THE HILLS ARE ALIVE WITH THE SOUND OF JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING:
The Gold Coast Hinterland as Natural Resource, Media Source and Liminal Space
Grahame Griffin
School of Arts , Griffith University , Gold Coast Campus , Australia
Abstract
T h e Gold Coast hinterland is a diverse and rapidly changing region in which supporters of both tourism and the environment, along with local media and residents, vie for position, power and influence as Gold Coast urbanism and imagery steadily advance. The hinterland is described as a buffer zone or liminal space separating the commercial excesses of the Coast from the publicly protected environment. In recent years two tourist cableway projects were planned to traverse this liminal space, but for some the projects also threatened the protected environment. Two Gold Coast newspapers dealt with the projects in ways that reflect and draw attention to the many-faceted forces of environmentalism and tourism as they interact along the vector that joins the Gold Coast to ‘its' hinterland.
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