The resort also used to host a professional Tennis event named the Mondial Australian Women's Hardcourts on the WTA Tour.
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The Surfers Paradise Australian Football Club are based at Sir Bruce Small Park and compete in the South East Queensland Australian Football League Division 1.
The Gold Coast Regional Botanic Gardens, formerly known as the Rosser Park Regional Botanic Gardens, and before that simply Rosser Park, are located on Ashmore Road, Benowa, Gold Coast, Australia.
After several years as a high-school teacher of art and technical drawing, mainly at Benowa, Merrimac and Beaudesert High Schools, he decided to work permanently as an artist and created the "Kookaburra Creek" story in the early 90's, which developed and expanded into "The Icon Collection" series during the following years.