00:00A slice of paradise being loved to death.
00:05Everyone loves this place, that's the trouble.
00:07The Gattos moved to the southern Gold Coast in 1989.
00:11We didn't see the Gold Coast as a city, we saw it more as a great place to go and live and have fun.
00:18Since then their children and grandkids have moved to North Queensland.
00:23It's too expensive for them to live here anymore.
00:26The development, beachside in particular, the height of the high rises, it is a shame.
00:34They live in the state seat of Corumbin, which covers the southernmost suburbs of the Gold Coast.
00:40It's been held by the LNP for 20 years, but is their most marginal seat at just 0.5%.
00:48To stand up for my community, but also to fight for my community on things like housing, cost of living and crime.
00:55If the LNP is voted in later this month and Ms Gerber is re-elected, she'll become the Youth Justice Minister.
01:03When I'm talking with locals, I've never met so many people that have been impacted by crime.
01:08Labor has pre-selected a former soldier in the battle for Corumbin.
01:12We build infrastructure, the critical stuff that we need, such as the Tugan Satellite Hospital.
01:18We're upgrading our schools, we're widening the M1.
01:22One of Corumbin's most divisive issues is the 13km expansion of the city's light rail to Koolangatta Airport.
01:31It's being pushed by the city's council with initial support from the state government.
01:38The LNP, however, says it would halt the project for community consultation.
01:43An anti-light rail development candidate might prove to be a thorn in the LNP's side.
01:50Enter independent candidate Cath Down.
01:54She came just a few hundred votes short of unseating a veteran Gold Coast city councillor in the March local government elections.
02:02Her platform is anti-light rail and anti-development.
02:07I stand for heavy rail to be completed to the airport, zero emission buses and east-west connections that already have transport
02:15to allow for some development, whether it be three or four storey walk-ups of affordable housing.
02:21Anything to keep this piece of paradise as is.
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