Numerous spats with community leaders, along with his recurring and controversial statements has
helped Tom Tate succeed in alienating himself from the entire Gold Coast and even nationwide surfing
community. His stance and remarks about cruise ships, surf breaks, people that do and don’t matter
and more generally his dismissive approach towards surfers themselves has left a lot of people
scratching their heads in disbelief // Photo Derrick Parbinger
MAYOR TATE’S BACKFLIP CAUGHT ON TAPE
I said
“I went to the election, and
form,
that ah, one of the ah plat ild
bu
was that ah, I intend to
der,
a cruise ship terminal, on
eak or
at The Spit. Not Wavebr
Spit’
anything, I said ‘on The
e, the
- in other words the on
put it
most contentious spot,
in the
in there. And ah, I said
don’t
last paragraph, ‘if you
me’,
want it, don’t vote for
ndate”
because I want a clear ma
Five months after
18th of September 2012 Mayor Tom Tate
being elected, Gold Coast
his controversial
reaffirming that even with
al backflip, his
last-minute cruise termin
for his proposed
campaign had clearly been
ebreak Island.
terminal to ‘NOT’ be on Wav