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News by Paul Weston & Brianna Morris-Grant 2nd Feb 2021 4:17 PM Premium Content Subscriber only A GOLD Coast City councillor says she is "disgusted" after a developer and planners put in danger an historic Norfolk Pine at Burleigh Heads. The Norfolk Pine is the second largest in the area from Goodwin Terrace in the south along The Esplanade to Third Avenue. In a since-deleted Facebook post, Southport councillor Brooke Patterson said the vote was unanimous but the order could only start from January 30. "The developers cut down...
And then there were none. It's hard to believe but just last year more than 16 million people - 4 million of them from overseas - visited pre-pandemic Sydney. It prompted a thought: surely that lot was onto something. It also prompted pangs of what I may have been missing during these long, torturous months of the pandemic after having done my damnedest to escape the city and explore the rest of the state. See Also It was high time to give Sydney's hotels that have been struggling to attract guests a break, in every sense of the word, (aside from those housing returning international travelle...
Lilly Pilly of Frenchville Road. Gardening Neil Fisher Premium Content Subscriber only Well it is only five sleeps to Christmas, and the centre of attention of most households is now the humble Christmas tree, or is it the presents beneath. This is quite common though with little ones around the world. While Australia has followed very closely the European traditions, many Australian plants will make a beautiful hardy Christmas tree. Over recent years many Australian native plants have become very popular replacements for the traditional pines and firs a...
A rain gauge in south-east Queensland has recorded more rainfall in the last four days than some of Australia's capitals often receive in a year. During the weather event likened to a category one cyclone, Upper Springbrook, in the Gold Coast hinterland, received 952 millimetres during the 96 hours to 9am on Tuesday. This figure includes 475 millimetres that fell during the 24 hours to 9am on Saturday, and over 200 millimetres for each of the following two 24 hour periods. RELATED: Water spills over a road at Sprinbrook, in the Gold Coast hinterland. (Nine) The four-day total was higher tha...