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[Dino]

Gold Coast City Council decision is on Monday...........

http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2010/07/17/239381_gold-coast-news.html
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[gazman]

This company has been operating here for several years.Only now is there a problem."Quads screaming past" ,yeah right,i think they all have standard put-put mufflers on,not open race exhausts!!But 45 metres from the boundary might be a bit close!! the fun police strike again!
gazman

[yogie]

it all comes down to the media and how you aproach them

" local residents OUT to destroy local business threating jobs and tourist dllars..."

Half that story was written by the protesters, years ago when i used aproach newspapers for articles on matters for work, we used to prepare half the story for them, they polished it up and printed it. Has anyone actually compared these local rags to to a major daily, not much going down exect for a cake compettition, so when they get a story dropped on their lap, its manar from heaven, maybe this bloke should have asked for a right of reply... I would of.
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[Dino]

I agree fully Yogie.
That is a pretty standard example of lazy journalism.
The reporting "paper" ( the Gold Coast Bulletin. ) is much bigger than the narrowness of that article would imply.
But the GC bulletin is not afraid of a dramatic headline OR quoting out of context..........
If a topic is hot enough, "right of reply" is available.
And the perception of the the people ready to jump on any bandwagon is not at all hindered by all the facts, again.
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Gazman. Your comments are spot on. That little company have turned a lot of tourists onto quad riding, and the right way to start doing it.
The company has agreed to shift the annoying track, and have in excess of the required monitoring in place.
The noise police have been and gone. No case.
Hopefully the council will back the business, or Yogies alternate headline might be a reality.
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[gazman]

or the complaining neighbours could allways move next to the airport,then complain about that! GC Bulliten HEADLINES,see small story on page 19.
gazman

[Dazz]

if he was riding his farm quad arround the property or mowing his lawn each day would he have complaints .... NO but the fact hes making money changes every thing ... perhaps they should quit the quad operation and get into some real hevy farming with very very large farming eqipment and run it all day long .... theres allways some wanker that wants to give us a bad rap ....

[Dino]

His business got approval to go ahead after several hours of debate,

BUT,

http://www.nbntv.com.au/index.php/2010/07/19/quad-bike-business-could-be-overturned/

I,ve got a cold, but I can still smell a rat, or two!
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[Rossco]

Hey Dino, they say in the write-up that no one heard anything (HOW SUS IS THAT ) Do you know how many quads went missing

[Dino]

Rossco wrote:

Hey Dino, they say in the write-up that no one heard anything (HOW SUS IS THAT ) Do you know how many quads went missing

The original write up was 7 x Honda and a Can Am....

http://www.ozatv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14902
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