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This site features food of all kinds, not just rawfish. Dozens of recipes with step by step photos are archived in the 'recipes' category. Restaurant reviews, food shows, awards ceremonies, celebrity chefs and wineries are also featured. Gold Coast surfing and surf life saving competions are included, along with interesting local news, sports, entertainment and special events.
Dragon Boat racing capsize surf rescue
Surf rescue crews helped more than 40 crew members of two dragon boats which capsized in the Ballina Seaway in northern NSW, yesterday. The accident occurred just after 5am, when rough conditions in the Ballina Seaway overturned the two boats. There were fears for five people who were believed to have been swept away by the tide. However, Ballina police said they have since been found, and all crew members were safe and well.

Dragon boat racing has recently been identified as the fastest growing water sport in Australia. Dragon boats contain a crew of up to 22 paddlers, a sweep and sometimes, a drummer.

Many breast cancer survivors take up dragon boat paddling for fun, fitness and camaraderie. It is not all fun and games though; the exercise stimulates lymphatic circulation in women who have had the lymph nodes surgically removed.

Curious onlookers and new paddlers are always welcome at various clubs, on the Gold Coast, or Australia wide and can be contacted through the Dragons Abreast Australia website.
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Saks Restaurant Bar Marina Mirage Broadwater
Saks Lamb Rack With Smoky Eggplant
Saks Restaurant and Bar, located at Marina Mirage, was one of several top Gold Coast restaurants to exhibit flair at the Gold Coast Good Food & Wine Show this weekend. Tasty samples were being served, and lovers of fine food were lining up to sample Saks roasted lamb rack with smoky eggplant puree. Saks hosts Angelo, Bianca and Frank Parente were even kind enough to share their recipe with the public.

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Celebrity chef Daran Glasgow cooking demonstration
Celebrity Chef Daran Glasgow Cooking Demonstration
The second annual Gold Coast Good Food And Wine Show is being held at the convention centre at Broadbeach this weekend. With almost a hundred exhibitors offering product samples, discounts, wine tasting, cooking demonstrations, appliances, utensils, cook books and coffee making competitions, visitors are sure to find something to suit their tastes.
Saks Restaurant Marin Mirage Food Show
Saks Hosts Angelo, Bianca and Frank Parente

Celebrity chefs Andre Tabet, Alison Taafe, Peter Howard and Daran Glasgow are displaying their talent in the Coles Celebrity Kitchen, while some of the Gold Coasts top restaurants are presenting a popular selection from their menus. Gold Coast restaurants were absent from last years show, but Saks at Marina Mirage, Chill on Tedder, the Gold Coast Arts Centre, The Tandoori Place and numerous others deserve commendation for rectifying that


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New Australian Flag Australian Republic Monarchy
Australian Greens Leader Senator Bob Brown has backed calls for a modernisation of the Australian flag today.

"I congratulate Ray Martin for raising this issue on Australia Day eve, and agree wholeheartedly that it is high time we replaced the union jack with a dinkum Australian symbol on our flag," said Senator Brown


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West Atlas Oil rig spill on fire
West Atlas Oil Rig Destroyed By Fire
Australian Greens Senator Rachel Siewert has made a speech in Parliament deploring the Governments handling of the West Atlas oil spill disaster, after flying over PTTEP Australasia’s Montara oil field on her own fact finding mission.

The West Atlas oil driling rig caught fire and spewed an unknown quantity of oil into the Timor sea about 250 kms off the coast of Western Australia in late August. It was finally plugged by the West Triton rig on November the 3rd


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Pink Ladies breast cancer Currumbin Dragon boat club
The Pink Ladies of Currumbin Dragon Boat club yesterday celebrated the addition of two new boats, with a blessing of the boats ceremony at Currumbin Creek.

Breast cancer survivors one and all, the Pink Ladies and their supporters gathered with members of the indigenous Bundjalung tribe, the Deputy Mayor, and a deputation of Buddhist monks to formally launch the vessels


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The Brisbane Good Food And Wine Show

November 6th 2009 11:59
Celebrity Chef Matt Moran Autographs Cookbook
Celebrity Chef Matt Moran Autographs His Cookbook
The annual Brisbane Good Food And Wine Show began today at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, and will continue until Sunday.

