This is the first announced project that pulls funding from a £24 million coast communities fund to support tourism businesses and hopefully create thousands of new jobs over the next five years.
Foreign surfers and global competitions bring an estimated $3.3 billion to the Gold Coast, but the proposed locations for new cruise ship terminals would wreck these world-renowned breaks and harsh the mellow of surfers worldwide.
Even though the pull of enacting your deeply held beliefs is strong, so is the desire not to see tens of thousands of people unemployed and your most promising industry thrown into crisis.