Hanging on to paradise

Lightning striking the tower of the building









VIEW from the top . . . the coastal landscape of southeast Queensland has been more aggressively developed than anywhere else in coastal Australia.


ON A FINE day from the observation tower of Q1, Surfers Paradise, still the world's tallest residential building, you can see from southern Brisbane to Byron Bay.

What a landscape. To the south, the high rises of Coolangatta and then Mt Warning, in all its world heritage glory. To the west, massive road systems cut through the landscape, linking acreage dwellers and canal home owners to the beach.

On the northern strip, high rises again, in greater concentration than anywhere else in Australia.
In the distance Moreton Bay offers a glimpse of green, though the scar of sand mining on Stradbroke is a reminder that in this state mining always comes first.

Welcome to southeast Queensland, where the coastal landscape has been more aggressively developed and less green space has been retained than anywhere else in coastal Australia. Soon the $600 million Tugun bypass will whisk Brisbanites into the arms of another state.

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