Celebrity chefs, Gary Mehigan, George Calombaris, Matt Moran, Tobie Puttock as well as Ben O'Donoghue and Alastair McLeod will be demonstrating their talent. After their shows they will be signing their latest books, which are available at the Angus and Robertson stand


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RAAF F1-11 Jet dump and burn
An F1-11 Dumps And Burns Jet Fuel
The Gold Coast Super GP is a fumefest foisted on the local residents without regard for their wellbeing, by a government more intent on its financial health.

The Roulettes were doing fly-bys trailing smoke, helicopters were landing and taking off in the middle of the track precinct, and the F1-11s were doing ‘dump and burns,’ which means dumping fuel and burning it


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V8 Supercars Surfers paradise street track
The circus that is the Gold Coast Super GP has come and gone leaving the city to clean up the mess and restore normal traffic flow.

After the initial naming rights sponsor, Nitro Energy Drinks went insolvent, Nikkon stepped in, although much of the official merchandise still bore the Nitro moniker


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remote devices detonates explosion in van
A remote door locking device has acted as a detonator, destroying a plumbers van in a massive explosion in suburban Melbourne today.

An oxy-acetylene gas bottle, which was stored in a cabinet in the new VW transporter van was apparently leaking throughout the night


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Beijing Olympics Silver Medalist Sally McLellan
The annual Australian University games are being held on the Gold Coast from Sunday 27th September until today, and Olympic silver medallist Sally McLellan gave up her time to help out future elite athletes at the Games.

Local universities continued to do well yesterday, dominating the netball, volleyball and football. Griffith University was sitting at the top of its pool in division 2 AFL, men's division 1 basketball, men division 1 beach volleyball, women's division 2 volleyball, mixed division 2 netball, women's tennis, men's division 1 touch football and women's division 1 touch football


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Emma Moffat Wins World Triathlon Gold Coast
Image by Bam Media
Australia's Emma Moffatt overcame injury worries to win the 2009 Dextro Energy Triathlon - ITU World Championship, comprising a 1.5km swim, 40km cycle and 10km run. Moffat beat her main rival, Lisa Norden from Sweden, in a sprint finish to cross the line in a time of 1:59:14 as she won the Series Grand Final on Australia's Gold Coast.

Moffatt entered the final event of the year just 120 points ahead of Norden knowing that a top two finish would ensure her the world title, however had been suffering with a foot injury in the lead up to the race. Having made the front cycle pack of seven, along with the Swede, the championship leaders fought out a tough 10km run as they pushed each other to the line before Moffatt came out on top. Norden's second place sealed Sweden's first senior elite triathlon world championship medal. Despite finishing down in eighth, New Zealand's Andrea Hewitt ensured that she did enough to secure world championship bronze


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Sam the Koala rescued from Victorian Bushfire
Sam the Koala, made world famous by this photo with CFA firefighter David Tree during the devastating Victorian bushfires in February, has died. Sam survived the deadliest bushfires in Australia’s history with serious burns to her feet, ears and nose. Mr Tree said that although it appears that Sam is holding his hand, he had poured some water into his cupped hand and she is actually cooling her burns.

Sam was successfully rehabilitated at the Southern Ash Wildlife Shelter in Rawson but was subsequently found to have Chlamydia. Chlamydia is a bacterium that infects a wide range of animals, including birds, sheep, cattle, horses, pigs, cats, mice and even humans


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Underage Arsonists To Blame

July 25th 2009 02:55
Queensland Fire And Rescue Service Emergency
Queensland Fire & Rescue were called to quell a fire in the scrub beside the M1 in Palm Beach this afternoon. The fire created a lot of smoke which drifted across the highway, reducing visibility and causing minor traffic disruptions. One of the firefighters said the fire appeared to be deliberately lit, probably by kids.
Firefighters blame underage arsonists

Fire crews also responded to a fire in a unit on the ninth floor of an apartment block on The Esplanade at Surfers Paradise about 12.30 this morning. Firefighters located a small fire in the kitchen of the unoccupied unit and were able to quickly extinguish it. The cause of the fire will be investigated


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Gordon Ramsay Hits Sanctuary Cove

June 14th 2009 02:16
celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay in Australia
Image courtesy of Wikipedia
Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has landed on the Gold Coast amid a storm of controversy. The potty mouthed Brit arrived in Australia to perform at the Sydney and Melbourne Good Food Shows and will now be demonstrating his culinary flair at a series of exclusive dinners at the Hyatt Regency, Sanctuary Cove.

