is overjoyed at the state government’s anti-smoking laws which she believes will aid her proposal to introduce designated boxes for smokers on street corners.

Robina and Varsity to rival London

Alexandria Utting ROBINA and Varsity Lakes could soon rival some of the biggest cities in the world with a London-style vision for its future.

Parking war to be a council issue

A PARKING war is brewing in Burleigh Heads, with one council candidate calling for a major redevelopment of the area.

Evandale building demolition begins

ANDREW POTTS DEMOLITION has begun on the near 40-year-old Evandale administration building in the first step towards the cultural precinct becoming a reality.

Missing funds for traffic lights

Paul Weston THE $180,000 needed to help solve the city’s traffic gridlock is no closer to hitting Gold Caost roads, with the State Government and council still at war about the payment.

Sign-slasher teens anger rival pollies

Paul Weston DESPERATE candidates are hiding CCTV cameras and offering rewards as teenage gangs armed with knives slash their election signs to shreds.

Casino mystery for Surfers tower

KATHLEEN SKENE & ANDREW POTTS <br /> UNEXPLAINED delays, six “missing” floors and no public consultation haunt the closed door approval of a 64-storey Surfers Paradise tower that councillors suspect could eventually house the city’s second casino.

Signs up as preference deal planned

ANDREW POTTS CANDIDATES in the northern Gold Coast seat of Division 3, are blanketing the area with signs as incumbent Cameron Caldwell fights for his political life.

Seniors angered by poll booth cuts

DENIS DOHERTY GOLD Coast seniors groups have hammered the decision to cull the number of polling booths ahead of next month’s council election.

Candidate slams Uber ‘blackmail’

ANDREW POTTS RIDE-sharing service Uber has been accused of attempting to blackmail Gold Coast City Council candidates into supporting the controversial company.

Surfers heavyweights call truce

Paul Weston FORMER Mayor Gary Baildon and ex-city councillor Susie Douglas have stitched up a secret preference deal which means one of them should win the hotly contested Surfers Paradise division.

Tate’s plan to get 30k cars off roads

ANDREW POTTS MORE than 30,000 cars must been taken off the Gold Coast’s roads during the 2018 Commonwealth Games to keep the city’s roads unclogged according to Mayor Tom Tate.

Council hopefuls hit the ballot

ANDREW POTTS IT’S rare in politics for a candidate to celebrating coming last but former mayor Gary Baildon could not have been more excited.

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