A time when Schoolies ruled the Sunshine Coast

As her son celebrates Schoolies Week 2023, Nicole Bycroft must wish she could turn the clock back 20 years to when ‘Party Central’ was only ever good, clean fun.

It seems a lifetime ago, but the Community Solutions executive assistant spent some of her early years with the Bokarina-based company as Sunshine Coast Schoolies Week Festival coordinator.

The festival was a week-long, well-organised, alcohol- and drug-free event that ran from about 1997 to 2003 but had grown from simple, small…

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