Mr Ramsay made headlines in Australia and the old Blighty during a recent A Current Affair interview with Tracy Grimshaw. During the interview Mr Ramsay made numerous derogatory remarks, including referring to a mole on Ms Grimshaws’ lip as ‘your little sister


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Rio Tinto BHP shares iron ore Chinalco
Mining giant Rio Tinto has rejected a 24billion dollar buy in of 19 per cent by China’s Chinalco in favour of a deal with BHP. Instead Rio Tinto announced it will raise 15 billion from its shareholders for a joint venture with BHP on its iron ore operations in Western Australia’s Pilbara region. The 5 billion dollar merger between two of the biggest iron ore producers will give them strong leverage over the price of iron ore, once markets normalize.

The decision, which is bound to thwart Chinese steel producers, excuses Prime Minister Rudd of making a sensitive decision an whether to allow the Chinalco deal, preventing further loss of face and a voter backlash in Australia


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Gluten Free food show coeliac nutrition
The Gluten Free Food Show will be held at the Brisbane Convention Centre this weekend, the 16th and 17th of May. Great news for sufferers of Coeliac Disease, Gluten Intolerance, fructose malabsorbption, bloating, wind or irritable bowel after eating.

There will be cooking demonstrations by celebrity chefs, information sessions by expert dietitians and a huge range of gluten free products on sale. Accredited practising Dietitian & Cook Book Author, Dr Sue Shepherd, initially ran the show in Melbourne to enable companies to showcase their products for people with special dietary requirements


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Chilean Volcano volcanic eruption emergency evacuation
Image by Pat Taschler
After recent volcanic rumblings in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, a volcano in the Chilean chain has erupted in a spectacular display of natures force. Chile’s Llaima volcano, one of the most active in the South America chain, began spewing a fresh pyroclastic eruption three days ago. The 3,127-metre Llaima volcano erupted on January 1, 2008, and has spewed superheated gas, ash and rock sporadically ever since.
Chile's chain of some 2,000 volcanoes is the world's second-largest after Indonesia. Around 50 to 60 are recorded to have erupted, while 500 are deemed potentially active.
Active volcanoes vulcanism pyroclastic storm

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Vrgin Slut Virgin Stewardesses Airline Aircraft
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is receiving a barrage of criticism for reducing a stewardess to tears by complaining about meal options on an RAAF flight back in January. Big deal! Virgin Stewardesses have rude customers to deal with on every flight. Everyone in a service role experiences rudeness, but are expected to take it on the chin.
The 23 year old flight attendant burst into tears and reported the incident to senior crew on the Royal Australian Air Force Boeing 737 flight from Papua New Guinea. Group Captain Peter Wood said cabin crew had not even been aware of the special meal request by Mr Rudd, who has been on a non-red meat diet to lose weight.

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Ipswich disaster giant hole collingwood park
Cyclone Sharon hit Ipswich in the early hours of this morning. Already reeling from land subsidence in Collingwood Park and a giant hole in the CBD, the Cyclone devastated the area causing approximately 30 dollars worth of damage.

Hundreds of residents were confused and bewildered and were still trying to come to terms with their shock. Victims were wandering around aimlessly, muttering 'Faaackinell


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Victorian Bushfire Inferno Pictures Kingslake Disaster
How could anything survive this?
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Victorian Premier John Brumby have announced that a National Day of Mourning will be held in Melbourne, at Rod Laver Arena at 11.00am on Sunday 22 Feb, to honour the victims of Victoria’s devastating bushfires and to recognise the courage and tireless efforts of emergency service workers. Mr Rudd said the memorial service would provide Australians with an opportunity to grieve as the nation came to terms with its worst natural disaster.
Victorian bushfire pictures aircraft in smoke plume
Flying into Melbourne and 737 Departing

“The 7th of February will become etched in our national memory as a day of disaster, of death and of mourning. This nation has been scarred by natural disasters, disasters that remind us of our tenuous hold on this vast and forbidding land: ‘Her beauty and her terror’, as our nation’s poem reminds us, of this ‘wide brown land’. Except that the land is now black, the earth scorched, and the people in mourning,” Mr Rudd said


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Christmas Lights Vs Carbon Tax

December 15th 2008 12:19
Gold Coast City Council ‘Christmas Light Up’ competition
The Federal Government today released details of its 1.4 billion dollar energy efficiency package in Canberra while conversely, the winners of the Gold Coast City Council ‘Christmas Light Up’ competition were recently announced at a festive ceremony at Robina Community Centre.

