Schoolies over for another year
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The curtain has come down on official Schoolies Week activities on the Gold Coast.
Workers started dismantling infrastructure, including the schoolies' hub, early this morning.
The chairman of the schoolies advisory group, Mark Reaburn, says school leavers from southern states have different needs.
Police say the final official night of Gold Coast schoolies' celebrations was fairly quiet.
Most Queensland school leavers have booked out of their accommodation at the weekend and older schoolies from southern states moved in.
Superintendent Jim Keogh says there were few problems.
"Arrests were down considerably as has been the case pretty much all the way through schoolies. Behaviour has been a lot better and there were no serious offences to report," he said.
"Last night there were two persons arrested for disorderly conduct in licensed premises and that's not something we see with Queensland schoolies obviously because they are underage and can't get in licensed premises.
"They can go to Surfers Paradise, Broadbeach they can go wherever they like.
"We're really putting the facility there for the kids when if you've got a wrist band you're in, if they don't want to come in that's a matter for them because the group now is a group that can go to the nightclubs and now it's time for the nightclubs to know they can make a profit out of the schoolies because they're old enough to go and consume alcohol in the nightclubs."
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