Revamp for Point Danger marine safety site

Dementia’s gender gap

IT is one of the leading causes of death in the country but dementia affects men and women differently.

University of Queensland health biostatistician Dr Michael Waller said a collaborative study with the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health examined 1.1 million Australian death certificates for any mention of dementia.

As people lived longer, the chance of getting dementia increased significantly, especially over the age of 80.

“We found that women had 14 per cent higher rates of death from the most common form of dementia – Alzheimer’s disease,” he said.

And men had a 20 per cent higher rate of death from vascular dementia, the second most common form. MORE than $2 million will be spent revamping a rundown Marine Rescue NSW operation office on the southern Gold Coast at Point Danger.

But the public will be asked for feedback on proposed designs today before construction is likely to begin at the Point Danger site between July and August.

The offices below the Captain Cook Memorial and Lighthouse were built as an extension to the site in 1990.

But a Tweed Shire Council statement said the building had been badly affected by “concrete cancer” and “numerous structural defects”.

The cost to maintain the offices to remain fit for operation by marine rescuer workers “is no longer sustainable”, the statement said.

Tweed’s council and Gold Coast City Council have partnered with the NSW Government to demolish and rebuild the office for $2.14 million.

The memorial, erected in 1971 on the Queensland-NSW border, marks the 200th anniversary of the voyage along the east coast of Australia by Captain James Cook on the HMS Endeavour.

The new

NSW office Marine will be Rescue jointly funded by the councils through grant funding of $973,000 from the NSW Government’s Restart NSW Regional Growth fund.

“Point Danger and the Captain Cook Lighthouse are iconic destinations for tourists but in the heart of the building Marine Rescue NSW is working to keep our waterways safe,” Member for Tweed Geoff Provest said.