The Grand Champions, Bob and Maureen Bottomley of Ashmore, have entered the competition every year since 1991. With 16,000 lights in their display, they created a twinkling wonderland that delights young and old alike. But can we, as a society, afford it


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Desalinated Water From Tugun Desalination Plant

Locals were lining up to have their first taste of desalinated seawater from the brand new Tugun Desalination Plant on the Gold Coast at yesterday’s Open Day. It may be their only chance as the 125 million litres of desalinated water the plant will produce every day will be pumped away to top up Brisbane’s depleted dams. The taste? It's a little flat, like distilled water in my opinion.
Queensland Premier Bligh Gold Coast Deslaination

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Ford Holden V8 Supercars Whincup Winterbottom
Ford Vs Holden (Credit-Edge Photographics)
In what may well be the last Gold Coast Indy, Ryan Briscoe became the first Australian driver to win in the Event’s 18 year history. Originally from Sydney, Briscoe had the Brisbane-born Kiwi Scott Dixon in hot pursuit for the entire 60 lap race as he led the way from lap 17, before taking the chequered flag.
Anna Bligh Will Power Gold Coast Indy
Captain Bligh With Will Power (Credit-IndyCar Series Media)
Premier Anna Bligh says the QLD government is still negotiating, but with the Gold Coast left out of the 2009 IndyCar calendar, the future of the event is uncertain in spite of record attendance. Almost 300,000 people enjoyed the four days of the Nikon Indy 300, with a crowd of 94,465 fans coming through the gates yesterday to see the total figure to 297,288.
Ryan Briscoe wins Gold Coast Indy
Briscoe Takes The Chequered Flag (Credit-Edge Photographics)
Briscoe said it was a big honor to win in his home country. “Track position was everything at the race,” he said. “Dixon is very quick and consistent, and he was in my mirrors all day long, but I just had to focus on not making a mistake and bringing it all home


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Indy Cars Surfers Paradise Street Circuit
Surfers Paradise Street Circuit (Credit Bam Media)
Possibly the strongest open-wheel field ever assembled for the streets of Surfers Paradise has been confirmed for this week’s Nikon Indy 300, October 23-26. A total of 24 drivers - including three former Gold Coast winners, 10 IndyCar ’08 Series winners, five Indy 500 champions and the famous racing families of Rahal, Andretti and Foyt – will hit the track next weekend.
All IndyCars will be using Dallara chassis, Honda engines and Firestone tyres. The following is the 2008 entry list by car number, driver and team:
Helio Castrovenes Indy Car Racing Champion
Helio Castrovenes (Credit IndyCar Series Media)

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World champion Triathlete Emma Snowsill Indy
Emma Snowsill Does A Lap At Indy (Credit Bam Media)
The Gold Coast’s Olympic Gold Medal winning triathlete Emma Snowsill has accepted the role of Grand Marshall for the 2008 Nikon Indy 300, October 23-26 - celebrating her new position this afternoon by checking out Pit Lane aboard her own speed machine.

The 27 year old triple world champion, who calls the Gold Coast home, is currently preparing for the Noosa Triathlon on November 2 but took some time out from her busy training schedule to check out the continuing track construction


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Best Restaurant Queensland Awards for Excellence
It’s official! The best restaurants in Queensland were announced last week at the 2008 Restaurant and Catering Queensland State Awards for Excellence Dinner. The black tie event, at $150 a head, was held at Suncorp Stadium on September 15th.
Gold coast finalists included Chill on Tedder for Best Informal Dining Restaurant, the Gold Coast Arts Centre for Best Venue Caterer and Songbirds in the Forest for Best Tourism Restaurant.
Carmodys, at the Southport Sharks, was a finalist for Best Pub/Tavern/Club Restaurant as was Alleys Restaurant at the Currumbin RSL, which was recently featured on Rawfish, for Professional Development - Under 100 staff


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Currumbin Creek Dragon Boat Racing Regatta
Currumbin Dragon Boat Club held the Currumbin Springfest Regatta on Saturday at their home patch on Currumbin Creek as part of the annual round of competition. Dragon boat clubs from as far afield as Brisbane River, Mount Warning, Grafton and the Sunshine Coast converged to compete over a short 200 metre course.
Grand Final Dragon Boat photo finish

