The overall coverage from the Gold Coast Bulletin has been discernibly negative regarding Lawrence Springborg and his policies, writes Ross Stapleton.
Gold coast 
Carrara stadium funding political football raining goals for ALP
Now the ALP has a ready-made partisan issue where a vote for them is essentially a mandate for an AFL Gold Coast club — while voting for the LNP will all but kill it off. Such a stark choice mocks Springborg’s political radar, writes Ross Stapleton.
AFL punt may fall short on the Gold Coast
The Gold Coast Turkeys? Now there’s a likely name for the new AFL side, writes an interested observer.
AFL’s Gold Coast bid is far from a sunny place
At AFL HQ they continue to beat the drum in support of their plans to have a team on the Gold Coast by 2011. But how? wonders Francis Leach.
The AFL’s $40m Gold Coast hurdle
Why is the AFL putting its chosen Gold Coast consortium through the effort and expense of meeting tough criteria when the toughest hurdle of all is yet to be negotiated by the AFL itself? asks Jeff Wall.
Reporting standards go out the window in Haneef witchhunt
Even terror suspects have the same rights as any other individual. So New Ltd journos Lincoln Wright and Paula Doneman should apologise to Dr Haneef after incorrectly claiming he was involved in a plot to blow up a Gold Coast building.
