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Gold Coast

Surfers Paradise beachfront.

Queensland

Paradise re-found

It may be more famous for schoolies than style but as Andrea Black writes, Surfers is not just all surface.

Queensland

Wake up full of beans

Peppers Broadbeach and the Gold Coast skyline.

Angie Kelly Ditching the workwear for thongs and embracing holiday hair doesn't mean you have to go without good coffee.

Hotels

Strokes of genius

Jackson Hole hotel pool

Pool tragic Brian Johnston has dipped into some of the world's sexiest hotel pools. Don your swimmers, grab your designer sunnies and dive in.

Low tide for Gold Coast Easter trade

Surfers Paradise Beach damaged Gold Coast

Simon Holt More accustomed to talking up the property market, Gold Coast Lord Mayor Tom Tate has spent his Wednesday morning trying to convince travellers that the tourist haven's biggest attraction is still...

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Special features

Australia

Places in the heart: Catriona Rowntree

Pure gold ? Catriona Rowntree with her children.

As the youngest of four children, TV presenter Catriona Rowntree has fond memories of driving holidays to the Gold Coast — except for the car sickness, of course.

Photo galleries

Strangest Gold Coast hotel requests

Hotel request

Gold Coast Tourism has compiled a list of the top ten strangest guest requests made at the city's five-star hotels during 2012.

Photos

Palazzo Versace

The Gold Coast's Palazzo Versace has gone on the market with an asking price of $80 million.

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Travellers Tips

Australia

Hot and happening

Hayman Island.

The carefree days of summer are coming - Lee Atkinson compiles a wish-list of some of the country's best new adventures.

Flight test

Flight test: Jetstar A320 economy class

Jetstar generic

Flight Test The budget airline has its own dedicated lounge on the Gold Coast, but how does it stack up?

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Travel News

'Babies belong in the hold': Clarkson sparks controversy after airline tweet

Jeremy Clarkson with baby

JOLYON ATTWOOLL 12:24pm | TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson has prompted a strong reaction after suggesting that children should be stashed in the luggage hold during flights.

'Uncivilised' Chinese tourists harming country's reputation: official

10:51am | The dire manners and "uncivilised behaviour" of some Chinese tourists abroad are harming the country's image, said a top official who lamented their poor "quality and breeding".

Couple ends up on wrong continent after airline error

JOLYON ATTWOOLL 10:21am | US couple find themselves 11,000km away from their destination, on the wrong continent, after airline error.

Put another kipper in the pan

ROBERT UPE | Determined to lift visitor numbers to 40 million a year by 2020, the British are counting on us, writes Robert Upe.

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