Currumbin Dragons won the final of the Masters mixed, ahead of Redcliffe by .03 of a second. The Gold Coast Dragons, based at Lake Orr, took out the coveted Premier mixed award, and the Brisbane River Dragons finished in second place


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Stephanie Rice three Olympic Gold Medals
Triple Olympic Gold Medalist Stephanie Rice
Australia’s Olympic heroes were honoured yesterday with a parade through Brisbane’s CBD followed by a meet and greet with thousands of adoring fans. Stephanie Rice and her gold medal winning relay team, triathlete Emma Snowsill and diminutive diver Melissa Wu all won wide acclaim from young an old alike.
Australian Olympic Silver Medalist Sally McClellan

Everyone saw Gold Coaster Sally McClellan as she posed for photos and signed countless autographs. Sally won many Australians hearts with her post race interview after winning a silver medal in the women’s hurdles. Sally, you had me at “Oh, shit…”
Sally McClellan Gets Olympic silver medal

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IndyCar Chamionship photo finish Chicagoland Speedway
Castrovenes, Dixon & Briscoe cross the finish line (Credt IndyCar Series Media)
Scott Dixon has won the 2008 IndyCar Series Championship, despite a heroic effort by Helio Castroneves which saw him win a photo finish in Sunday’s final points-paying race of the season - the Indy 300 at Chicagoland Speedway, Illnois, US.
The win comes just six weeks before the IndyCar Series heads 'Down Under' for Australia's own Nikon Indy 300, from October the 23rd to the 26th.
Scott Dixon Wins IndyCar Series Championship
Scott Dixon Claims The Trophy (Credit IndyCar Series Media)

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A La Carte On The Beach

August 24th 2008 06:29
Vietnamese Pork and Prawn roll
Vietnamese Pork & Prawn Roll
Thousands of tourists and locals alike descended on the annual A La Carte On The Beach food and wine festival, which was celebrated in perfect weather at Coolangatta beach on the Gold Coast today.
Showcasing a vast array of cuisine from around the world with dishes priced from $3 to $8, A La Carte on the Beach also featured, live music, cooking demonstrations, wine tasting and family entertainment.
Hot young girls pink cheeks VB

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Gold Coast Indy Construction Begins

August 21st 2008 09:30
Miss Indy hot blonde short skirt
The first step in construction for the Gold Coast Indy street circuit was completed yesterday, sixty four days out from the October 23-26 event, with the positioning of the first pedestrian bridge near Tedder Avenue.
Nikon Indy 300 Event Director David Bennett was joined on the Gold Coast Highway by reigning Bartercard Miss Indy Kate Hockly in celebration of this milestone.
Gold Coast Indy Street Circuit construction
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A Free Schapelle Corby Christmas 2001
Schapelle Corby In Happier Times

These pictures show Schapelle Corby living on the Gold Coast in happier times. Taken at Christmas in 2001, it would be almost three more years before she made that fateful trip to Bali.
Free Schapelle Corby Smoking Joint Marijuana
Are You Gunna Pass That Around?

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Wintersun Girls Rock 'n' Roll Dancing
The Annual Wintersun Festival held at the border towns of Coolangatta and Tweed Heads has drawn thousands of nostalgic revelers to celebrate the best of the 50’s and 60’s.

Australia's leading Rock & Roll retro event celebrated with more than 100 bands and performers, dancing, movies, and competitions over eleven days


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mega-yacht luxury power boats
The 20th Sanctuary Cove International Boat Show brought multi-million dollar sales, breaking records and proving it is the number one Australian boat show. A snapshot of 15 exhibitors – only a fraction of the full exhibitor list - confirmed actual sales for them at the Show of close to $A150 million with more expected in the coming weeks.
The feeling of the major exhibitors was that the show was positive and for many beyond their expectations. Tim Sayer, Managing Director of R Marine, said that the Show had the best vibes of any in the world.
Paul Smithson the Gold Coast builder of Sunrunner said Sunrunner exhibited seven boats from their range and sold all but one, with multiple orders for some


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Riviera's Power Boat Of The Year

May 23rd 2008 13:49
Riviera Power Boat of the year
Riviera 48 Offshore Express
Queensland boat builders Riviera have won the award for ‘Power Boat of the Year’ for the second year running at the prestigious Australian Marine Awards, staged by the Australian Marine Industries Federation, last night at the Marriot Resort in Surfers Paradise.
The company, which has been building boats on the Gold Coast for the past 27 years, won the coveted prize for the Riviera 4400 Sport Yacht with an infusion moulded hull and Volvo Penta IPS propulsion.

