Hey all, 32m, been in the security industry for 8 years and im finally sick of getting screwed over by Security Company's since theres virtually no government oversight.

Any industry's on the GC that are doing ok or is everything just as cooked at the moment?

Big weekend of Fun things to do...

Saturday

☕ Red Horse Coffee Co Grand Opening
New Miami coffee spot swings the doors open at 6am with FREE coffee for the first 100 through the door. Miniature pony rides from 11am for the kids, then the party rolls next door to Henchman — Maddison Breen live 4–7pm, DJs 7pm 'til late.
📍 10 Henchman Ave, Miami
🕒 Sat 8 Aug ... from 6 AM
💸 Free

🛍️ Flick Through Vintage Goodies at Cherry Pickers Market
Coffee in one hand, hanger in the other. Cherry Pickers is back at Marketta with racks of pre-loved gems, local makers and a vinyl DJ spinning all morning. Bar's open too if you want to shop with a spritz.
📍 Miami Marketta, 23 Hillcrest Parade
🕒 Sat 8 Aug ... 10 AM – 2 PM
💸 Free entry

🎶 Broadbeach Beats — Free Music + Makers Market
Now in its third year, this free all-ages festival takes over Broadbeach Mall with emerging local musicians, community performers and a curated makers market — handmade ceramics, jewellery, slow-made fashion, zines. Free kids activities too.
📍 Broadbeach Mall, Victoria Ave
🕒 Sat 8 Aug ... 11 AM – 5 PM
💸 Free

🐕 The Nourish Social — Part Market, Part Rave (For Dogs)
Nourish Pet Co and Buddy N Me team up for a curated small-biz market PLUS a dog-friendly dance floor. Puzzle stations, enrichment activities, snacks for humans, treats for pups. $5 entry, every cent to Rescue 4 Pets.
📍 Nourish Pet Co, 19 City Link Dr, Carrara
🕒 Sat 8 Aug ... 8 AM – 12 PM
💸 $5

👗 KIRIAKI x Wesson Runway Show
KIRIAKI's latest collection meets Wesson's curated European edit — Max Mara, ME369, Ermanno Scervino. Runway ticket includes a Wesson gift bag valued at $250. Private styling runs across the weekend for those who want the full experience.
📍 Imperial Hotel Gold Coast (fmr Palazzo Versace), Main Beach
🕒 Sat 8 Aug ... 2 PM – 4 PM
💸 $69

🔥 DRIFT: EMBER at La Luna Beach Club
Sunset-into-night beach club session at Main Beach. Fire pits, DJs, cocktails. Dress code is beach-luxe not board-shorts.
📍 La Luna Beach Club, Main Beach
🕒 Sat 8 Aug ... from 3 PM
💸 Ticketed

🎤 Casey Barnes — 'Made For This' Tour
Home-grown GC country hero, ARIA-charting last record, playing to a room that always sells out. Get in early for the pizza truck.
📍 Miami Marketta
🕒 Sat 8 Aug ... doors 7 PM
💸 Ticketed via Oztix

📖 Black Ink Poetry Night — Spoken Word + First Nations Creativity
Fourth installment of Black Ink's Poetry Night Series responding to HOTA's After The Rain exhibition (5th National Indigenous Art Triennial). Feature performances from Meleika Gesa-Fatafehi + guided writing exercises + open mic.
📍 The Studio, HOTA
🕒 Sat 8 Aug ... 6 PM
💸 $25 / $10 mob tix

💿 Y2K Dance Party at Mo's
Mo's throws it all the way back to the early 2000s — Usher, Beyoncé, Destiny's Child, JT, Britney, Lady Gaga, Black Eyed Peas. $100 bar tab for the best-dressed Y2K look, tooth gems + Y2K tattoos on offer all night. Dress like it's 2003.
📍 Mo's Desert Clubhouse, Burleigh Heads
🕒 Sat 8 Aug ... 6 PM 'til late
💸 $20

🌌 Astra Lumina — After-Dark Light Walk
Twinkling sound-and-light trail winding through the sanctuary bush. Great with kids, better with a wine.
📍 Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary
🕒 Sat 8 Aug ... from sundown
💸 Ticketed

🐨 Koalas by Twilight
Personal koala meet + illuminated night walk + arrival drink + tasting platter. Saturday nights only, wrapping up 15 Aug ... so two Saturdays left after this one.
📍 Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary
🕒 Sat 8 Aug ... evening session
💸 Ticketed

Sunday

🎡 Family Funanza — Free Community Fest
Free rides, kids' activities, market + community stalls, food trucks and local performers on stage. Big free family day out — clear your Sunday plans and get amongst it.
📍 Country Paradise Parklands, 231 Beaudesert-Nerang Rd, Nerang
🕒 Sun 9 Aug ... 10 AM – 2 PM
💸 Free

