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Controversial towers gain approval

The controversial development for Palm Beach has been unanimously approved by the Gold Coast City Council’s planning committee. Robina Councillor Hermann Vorster was among those supporting the two 12storey Magnolia Towers. “I think the development will enhance the precinct,” he said.

Dire hot weather warning for 2017

This year is on track to be the third hottest on record. The two warmer years were effected by the El Nino phenomena, the UN’s World Meteorological Organisation says. The WMO has reported average temperatures from 2013 to 2017 are likely to be the highest since accurate measuring began more than a century ago.

Rude guests at Cup stare at Paris Jackson

Footage of Paris Jackson, 19, entering the Myer marquee at the Melbourne Cup makes for unseemly viewing. Guests turn around and stare as Jackson walks through the crowd to a cordoned off area. Earlier, on arriving at Flemington flanked by minders, a visibly uncomfortable Jackson said it was “great” but “cold” to be in Australia.

Ultimate Cup loser’s $1.1b fail

Nineteen years and more than $1.1 billion later, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is still a Melbourne Cup loser. The Dubai ruler and man behind the world’s biggest thoroughbred racing operation, Godolphin, came up short yet again. At least this time losing was easy to accept. Melbourne Cup failure hasn’t always been so easily swallowed by the Prime Minister of the UAE, especially after reportedly splurging more than a $1 billion on his racing operations in Australia since he first set his sights on his fruitless pursuit of the Cup.