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They’re the scourge of the summer beach swim, but swimmers along Queensland’s coastline may soon be able to enter the water with a little less fear of a nasty bluebottle sting.
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The Gold Coast has recorded the highest number of beach-related drownings in Queensland over the past year, in a horror year that saw the highest number of people drown in Australia in 25 years.
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Former Wallaby and Queensland Reds rugby union player Mick Barry, who famously made his international debut during the controversial 1971 anti-apartheid protest-riddled Springbok tour to Australia, has drowned after being caught in a rip off Currumbin Beach at the Gold Coast.
Surf Life Saving Queensland has overturned its decision to return its championships to a deadly Gold Coast beach that claimed the lives of three national surf athletes, claiming the backflip was “out of respect” for the families.
Queensland’s state surf lifesaving championships will return to a deadly Gold Coast beach that claimed the lives of three national surf athletes and that was banned from hosting all championships until 2020.
Gold Coast theme parks Sea World, Movie World and Wet’n’Wild will re-open within weeks and in time for Queensland and NSW school holidays, while the iconic Coolangatta Gold has also been locked in as the coast awakens from its COVID-induced slumber.