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Sanctuary Cove International Boat Show
Australia’s biggest and best nautical showcase, the 20th annual Sanctuary Cove International Boat Show, will be held on the Gold Coast from Thursday, May 22 to Sunday May 25.
There will be almost 400 boats on the water alone, stretching more than 5 kilometres if placed stem to stern, plus hundreds more boats and marine products in four large pavilions and throughout the waterfront areas.
Riviera Luxury Boats Superyachts
Now recognized as a leading event in the Asia-Pacific region, the 2008 show has 448 exhibitors booked for on-water, pavilion and open-air displays. With close to 120 marine product world and Australian launches, the show has drawn keen interest from international and Australian buyers


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Pro Surfers Championship Decider

March 4th 2008 11:53
World Champion Kelly Slater
Eight-time ASP World Champion Kelly Slater is once again the world’s number one surfer after beating reigning ASP World Champion Mick Fanning at his home break of Snapper Rocks on Queensland’s Gold Coast today.
Slater beat Fanning in the final to claim his second Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast title.
Kelly Slater Quiksilver Pro surfing
Prior to his win today, Florida based Slater had not defeated Fanning since 2003. Both surfers have now won the Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast twice – Fanning in 2005 and 2007 and Slater in 2006 and 2008


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Quicksilver Pro Surfers

February 25th 2008 11:48
Duranbah GoldCoast Surfing Quicksilver Pro ASP
The Roxy Quicksilver Pro began on the Gold Coast on Saturday the 23rd Feb in sweltering conditions. The opening day of 2008 ASP World Tour competition saw the ASP Top 45 take on Round 1 of the Quiksilver Pro in punchy waves at Duranbah Beach in front of a large crowd.
Mick Fanning Joel Parkinson Quicksilver Pro surfing tour
Highlights included the domination of Gold Coast stalwarts Mick Fanning (AUS), Joel Parkinson (AUS), Dean Morrison (AUS), Bede Durbidge (AUS) and Luke Munro (AUS). Munro, in particular, surfed brilliantly, scoring the highest wave (9.50 out of 10.00) and heat total (17.50 out of 20.00) of the round, to progress through to Round 3.
Kelly Slater ASP World Tour Duranbah Gold Coast
Reigning ASP and Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast champion Mick Fanning,as well as Parkinson and Morrison, are all past winners of the event


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XXXX Gold Beach Cricket

January 20th 2008 20:32
sea of gold & Bevan
The fourth and final round of the XXXX Gold Tri-Nations Beach Cricket was held at Coolangatta Beach on the weekend (19th & 20th Jan), in front of a capacity crowd of 3000 spectators.

Australia met New Zealand in the opening match, with New Zealand electing to bat first


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FIREWORKS WASHED OUT

January 1st 2008 11:09
NO SWIMMING
While the southern states sweltered in record heat yesterday the New Years Eve fireworks planned for the Gold Coast was cancelled due to high winds emanating from a tropical depression northeast of Fraser Island.

Beaches were closed along the Gold Coast for the first day of the new year and Surf Lifesavers said conditions were extremely dangerous. Huge swells combined with high tides to cause erosion to some southern beaches and some flights were delayed creating holiday havoc


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TODAY TONIGHT VS SEAFOOD IMPORTERS

December 26th 2007 06:19
cottage industry
BASA-THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY. The Seafood Importers Association of Australia has rejected claims made on Channel 7’s Today Tonight program regarding growing conditions for the fish ‘Basa’, as a distortion of the truth.

Chairman of the SIAA, Mr Harry Peters AM, said footage of fish growing in disgusting conditions in urban tributaries, were unrelated to the modern fish farms and processing factories exporting to Australia


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The Week Long Party Is Over

October 22nd 2007 14:50
Indy party
People from all over the country, and all over the world, congregated on the Gold Coast for the week long party that is the Lexmark Indy 300 last week.

Queensland’s glitter strip hosted 314,136 thrillseekers, attracted by the lure of sun and sand, nightlife, wildlife and wild nights


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Power on at Indy!

October 19th 2007 08:33
indy track
The 17th Lexmark Indy 300 carnival has started and enthusiasts will party on for a whole week in Queensland’s spectacular Gold Coast.

