Gold Coast residents are outraged over a multi-billion dollar plan to turn Kirra Beach into a super port that includes a massive cruise terminal and a casino resort. <\/p>\n
WORLD champion surfers Mick Fanning and Joel Parkinson have backed calls to turn every Gold Coast beach into World Surfing Reserves. <\/p>\n
Fanning and Parkinson hit the surf break at Kirra to rally support for the proposal early this morning. <\/p>\n
Brad Farmer, head of National and World Surfing Reserves, urged Premier Campbell Newman to rule out \"all commercial development\" on Gold Coast beaches. <\/p>\n
He said the move would \"protect the Gold Coast from environmentally destructive cruise ship terminals and beachfront casinos\". <\/p>\n
\"Our world surfing champions Mick Fanning and Joel Parkinson have backed the idea,\" he said. <\/p>\n
\"We need an iron-clad agreement to ensure our beaches are off limits.\" <\/p>\n
Parko to stop Broadwater cruise terminal <\/p>\n
FORMER world surfing champion Joel Parkinson has turned his attention to stopping the Broadwater cruise ship terminal now that plans for Bilinga are dead in the water. <\/p>\n
Premier Campbell Newman this week killed off any hopes billionaire developer Bob Ell and his business partners had of building the Gold Coast Ocean Terminal near Kirra Beach. <\/p>\n
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