Events & News

QSA co-sponsored the Canungra Sports Cup, an iconic Paragliding Competition in the Gold Coast Hinterland, which was organised by Gavin Zahner in 2025. The Cup involves a week of XC task racing in the peak Canungra spring season, which is a great season opener for pilots from southern states. The event was open for 70 pilots and limited to Sports Class EN-C gliders and below to create a level playing field for all pilots. The results can be viewed on Facebook.

#edit – Australia Wins the Silver Medal!# The 25th Hang Gliding World Championships. Three local pilots are competing in the championships in northern Spain from the 13th to the 26th of July. Jonny Durrand, the current world number one ranked pilot from the Gold Coast, along with Peter Burkit, also from the Gold Coast and Don Cramer, from St George will be at the event. There are actually three World Championships running together. Along with the 25th World Championships, there is the 15th FAI Women’s World Hang Gliding Championship and the 10th FAI World Hang Gliding Class 5 Championship.

In other news, the Teewah Airfield is under threat!

For those who travel along the Teewah Beach to Double Island Point, we wish to highlight that the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service intend to remove the Teewah Airfield located between Lake Cootharaba and the beach. This should raise serious concerns for everyone who lives and visits the area. The airfield is a critical asset enabling emergency evacuation for urgent medical cases, or in times of bush fire, cyclone or flood. This 79 years old grass airfield has been providing life-saving support to this isolated community for many years, and recently during the 2019 bushfires served as a staging area for the emergency services. At that time 13 fire-trucks and two helicopters utilised the airfield to come to the aid of the people at Teewah and the North Shore area. At that time, the emergency services had evacuated the population of Teewah who were standing on the beach and were terrified. This airfield also serves the same life saving purpose for visitors to the area. With such a life-saving asset it would be mad to close it, but that is the ill-considered plan of the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service.
We ask you to please join with us and sign a petition on the Queensland Parliament website to retain the airfield using the link below, or go to Queensland Parliament E-Petitions. Thank you for your support.
https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/Work-of-the-Assembly/Petitions/Petition-Details?id=4260