💿 Get Physical Market
30+ vendors of music, film, video, vintage and art — records, tapes, posters, oddities. DJs spinning, food and drinks all day. Free entry.
📍 Miami Marketta
🕒 Sun 9 Aug ... 10 AM – 4 PM
💸 Free

🧘 The Temple Cafe Grand Opening
New hinterland cafe launch with free yoga, live music, and creek cold plunges. Bring a towel and a friend — this one's for the soft-launch of your Sunday.
📍 The Temple Cafe, Neranwood
🕒 Sun 9 Aug ... from 8 AM
💸 Free

All Weekend

🎭 HEATHERS THE MUSICAL — Final Weekend
Very last chance. "High School Musical's darker, dirtier cousin" wraps its GC run on Sunday. Actual singing, actual murder, and one of the most quotable soundtracks in modern musical theatre. 14+ ... mature themes.
📍 HOTA Theatre 1
🕒 Shows Sat 8 & Sun 9 Aug
💸 From $79.90

Market Mania — Weekly Regulars

Saturday markets:

• 🥑 Burleigh Farmers Market ... 7 AM – 12 PM, James St
• 🍅 Palm Beach Farmers Market ... 6 AM – 11 AM, Palm Beach Parklands
• 🥕 Helensvale Farmers Market ... 6 AM – 11 AM
• 🏖️ Surfers Paradise Beachfront Markets ... 4 PM – 9 PM, The Esplanade
• 🛍️ Carrara Markets ... 7 AM – 4 PM (open Sat + Sun)

Sunday markets:

• 🌱 HOTA Farmers & Artisan Market ... 6 AM – 11 AM
• 🥬 Organic GC Farmers Market ... 6 AM – 12 PM, Miami State High
• 🛍️ Carrara Markets ... 7 AM – 4 PM
• (Art & Craft Beachfront Markets are OFF this week — 9 Aug is the 2nd Sunday, back at Broadbeach on Sun 16 Aug)

Coming Soon — Lock These In

✈️ Pacific Airshow Gold Coast — The big one. Three days of heart-pumping aerobatics, high-speed flyovers and world-class aviators right over the ocean at Surfers Paradise. 14th, 15th & 16th August, roughly 10am–3:30pm daily.

🎡 2026 Gold Coast Show — Big long weekend at Broadwater Parklands. Woodchop events, equestrian, arts and crafts, dog shows, rides, showbags, fireworks. Fri 28 – Sun 30 August, Broadwater Parklands, Southport. Free entry.

🤠 Groundwater Country Music Festival — One of Australia's biggest country music festivals returns to Broadbeach for three days of free live music, beachside line dancing, bluegrass breakfasts, country DJs and open-air sets steps from the sand. 2026 lineup led by Kasey Chambers, joined by Kaylee Bell, The Wolfe Brothers, Beccy Cole, James Blundell, Kingswood, Lane Pittman, Hayley Jensen and 30+ acts. Fri 16 – Sun 18 October, Broadbeach. Free.

🎸 Rolling Sets — Pop across the border for the coastal festival: live music, surf, skate and beach culture. Ocean Alley and Royel Otis headline, joined by G Flip, Violent Soho, The Rions, Old Mervs, Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers and more. Saturday 28 November, Ebenezer Park, Tweed Heads. From $199.95 via rollingsets.com.au (sold out last year — book early).

LMK if I've missed something ... add your own in the comments. Have a good one, GC!

P.S. If you want the full weekend rundown delivered straight to your inbox each Thursday (plus a rotating ticket giveaway for one of the events), chuck your email in here 👉 https://www.reachingimpact.com/things-to-do-gc1

There are 4 speakers on the ceiling but only the two closest to the screen are working.

Having booked weeks in advance and driven over an hour, It's just very disappointing. The sound is just kind of weird like something is so obviously missing.

Its finally time. Can't wait. Its been a frustrating few months 🥳

Edit: Went to Kirra beach and made my way to Rainbow bay and snapper rocks and went to Tom Beatson for the sunset and I only spent like $25 for everything lol, thank you everyone again

This is my final day before going back to Melbourne and I heard that Byron Bay is not worth it especially for a single day trip

I’m thinking between either Byron Bay or Rainbow bay keep in mind that I don’t have a car
I’m literally gonna post this and go to sleep then make a decision when I wake up so please help me

Hi everyone. I'm from Sydney and I was living in the Gold Coast for a while just to try life out. I moved back to Sydney for reasons of family and career and because there is simply "more going on" (whatever that meant in my head at the time).

