When you graduate from high school in Australia and your family has some money, you’ll typically go to a resort such as Surfers Paradise and party for a week. It’s called “Schoolies.”
I don’t remember this sort of thing 30 years ago.
If you don’t have air conditioning or a pool at home, your kids are likely to accuse you of owning a “pov house.”
When I lived in Australia in the 1970s, about 5% of the population went to university. Now it is about half, about the same rate as America.
TENNIS wild child Bernard Tomic has been caught up in a major Gold Coast party drug investigation.
Tomic is believed to have been at a penthouse party in Surfers Paradise where two teenage girls were allegedly supplied cocaine by local nightclub king Jamie Pickering.
The Ferrari-driving Pickering, who owns prominent Surfers nightclubs SinCity and Vanity, was arrested in March as part of Operation Kilo Fraction, a 19-month police probe into bikie and organised crime links to the Glitter Strip’s party drug trade.
More than 150 people were arrested and tens of millions of dollars in drugs and alleged proceeds of crime, including luxury homes, were seized in the operation.
Pickering, the son of 1970s national political cartoonist Larry Pickering, was charged with five offences including supplying drugs to minors.
