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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 will consider the social and environmental costs of a cableway compared to the economic benefit.
Queenslanders need to be given as much notice as possible if the border to New South Wales is slammed shut, Shadow Health Minister Ros Bates has warned. The comment comes amid chaotic scenes at the Victoria-NSW border as Victorians rushing to get back across the New South Wales border to beat a snap government deadline were met with mammoth several-hour delays. The deadline, announced yesterday amid a rise in coronavirus cases in Melbourne - an outbreak spread from Sydney - caused lengthy traffic jams and confusion, turning highways into car parks. Â
NSW-Vic border tonight. Six hours to go about 20km. pic.twitter.com/AcqaG8IXmTâ Louise Milligan (@Milliganreports) December 31, 2020
Queenslanders need to be given as much notice as possible if the border to New South Wales is slammed shut, Shadow Health Minister Ros Bates has warned. The comment comes amid chaotic scenes at the Victoria-NSW border as Victorians rushing to get back across the New South Wales border to beat a snap government deadline were met with mammoth several-hour delays. The deadline, announced yesterday amid a rise in coronavirus cases in Melbourne - an outbreak spread from Sydney - caused lengthy traffic jams and confusion, turning highways into car parks. Â
NSW-Vic border tonight. Six hours to go about 20km. pic.twitter.com/AcqaG8IXmTâ Louise Milligan (@Milliganreports) December 31, 2020