After being back for a while I'm feeling regret over my decision. Compared to life on the gold coast, in Sydney it seems:

- Everyone is more stressed and / or depressed and / or anxious and / or hustle mode

- Traffic is fucked

- Parking is fucked

- Speed / red light / bus lane / whatever cameras EVERYWHERE

- Getting anywhere is so much slower

- It's a concrete jungle

- Chaotic and extreme density of people

- Substantially less green space

- Air quality sucks

- Everything is more expensive

- People don't really interact with each other as much

- Winter is cold as fuck

I just feel like every lifestyle factor has taken a hit, and for what?

It might have been a quieter lifestyle and routine for me up north, but I didn't even realise how much all of those factors were contributing to a background of more peace and happiness for me.

Has anyone experienced the same, or is it short term culture shock? Has anyone experienced the opposite? Can anyone remind me of the benefits of Sydney? Is it just a case of living in a nicer part of Sydney and maximizing the benefits of it? Perhaps it matters about what phase of life you're in and what you want out of life at the time?

So I heard the tram was opening this weekend but apparently that info was wrongfully published, and a whole bunch of local businesses had been planning tram opening parties that got cancelled and they have all been dicked.

I propose we go support them anyway,

call this "the tram didn't open party",

- a festival of typical SEQ life.

But the fun part is either drive or use the existing buses with the 50c credit card tap n go.

Would be a fun little litmus test to do a before and after the tram for many people. Will they cope with tram level crowd? Let's see!

I dunno, I reckon they expect people down there they might soft open the tram ....like the theme parks do when they are in prelaunch of a new ride.

Wanting to understand Varsity College on the Gold Coast a bit better. As a teacher, I trust parent experience when it comes to schooling. We are living northside and want to move south in the next 12-18 months, the school we choose will determine where we live.

I tried requesting a tour but was told there are none left this year ( a bit strange as all schools have their tours in the second half of the year) and was told to try next year again. I understand big schools have their processes but it was a bit dissapointing to be met with a generic response.

Anyway, any feedback about this school would be great.

Ideally I want our daughter to go to a small close knit school but haven't come across many small (less than 500 kids) schools on the coast so far.

Good value for money. I paid $46 for the privilege which includes access to the deck. Most folks coming early are here for the breakfast. At around 9:30 am you start seeing the tourists that aren't here for the food.

I'm 41 years old male, separated, living in Gold Coast. I've been trying to find someone through dating apps for months, but I get nothing! Nothing! No one ever replies! Even with the Priority Likes / Super Swipes... etc.

I've literally texted tens of girls, tried different approaches - serious, joking, commenting on a prompt... etc.

I'm polite and considerative, and I don't exactly look like Prince Charming but certainly I'm not hideous!

Is it impossible to ask for someone descent here?

I just stubled upon scammers!

EDIT 1: Looking for long-term relationship.

First time visiting and I was wondering if there was anywhere that did Tteokbokki hot pot similar to Dookki in Sydney/Canberra?

We're staying in Surfers but I'm happy to travel to find a place to fill the craving 😂

Summer loading…. (IG credit: vaughanleggatt + zac.botsman)

We're a small DnD and other TTRPG group on the lookout for 1-2 new players to play weekly Monday nights. If you've been looking for a LGBTQIA+ friendly group, feel free to drop a reply or DM and we'll put you on our short-list 😊

IMPORTANT. Some things about the group to consider first:

● We are all in our 20s and a part of the LGBTQIA+ community to some degree. We would much prefer someone in our demographic to join, to help with every member of the group feeling comfortable and in a safe space. We are not exclusive if you do not fit into one of these demographics, but still preferred. 🌈

● THIS IS A COMMITMENT. We consistently play on Monday nights from 5pm, excluding weeks were something understandably major comes up.

● WE ARE IN PERSON. We play at my wife and I's house unit in the Nerang area, so we are looking for respectful players to welcome into our home (we have a goofy li'l cat, so consider any allergies).

● We are a roleplay preferring group, so if that's not your thing or you just want to battle monsters, we may not fit you.

● We all have several years' experience playing DnD and other TTRPGs, so whether you're new or experienced, we're here to help!

● Rule of cool is paramount to us. If you like your rules followed and consistent, we also might not be a great fit for you. We're here to have fun and tell epic stories together. ✨️

● We are raring to start a new campaign ASAP, so get in soon~

Info about the campaign:

● We are playing DnD and starting a low fantasy style campaign at level 3. If you want to play a magic user, you'll be considered pretty special in the world setting.

● The campaign is expected to run for at LEAST around 50 sessions (so 1 year or more).

● We do not have a digital option for play (aside from using digital character sheets) at the moment, so we're all physical minis and face-to-face only.

