---
title: "Gold Coast Journal"
description: "A Gold Coast lifestyle magazine and local guide covering beaches, food, culture, homes, wellbeing, shopping, business, events, weekend trips and useful classifieds."
source: "https://goldcoastjournal.com/"
markdown: "https://goldcoastjournal.com/index.md"
publisher: "Mafia Publishing"
corrections: "frankie@goldcoastjournal.com"
---

# Gold Coast Journal

[![The cover of Volcanic Winter, a novel by Mark Rutherford.](<https://goldcoastjournal.com/media/volcanic-winter/w480.webp>)](<https://goldcoastjournal.com/volcanic-winter>)

## [Volcanic Winter, by Mark Rutherford](<https://goldcoastjournal.com/volcanic-winter>)

— When a plan to combat climate change threatens life on Earth, one man has seven days to stop it.

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## [Advertise in Gold Coast Journal](<https://goldcoastjournal.com/advertise-with-us>)

— A directory entry runs for thirty days from $19 including GST, goes live once it is approved, and stays on the site afterwards at a decaying position rather than vanishing. You set the amount and you can change it whenever you like.

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## [Gold Coast Marriage Office](<https://goldcoastjournal.com/marriage-office-goldcoast>)

— Simple, affordable paperwork-only marriages on the Gold Coast. Book a time, bring your witnesses, and be married in about ten minutes.

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Business

## [The Internet, by Josh Withers](<https://goldcoastjournal.com/the-internet-by-josh-withers>)

— A web development studio building websites for small Australian service businesses that need a modern site: fast, plainly written, and built to be found and quoted by search and answer engines as readily as by a person.

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## [Sunshine Coast Wedding Directory](<https://goldcoastjournal.com/sunshine-coast-wedding-directory>)

— Caloundra and Mooloolaba up to the Noosa river, and inland to Montville and Maleny: the celebrants, photographers and venues working the Sunshine Coast.

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Food & Drink

## [The Keys to Brisbane](<https://goldcoastjournal.com/keys-to-brisbane>)

— A Brisbane city magazine for food, culture, homes, wellbeing, shopping, the river, local business and what is on, with useful classifieds beside the reading.

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## [Funeral Celebrants](<https://goldcoastjournal.com/funeral-celebrants>)

— A directory of funeral and memorial celebrants working across Australia, listed by state, so a family arranging a service can find someone close by without a search.

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## [Brisbane Wedding Weekly](<https://goldcoastjournal.com/brisbane-wedding-weekly>)

— The classifieds pages for getting married in Brisbane and South East Queensland: photographers, venues, celebrants, florists, cars and cakes, in one column you can read top to bottom.

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## [The Apple Nation](<https://goldcoastjournal.com/the-apple-nation>)

— An independent guide to living with Apple gear, and a directory of the people who fix, sell, support and build for it. Not affiliated with Apple Inc.

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## [Gold Coast Wedding Directory](<https://goldcoastjournal.com/gold-coast-wedding-directory>)

— Wedding businesses from Coolangatta and Burleigh through Southport, and back up into the Tamborine hinterland — listed by category, with the contact details out in front.

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Business

## [Diploma](<https://goldcoastjournal.com/diploma>)

— Australian training and the people who deliver it: registered training organisations, VET providers and professional-development bodies, listed by the field each course leads into.

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## [Someone who will actually turn up](<https://goldcoastjournal.com/finds>)

— Finds lists Australian trades and home services — builders, electricians, plumbers, carpenters, painters, roofers and landscapers — organised by the job you need done rather than by the trade name.

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## [Listen](<https://goldcoastjournal.com/listen>)

— Australian podcasts sorted by what they are actually about — news, true crime, comedy, sport, business, history — with a plain description of each and a link to where it plays.

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Business

## [The Best](<https://goldcoastjournal.com/the-best>)

— A short list, by field: Australian operators who are among the best at what they do, filed by trade rather than by suburb.

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Business

## [ANSETT](<https://goldcoastjournal.com/ansett>)

— Australia's national guide to services, entertainment, travel and tourism: the operators, venues, practitioners and trades worth the trip, listed by what they do and where they do it.

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## About this source

Published by [Mafia Publishing](<https://mafia.net.au/>). Corrections: [frankie@goldcoastjournal.com](<mailto:frankie@goldcoastjournal.com>).

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