The entertainment will spill out of the racetrack onto the streets with live stage shows featuring fire shows, dancers and percussionists to keep the energy pumping till late


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It's NOT an oil rig

October 15th 2007 05:59
jack up barge
It looks like an oil drilling rig, but it isn’t. It’s a ‘Jack Up’ Barge which moves into position and then lowers its legs, jacking itself up to 10m above sea level, ensuring it is clear of the high-water mark.

The Self Elevating Platform Barge is 50m long and 25m wide, and is equipped with a 600 tonne crane with a sixty metre boom. Arriving on the Gold Coast in July the barge was imported from South Korea


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Hailstorms Lash SE Queensland

October 12th 2007 09:45
South East Queensland and the NSW North Coast have been lashed by short but intense thunderstorms, accompanied by hail, for four evenings in a row.

The Sunshine Coast, Brisbane and the Gold Coast have all been affected. Hardest hit was Lismore, on the far north coast of NSW. The city was pelted with huge hailstones, causing widespread damage and a few minor injuries. A State of Emergency has been declared to help the City of Lismore recover


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The American Super-Wealthy Elite

July 24th 2007 02:49
Super Rich girl holding money in a red dress
There's a Canadian song from the 90s which goes 'If I had a million dollars...'

Back in the 90s, a cool mil might have gotten you started. Now being a millionaire is so middle-of-the-road that low income families laugh at your predicament


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Usually, I'd turn on my sarcastic, satirical voice and make mocku-fun out of this story.

I'd like to state that we're on the verge of Fear and Insecurity taking over North America, plummeting America into its own devastating Dark Ages. All that's left is Loathing


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Johann Hari, writing for the Indepedant UK, published an astonishing article on AlterNet. She took a cruise sponsored by the National Review for conservatives and the conversatives that are even more conservative than conservatives.

Read the article!
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Pot growers are now terrorists

July 17th 2007 02:48
Black Hawk helicopter
Yes!

We can all breathe safely now, people. We've finally created a totally safe country now. The United States of America has finally come up with a way to deal with those horrible marijuana growers in California. They are now terrorists
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Michael Moore vs. CNN

July 16th 2007 02:58
There's been a lot of stink on the internet - and on normal news! - about the feud between Michael Moore, liberal documentarian, and the undead hordes of CNN.

Michael Moore made a movie called SICKO, which tries to rip off the facade on the American health care system. It stirred up quite a bit of controversy, especially among rich Americans that have good-paying jobs and private health care, as they long to believe that the federal health care system takes care of the workers in their arms factories


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Dick Cheney on the DC Madam list!

July 12th 2007 03:02
No one likes Mr. Cheney anymore. And no one has to... after all, big Dick just made millions on the Iraq war, with all the interests he has in military companies and oil contracts. Naw, he's just chuckling softly to himself as he tries to find someone else to shoot in the face.

He's pretty old, but even old guys can be perverts


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Live Earth produces a lotta greenhouse gases.

It's a concert for the Earth! The Earth is alive! Heyyyyyyaaaaaah! A-booga-booga-booga


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Bottled Water is Bad

July 3rd 2007 02:58
This excellent article in Fast Company illustrates how bad bottled water is for the environment and for our collective social responsibility.

In the past 10 years, bottled water has become a consumer phenomenon, with over $15 billion in sales last year - just in the United States


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chimpanzee
This week's edition of Nature includes a review of Michael Behe's latest book.

Michael Behe? He's the King Leonidas of the Intelligent Design (ID) wargroup, pushing to get ID back in the schools in America


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The Daily Show on Dick Cheney

June 27th 2007 00:22
There's quite a bit of hubbub about Dick Cheney recently, and I'm loathe to read CNN or Fox News and find out what it's all about.

I've said it before, and I'll probably keep saying it, but I find The Daily Show to be a terrific way to get quickly updated on what's happening


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The most massive star

June 7th 2007 23:47
Hubble photo image
From Bad Astronomy, astronomers have found the most massive star known to man - over 114 times the size of the sun.

114? That's it? That's the biggest that the universe can offer? Hell, if I was a clump of nebular matter, I could attract WAY more than a paltry 226 billion billion billion tonnes. Shee... once you do the first billion tons, it's all downhill after that


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They're not just fizzy water... no, soft drinks need preservatives in order to keep the freshness in. Freshness of what? Of that fresh cola taste! Mmmm-mmmm....

