Couran Cove crisis: Who is Lachlan McIntosh?
2023-03-04 A man at the centre of a dispute, which culminated in hundreds of Couran Cove residents losing basic services, is an accountant with a long and complex history with the troubled island. So who is Lachlan McIntosh?
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Inside story: Residents reveal ‘third world’ conditions at Couran Cove
2023-03-03 Dozens of Couran Cove Island Resort residents have now gone more than two weeks without electricity and running water. They reveal how they are coping amid the ‘stressful’ conditions.
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15 minute cities, 5G: Inside the Coast’s top conspiracy theories
2023-02-25 From 15-minute cities to a ‘government psy-op’ on Couran Cove, Ann Wason Moore says why is the Gold Coast in the grip of preposterous plots?
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‘Nasty corporate bullies’: Violence erupts as island resort residents fight back
2023-02-17 Residents of the exclusive Couran Cove island resort off the Gold Coast have launched a fighting fund after power, water and gas were cut off amid a bitter body corporate dispute.
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Couran Cove residents without services over claims service provider is owed millions
2023-02-17 Housing and community recovery representatives from the Queensland government have visited residents at Couran Cove after essential services were suspended earlier this week due to claims of unpaid levies.
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Utilities cut off in Queensland community over bill dispute
2023-02-16 Some residents of a Queensland community have spent the night in darkness after their power and utilities were cut off.
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Residents of Couran Cove Island Resort on South Stradbroke Island to have utility services cut after millions owed in arrears
2023-02-15 Residents on an island off south-east Queensland are set to have essential services like power, gas and water cut off indefinitely over claims of unpaid body corporate levies.
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Couran Cove community left without power and running water over body corporate dispute | 7NEWS
2023-02-15 It used to be an idyllic island paradise, but residents at Couran Cove on South Stradbroke Island are now without power and running water.
Idyllic island paradise resort is about to become 'unliveable' as power company cuts electricity claiming it's owed $12million
2023-02-15 The latest in a long-running series of bitter disputes has seen residents on an island paradise lose their electricity, which they say will put elderly and disabled people in distress.
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Major win for power-less Couran Cove residents
2022-11-09 Residents of an embattled island community who had their electricity deliberately cut almost two months ago are celebrating a ‘win’.
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New laws to benefit unit owners in Queensland
2022-11-08 “That’s why we have made significant reforms to enhance body corporate governance and better protect Queensland unit owners in certain resorts and complex mixed-use developments, such as Couran Cove.”
‘Health emergency’: Couran Cove residents dealt fresh blow
2022-10-03 Residents of an embattled island community who had their electricity deliberately cut two weeks ago are reportedly facing a fresh ‘health emergency’.
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‘Distressed’: Support grows for power-less Couran Cove residents
2022-09-25 As dozens of residents in a Gold Coast island community entered their tenth day without electricity, another voice has demanded urgent action to fix the crisis.
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Strata Peak Body says Couran Cove Shows Property Law Reform Matters
2022-09-22 Peak property body Strata Community Association Qld (“SCA(Qld)”) has said this week’s crisis at
Couran Cove show the urgent need for reforms to restore equity for lot owners in body corporate
schemes across the State.
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Residents take ‘control back’ of embattled Couran Cove
2022-06-22 There has been a major win for property owners locked in a long-running dispute with their body corporate months after they called on the state government for help. WHAT IT MEANS
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Knife-wielding man terrifies embattled island resort residents
2022-04-29 Frustrated Gold Coast residents have spoken up about a frightening violent encounter, sewage overflow issues and a lack of transport services in their community.
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‘Too exclusive’: Truth about Couran Cove’s troubles
2022-01-09 The sad state of the once-exclusive Couran Cove resort is again on show for the world to see. This is the inside story of what went wrong.
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Mayor weighs in on rotting Couran Cove boardwalk
2022-01-07 Couran Cove residents say their council has forgotten them after multiple pleas to fix public infrastructure were ignored, saying: ‘If this was Broadbeach, the council would be all over it’.
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'Huge achievement': Why there's cause for celebration at Couran Cove
2021-10-23 Residents of an exclusive Gold Coast resort are facing more roadblocks in their long battle to get a basic service restored to properties.
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Residents of rundown island 'treated like second-class citizens'
2021-09-30 A lack of gas on a once idyllic island off the Gold Coast has been labelled as feeling like a human rights violation by affected residents who are fed up with taking cold showers.
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Major breakthrough in Couran Cove saga
2021-09-23 There has been a major update for dozens of residents of an exclusive island resort who have been without gas supply for six weeks.
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‘Unacceptable': MP reacts to foul conditions on Coast island
2021-09-10 Residents of an exclusive Gold Coast island resort have been told they will be without hot water supply for another two months.
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Probe into resort bar ‘built on conservation land’
2021-09-04 The council is investigating how a bar was built on protected land and without proper approval on a Gold Coast Island.
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Fresh problems strike Couran Cove resort
2021-02-25 Couran Cove is without a water risk management plan more than 15 months since Gold Coast Health found a “relatively high” level of arsenic in the drinking water.
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Paradise lost as fury grows at Coast resort
2020-11-07 A slice of Gold Coast heaven is in turmoil amid a multi-million dollar stoush which has residents in danger of losing electricity, water and sewerage.
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Island resort ‘nightmare’ worsens for owners
2020-06-15 The latest development in the Couran Cove Island Resort ‘dream-turned-nightmare involves the body corporates being sued by companies supplying infrastructure and maintenance services.
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Qld island resort sells for a buck
2019-07-24 A four-star resort on beautiful South Stradbroke Island has sold for a buck but it’s not the bargain of the century that it appears at first glance.
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Onterran calls in voluntary administrators after Couran Cove debacle
2019-03-11 It was supposed to be a cash cow that would bring Onterran (ASX: OTR) a $95 million boost through development, but Couran Cove Island Resort on Stradbroke Island quickly turned into a white elephant...
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Resort sold for a fraction of its build cost
2019-03-09 THE long-troubled Couran Cove Island Resort, built at a cost of $280 million more than 20 years ago, has been sold for substantially less.
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Eureka Group Holdings boss Greg Rekers wants Couran Cove to be seen as suburb of the Gold Coast
2016-09-02 THE man driving a $100m revamp breathing new life into embattled Couran Cove resort plans to reposition it as ‘a suburb of the Gold Coast’ not a secluded island.
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Retirement company moves into Couran Cove snapping up units on the island
2016-07-02 THE embattled Couran Cove Resort is set to be reinvented as a retirement village. The concept is the brainchild of Eureka Group.
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New company to take control of Couran Cove
2015-12-11 A COMPANY is poised to take control of the Couran Cove Island Resort in a move it says will save a great Gold Coast tourism asset.
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Ramada pulls out of Couran Cove due to concerns its reputation was in jeopardy
2015-12-09 WYNDHAM Hotel Group has withdrawn the global Ramada brand from the Couran Cove resort over concerns its reputation is being damaged.
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Couran Cove revival continues despite simmering dispute over levies and accounts
2015-02-09 CRAIG Dowling, whose Couran Cove resort is enjoying a buzz it hasn’t experienced for years, has a distraction.
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