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A VOLUNTEER with the Queensland Ambulance Service has lashed out after paramedics were called to the scene of a two-month-old car crash on Springbrook Mountain at the weekend. On Saturday morning police and paramedics rushed to the scene of a silver sedan on its roof on the side of Pine Creek Rd after a call from a concerned motorist who spotted the vehicle. The vehicle, which is on Springbrook National Park land, has been there since December 17 but has not been removed. There is also another black car that crashed in the same area on August 19 last year. Queensland Ambulance Service vol...

News by Paul Weston Premium Content Subscriber only A GOLD Coast cableway would travel from Mudgeeraba to Springbrook and could cover a route that does not require an expensive buy-up of private land, according to a report to council. But the city's next biggest mooted tourist attraction, above a heritage-listed rainforest, is guaranteed to be divisive, and will create debate about funding models with no new proponent on the horizon. The cableway — flying again as a Gold Coast tourist project. A prefeasibility report to council by a private consultant...

Gold Coast Indigenous groups have weighed in on the change to a single word in the national anthem, labelling it “cosmetic” and “tokenistic”.

But, some have called changing "young" to "one" an initial step. Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday announced the anthem's second line would change from "young and free" to "one and free". The change is to recognise Indigenous people have inhabited Australia for thousands of years. Yugambeh man John Graham said: "It makes a difference, it is more inclusive and that's one of those things … it's a start." But he also described the change as "a little bit cosmetic". Other important steps needed to be taken, he said. "The one word doesn't make a big difference but something along...