Extracts from
Passion, Power & Prejudice

“The community can expect some stiff changes coming for its free-rolling lifestyle... The 'perfect world' regulations that will be in force and the means that will be used to protect the regional environment will change development patterns.”

"The classic story for me out of public responses to the Fitzgerald Inquiry was Christopher Skase stating publicly... that he would 'never do business with anyone who had been mentioned in the Fitzgerald Inquiry'."

“Russell Hinze led the investigations to the Gold Coast development industry."

"Tourism growth being squeezed by urban sprawl to the coast is a major threat."

"Arguments for the city not being able to reach 1,000,000 will be sunk by the reality that it might grow to even greater numbers when creativity and invention by the Gold Coast development industry finds a way to replace the short-term thinking that has dominated development in recent years."