At about this time last week, as I read The Guardian in a hotel room in Windsor, England, Cr Ingrid sat in a chair opposite, PC perched on lap, ear plugs resplendent, participating from afar at a Thursday night...
The New Noosa Plan is out for public review and feedback. It is a big and complex document. We are inviting you to send us your submission and if it's got chops we'll publish it on Open Noosa. Give your submission a good airing and get inspired by others.
As Black Lives Matter protests spread across the world, we sat down with a coffee and had a yarn with musician and former Mayor of Noosa and the Sunshine Coast Bob Abbot to hear his stories relating to Indigenous matters in our part of the world.
You asked where I stand. This is where I stand on what some call 'medical apartheid' and priorities in this difficult time of division.
Ordinary meetings of Noosa Council are rarely lively affairs. They tend to be tick-box night. But last Thursday it was an unexpected transport proposal, an unusual admission of wrong-doing from Cr Stockwell and the reappearance of Cr Pardon provided some spice to warm up a chilly winter’s evening at Tewantin.
Democracy dies in the dark. Open Noosa's reason for being is to further transparency and help formulate a shared vision for the Noosa Shire. In this Facebook post, Cr Ingrid Jackson, writes of the latest setback in her long...
Desire Gralton's submission to the New Noosa Plan looks at how the plan affects her personally and provides some observations of the changes in the Sunrise Beach area where mansions are replacing family homes and affordable housing sneaks out the back door. While the plan states to "provide densely landscaped settings with mature trees and vegetation retained wherever possible”, the truth is far from it. Could community placemaking events help Council to find a better way?
Submission to the 2019 Draft Noosa Plan on behalf of Noosa North Shore Association Inc members
While Noosa Council has gone to great lengths to engage the community through a long consultation process, the reality is that many residents simply...
Ingrid recounts how her letter to the editor at Noosa News were distorted and published on the newspaper’s website under a misleading and dishonest headline, going from ‘Incumbency is the big advantage in election campaigns’ to ‘You pay peanuts ($70,000 worth) and you get elected mayor’. Is this click bait needed to keep regional newspapers alive?
A local group of Queensland “Koala Crusaders” are planning to assist the vulnerable Glossy Black Cockatoos at the same time as the declining Noosa Shire Koalas through their great work revegetating a local area of future koala habitat.
Noosa Council is building a $2.5m playground in a rural village where old people outnumber the young nearly 3:1.
From koalas to humans - Meghan Halverson will keep up the crusade for a better world. Here are Meghan's answers to our five questions:
Are rules meant to be broken, ask Judy Barrass in response to Ingrid Jackson’s Article about the Noosa Plan. Judy believes families, societies and governments cannot operate without structure and agreed rules about what is acceptable and what is not, and a land use plan gives a structure to land use and confidence that there is and will be some order in how things happen. It's the big debate that needs to happen, and we welcome all views.
Noosa Draft Community Health and Well-Being Plan 2019-2024 is now open for comments on Council’s website. It identifies ageing of the population as a major issue, but it gives scant attention to the specific needs of older people and the particular burden of social isolation, disease, disability and dementia that comes with an older population.
Bettina believes that as a community good ethical standards enable us to operate with sincerity, rationality, competence, power, compassion and confidence. In this context she considers Gloster's approach from a recent feature article, ‘Gloster's Way: get in first’, and his PhD Thesis.
Kabi Kabi family elder Uncle Tais K’Reala Randanpi aka Les MucKan runs First Nations tours on a beautiful property on the ridge of Buderim - check out this short introduction produced by Channel 7 last week.
Spending a morning walking...
Dusk had well and truly set in as 70 or so protestors milled outside the council chambers. They waved placards showing they were demonstrating against changes to aircraft flight paths which they claimed would affect the peaceful solitude of their lives.
Mayor Cr Tony Wellington is on leave and Noosa Council’s meetings (open and secret) have temporarily ground to a halt, so I thought I might look at how our two local newspapers, Noosa Today and Noosa News, reported activities...
The common consensus is that COVID will be around for years to come, so Rod Ritchie believes it's time to take a reality check. Rod outlines how the new normal will impact residents, businesses and tourism in general as we start living with COVID.
At the Monday 17 September general meeting of Noosa Council, the public gallery was crowded with three members of the public, including me. At the media table were Peter Gardiner (Noosa News), who left halfway, and Margaret Maccoll (Noosa...
The voice of the hinterland and the young, we thank Nathanael for both his sensible answers to our questions and his ongoing service to our community.
