Currumbin Waters, Queensland

John Flynn Private Hospital is an acute care facility in the southern Gold Coast suburb of Tugun. The 345 bed hospital provides services to people of southern Gold Coast and parts of the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales. Originally opened as the Moran Hospital of Excellence with the Moran Clinic. The hospital was not successful and was left abandoned by 1991. The hospital was revived by 1993 and renamed John Flynn who was responsible in 1928 for the first outback medical services which became known as the Flying Doctor Service. John Flynn Hospital complex consists of the main hospital building, specialist medical suites, the John Flynn Cancer Centre, and the hospital also has an onsite 24-hour pharmacy.

Currumbin State School is a public co-educational primary school located in the Gold Coast suburb of Currumbin, Queensland, Australia. It is administered by the Queensland Department of Education, with an enrolment of 1,087 students and a teaching staff of 77, as of 2023. The school serves students from Prep to Year 6.

The Pines is a major sub-regional shopping centre in the southern suburb of Elanora on the Gold Coast, Queensland. The Pines is the only shopping centre on the southern Gold Coast that has all three major supermarkets under its one roof.

Salk Oval is a multi-sports venue in Palm Beach, a suburb in the Gold Coast, Australia. It includes an Australian rules football and Cricket ground. It used by the Palm Beach Currumbin Australian Football Club and the Palm Beach Currumbin Cricket Club. The ground was named after American physician Jonas Salk.

Currumbin ( kə-RUM-bən) is a coastal suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Currumbin had a population of 2,920 people.

Piggabeen is a town located in north-eastern New South Wales, Australia, in the Tweed Shire. Piggabeen adjoins Cobaki Lakes that is situated 1.2 kilometres (0.75 mi) to the northeast, Cobaki to the South East and Currumbin Valley that is situated approximately 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) to the northwest and across the state border of Queensland. Once predominantly a dairy farming town Piggabeen now mainly consists of acreage homesites and small hobby farms. Piggabeen has a valley that leads northwest towards the Queensland border. Piggabeen and its valley are part of the Tweed Shield Volcano and Caldera that is the largest erosion caldera in the southern hemisphere, with Mount Warning being the extinct volcano. Landmarks located in Piggabeen include the Old Piggabeen Hall and School that were both established in 1919, Piggabeen Creek, as well as Campbell Hill, (formerly Mount Campbell). The Aboriginal meaning for Piggabeen (Valley of the Palms) is Bundjulung Piccabeen or bigibin for the Bangalow palms.

Palm Beach Currumbin State High School (PBC High School or PBC) is an independent co-educational public school (government funded), in the Gold Coast suburb of Currumbin, Queensland, Australia. PBC is Queensland's southernmost coastal High school and caters for a large catchment area of students.

Tugun ( TOO-gən) is a beach-side coastal suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Tugun had a population of 6,588 people.It borders New South Wales. Some locals refer to the suburb as Tugz (pronounced choo-gs).

Cobaki Lakes is a suburb of Tweed Heads, located in the Northern Rivers Region of New South Wales, along the Queensland and New South Wales border.

Cobaki ( KOH-bə-ky) is a town located in north-eastern New South Wales, Australia, in the Tweed Shire.

Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary is a heritage-listed zoological garden at 28 Tomewin Street, Currumbin, Queensland, Australia. It was built in 1947 onwards. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 18 September 2009. The sanctuary is world-renowned for its feeding of huge flocks of free-flying wild rainbow lorikeets, which come to the sanctuary to feast off the special mixture which the lorikeets eat. The multitude of events, shows and attractions include dingo encounters, free flight bird shows and feeding of the park's massive saltwater crocodile. The park also contains a serious aspect of its work and exhibits, and behind the scenes includes a state-of-the-art veterinary and rehabilitation hospital. The sanctuary was opened as the Currumbin Bird Sanctuary by Alex Griffiths in 1947 as a scheme to stop the local lorikeet population destroying his flower plantations. The lorikeets still flock to the sanctuary twice daily to be fed by visitors. The sanctuary now houses one of the largest collections of Australian native species in the world. Exhibits include Tasmanian devils, a reptile house and in December 2017 the sanctuary opened their new exotics precinct Lost Valley which is home to lemurs, red pandas, capybara, cotton-top tamarins, tree kangaroos and one of largest walk-through aviary in the Southern Hemisphere with free flying birds. The sanctuary also has a miniature railway that has been operating since 1964. In May 2011, the hospital has appealed for donations and government support as it faces a funding shortage that may force it to turn away injured wildlife.

The Gold Coast Desalination Plant is a 125 ML/d (46 gigalitres per year) reverse osmosis, water desalination plant located in Bilinga, a seaside suburb of the Gold Coast, in Queensland, Australia. It supplies water to the South East Queensland region via the South East Queensland Water Grid. The plant first supplied water to the grid in February 2009. It is owned by Seqwater and operated by Veolia. As of Summer 2020/2021, the plant is operating at maximum production capacity.