The issue is with sodium benzoate, otherwise known as E211... researchers have found that E211 can cause damage to the mitochondria in cells, perhaps linked to a host of diseases


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Residents of Hong Kong are enraged over a dirty, disgusting book trying to get entry onto Cantonese bookshelves. It's filled with rage and sex and fiery infernos. It's got hedonism and war. Murder and betrayal. And it goes by the name of 'The Bible'

838 complaints filed against the Bible!
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I'm a big lover of Open Source Software, and who isn't? The idea is to have quality software that responds to the community - at no cost.

Take cost out of the equation and technology becomes disasterously affordable. Who knows what kind of impact the open source revolution will have on developing countries


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Glycemic Index Database

May 10th 2007 17:35
Maintained by our own Australian-based University of Sydney, this database is the #1 tool for determining the glycemic index (GI) of foods around the world. Also included in the numbers are the results for glycemic load (GL), which are a better measure for how much effect one serving of a particular food will have on your blood sugar.

It's times like these that I'm glad that food scientists are getting to the bottom of things. When I played sports, it was all about the 'big carb' meal before game day. We'd all go out for massive servings of pasta, with the belief that it'd carry us for the next day


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Tim Ferriss is a successful author/lifestyle designer whose rabid enthusiasm for life and living well is careening towards lunacy.

He's got a lot of interesting posts on his blog, but the one that is propagating through the internet is his incredible muscle gain program. He gained 34 pounds of muscle in 4 weeks, working out only twice a week. Damn


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Pro-alien abduction groups are excited about recent news from European astronomers, who claim to have found an 'Earthlike planet' only 20 light years away from Earth.

Only 20 light years? That's essentially a cosmic bus ride away


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School Shooting at Virginia Tech

April 16th 2007 22:53
The news wires are alive this morning, screaming about the school shootings at Virginia Tech, where a gunman killed 33 people before shooting himself in the face.

In fact, there were two separate incidents of gunfire, and the school is coming under pressure because they didn't cancel classes that day


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Jeb Bush
This sounds like a bad caricature of an offensive cartoon.... apparently, the University of Florida voted to NOT grant an honorary degree on Jeb Bush, younger brother of George, and former governor of Florida.

The university decided not to honour Bush since his actions during his iron-fisted reign as Governor were considered detrimental to education in the State


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Blogger Code of Conduct

April 10th 2007 02:32
Code of Conduct People walking
There's an angry wind in the blagosphere, with trolls and anonymous perverts getting up in arms about a draft of a Blogger's Code of Conduct.

A collaboration between Tim O'Reilly, the guy that made up 'Web 2.0' and Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, the Blogger Code of Conduct is said to replace freedom with politeness, according to BoingBoing.
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Where Evolution is taught in American Schools United States

Those of us that live in Australia often look at the United States with a kind of amused smirk when it comes to the Evolution debate - I know I do.

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What makes a decent field trip?

September 17th 2006 01:06
The joy of a science degree is the countless number of field trips one can go on. In my 2 years of Uni, I have been everywhere from Mud flats to tropical islands, with various subjects, doing various tasks.

No doubt, field trips give a student taste of real work- once we are out of uni and in the real world, what we can actually be doing with our life- collecting samples, travelling around, solving problems in the environment etc. But is this such a good thing


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The right way to wag a lecture

September 13th 2006 04:50
Whats this? A studious person like me would NEVER give you instructions on how to skip those must attend lectures. Whats more, surely not attending the lecture is enough?

Sure, for larger classes where the lecturer doesn't recognise your face, let alone your name, but for smaller more personal classes it becomes very obvious when you don't show up. So, incase you do have a lazy day and require time out from the dreary, mundane voice of the lecturer, here are a few pointers


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The Joy of statistics

September 5th 2006 06:24
My data did everything I wanted it to. perfect. JOY! YAY!

Unfortuntely my friends didn't. After her computer died on her the first time, she moved to my left and tried again, failing, and then redid it so it worked


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Due dates- a suggestion?

September 1st 2006 01:29
One major part of university life, apart from the socialness, is the actual workload. Even I, the ultimate slacker must get her butt into gear occasionally and produce a piece of work, indicating that I know what my degree is about.

An organised student will start their assignments the week they get them, and have it finished long before the due date. I envy these people, with their self-control, dedication and organization


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