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“ONE could take the view that the Sunshine Coast has certainly been dudded.” From a diplomatic man these words are as close as you’ll get to open criticism, but University of the Sunshine Coast Vice-Chancellor Professor Greg Hill is struggling to hide his disappointment as a political spat over the new medical school crisis continues.

THE Sunshine Coast’s peak business body says the trolling war that’s erupted over the Sunshine Coast University Hospital’s medical school is a bad look for the region. Sunshine Coast Business Council chairwoman Sandy Zubrinich said despite repeated calls for all three levels of government on the Coast to work together on the region’s “big issues”,…

UPDATE 12.15pm: Sunshine Coast Mayor Mark Jamieson has said the cost of an advertising campaign pushing for more medical student places at the new hospital is “peanuts”. Responding to criticism leveled at him on Twitter by state MP for Kawana, Jarrod Bleijie, Cr Jamieson today said the financial cost of the #OperationMedSchool campaign was insignificant…

The Sunshine Coast Business Council (SCBC) has welcomed the state government’s recent announcement that it is undertaking preliminary research to gauge interest in another regional integrated resort development in Queensland, labelling the move as a rare opportunity for economic growth on the Sunshine Coast.

Mark your diaries now for the upcoming corporate luncheon… The New Zealand Story: was it worth the journey? Thursday 29th September 2016 | 12.15 – 2.30pm Navigator Room, 26degrees Bar+Venue, 10 Leeding Terrace, Caloundra More details and booking information available by clicking the image below or on The-NZ-Story_Corporate-Luncheon flyer.

THE Sunshine Coast has done enough planning for light rail, now it just needs to find someone to build it.   That was the message from Curtin University Professor Peter Newman who delivered a key-note speech to a room of movers and shakers yesterday. 

Over 150 of the most influential academics, business people and government officials came together on 11 August to participate in the ‘Realising the Ripple Effect’ conference hosted by the Sunshine Coast Business Council in Maroochydore.

The Sunshine Coast Business Council will tackle some of the big issues this week when it facilitates a forum to foster collaboration between all levels of government and Sunshine Coast businesses community representatives.

Labelling this week’s Sunshine Plaza expansion announcement as a another positive step forward in transforming the Sunshine Coast into a thriving economic hub, the Sunshine Coast Business Council has expressed its hope that the move will spur further large-scale investment in the region.

Academics, businesspeople and government officials will come together on Thursday, 11 August to participate in a half-day conference which will consider whether the Sunshine Coast is positioned to successfully deliver an economic ‘ripple effect’ similar to those being experienced by comparable health precincts nationally and internationally.