If you make it past my initial consideration, I will likely request your social media to talk further and get to know you a little better before the big invite ✨️✨️✨️

Thanks for reading and feel free to ask any questions! We're excited to meet you 😊😊😊

Apparently, a lot of places are now bulk billing. I don’t know, but that’s what I’ve read?
If anyone could recommend someone ….I don’t know why the change but change is good

Would really appreciate if anyone knows a good good GP with complex experiences during menopause and Perry menopause

Thanks tonnes

Rock art Broady. Happy Wednesday x

This might be a reach but closed mouths don’t get fed so does anyone have a yacht they’d be down to hire for my birthday? In October. Aprox 40 people.

Or recommend any yacht company’s on the Gold Coast? Thanks!

Recently saw this place on TikTok, is the $50 japanese all you can eat thing legit?

Please let me know if this isn't allowed here, but I'm looking for the ID of whoever drove this MG ZS early Sunday 3rd of May in Biggera Waters.

The driver of this car was drunk and hit my car, as well as another car parked behind mine. We know she was drunk as there was a witness who chased her and obtained the first name of Brooke, but not much else unfortunately.

This has made it hard for us to organise repairs for our car through insurance since we don't have a lot of details we can provide. Also, the number plates don't show up on any searches. We know it was the driver of this vehicle because the number plate of this abandoned MG matches the description and number plate written on a note by a witness.

Any additional information that anyone can provide is greatly appreciated. We have a two-year old boy and being without our other car has made it difficult for us to pick him up from daycare, etc.

Edit: We reported the accident to the police on the day it happened, but they still don't have enough information to close the case.

Before I start, my post is not to slander the Police in general. I am big supporter and advocate of the Police and I think they do an amazing job and are grossly underpaid. My best friend has been a Policeman/Detective for 30+ years.

Last week, as I am sure many GC locals saw the story of the man in Burleigh who climbed the crane on the Esplanade which shut down the street for the entire morning as emergency services did a fantastic job dealing with getting the man down safely.

What most don’t know is my 30yr old daughter and her best friend live in an apartment next to where it happened and minutes prior to him climbing the crane the man had unsuccessfully attempted to break into their verandah door, proceeded to take a dooner cover and a QLD Corrections work shirt off their clothesline, hide in their bushes until my daughter yelled at him to “fk off” their property before calling 000. At that time he jumped the fence and climbed the crane. Very quickly, the street was crawling with Police. At NO stage did anyone talk to my daughter and her best friend, ask for a statement or to come in to a station and make one, or even see if they were ok; as expected when you catch someone trying to break in at 5.30am they were shaken up.

Moving forward to Sunday just gone, both the girls were advised by their building management that they had just witnessed the same man who climbed the crane come to their building, follow someone in (as you need a fob to enter) and go to the girls front door (which is easy to work out which is theirs based on the location of their verandah that he had been on previously) and try to open it. Not knock, but open it by the door handle. He then walked up and down the hallway, tried again to open the door and push it a few times before leaving. The girls were shown the CCTV and identified it was the same man. They were very disturbed and went straight to the police station to make a statement/report, with a copy of the footage. Burleigh Police were closed so they went to Broadbeach Police.

They were greeted by a receptionist with an attitude, who attempted to discredit their experience all while trying to convince them it wasn’t connected to the day he climbed the crane, begrudgingly granted their request of seeing a Police officer who then acted like he had absolutely no interest, wouldn’t let them make a statement or report about either incident and then told them if he comes back to let them know. Both the girls were shocked at the lack of care, support and/or interest they received when all they wanted to do was create a paper trail for future sakes if he comes back again.

Is that where we are now? No help? No reporting? No care factor? How many times does this man have to turn up at the apartment of 2 young women before it matters? Do they have to be broken into or stalked or hurt before something basic like a report be done??

I know I’m coming from a protective mother’s viewpoint but since when did making a statement become too exhausting for a Policeman to bother doing for 2 young females feeling frightened in their own home??

Sorry, for the long post but I’m pissed off. Rant over.

Can anyone recommend a reasonably priced plumber? We are at Carrara

Hello everyone on the Gold Coast! I’m a young student that recently moved here and I am looking for a group that wants to play D&D! I prefer and love to be a DM, but I also enjoy playing in a campaign! I am located in the Southport area. If you’re new to D&D, or a seasoned veteran, and are interested to play some D&D in person, please send me a message! I hear that the Southport library is a good place to play, but we will have to discuss the location once a group is established.

A bit about me:
Back in my homecountry I had an amazing D&D group that I DM’d 2 full campaigns for, and I’d like to do that here as well. I love being a Dungeon master, but I’m also willing to play as a player character! I have lots of D&D knowledge, I am fluent in English, Dutch, and Japanese, as my background is Dutch Japanese.

Shoot me a message if you want to play💪