THE Gold Coast tourism bureau has dropped a bombshell, trying to shatter the city’s unofficial “Glitter Strip’’ brand in a bid to talk up a more sophisticated image.

Zakiya Shaikh, a Mumbai homemaker, has always seen gold as her family’s financial safety net. Every festival and milestone, she would save up to buy a small gold ornament--sometimes a ring, sometimes ...

Victims of crime, defendants and witnesses are ‘falling through the cracks’ of an overwhelmed court system as in-custody numbers in Darwin spike by 250 per cent.