Once a hotbed of sometimes ferocious alcohol-fuelled frivolity, Schoolies on the Gold Coast has taken a more wholesome turn with revellers invoking responsibility over recklessness.
Key points:
- 20,000 high school graduates are attending the Gold Coast event
- Thousands of volunteers, police and paramedics are there to help
- Organisers says teenagers are behaving better and drinking less
More than 20,000 school leavers have descended on Surfers Paradise for the first weekend of Australia’s largest…