The expansion of the runway is to take larger aircraft, especially those from international destinations which currently fly into Brisbane. Most people think this is okay, since there aren't, and likely won't be for a while, any international flights.
Cycling as a means of transport in Noosa is fun. We have some wonderful bike lanes. Unfortunately there are big gaps and missing links. Noosa residents are being invited to collaborate on a grassroots project to help make cycling the number one choice of transport for Noosa residents.
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?
In 2016, Chinese investment in Australia’s agricultural sector skyrocketed from $300 million to $1 billion – an unprecedented investment boom. John Wood asks what this could mean for Noosa's farmland.
This is a submission by Leigh McCready to the Draft Noosa Plan which are said to have been submitted by around 140 supporters.
The Lobb Report about Noosa Council's Ordinary Meeting of Thursday 21 March 2019 - is this the end of cockatoos in Sunrise and lifesavers at Peregian?
A rare Mayoral Minute is called recommending that council purchase for $1.7 million the old TAFE college site closed by the state government in 2014 after eight years operation. It consists of four now decrepit buildings on 11.4 hectares of land in Tewantin. John Lobb looks at the pros and the cons and what it could mean for the Noosa community.
Crawling out of our festive hibernation we bravely face up to the year 2020. Council elections are looming large and campaigns have fired up. Open Noosa had some recurring topics we, the editors obviously feel passionate about. Alas we prepared some questions to candidates.
With the Queensland state election a few days away, who do we vote for? For Desiré the answer is simple: Leave the big parties behind. They are no longer in it for the people. They are failing us on so many levels, and by keeping them in power we are contributing to the problem, supporting a system of growing inequality and a game that is stacked against us. Instead, be independent and vote for independent candidates so we can change the dodgy system.
Keith Jackson uses the 40th anniversary of radio station 2SER-FM, where he was founding manager and first met Tony Wellington, to reflect on his coming to Noosa, his association with the man who is now mayor and the challenges this posed as he came to terms with the politics of the place.
As a survivor of a bush fire event a local grandmother decided to dig deeper to find out what exactly would happen should a fire break out in the Sunrise Beach area. What she found left her extremely concerned, especially taking into account the addition of 500 elderly residents once the Blue Care development goes ahead.
With the mass shooting of innocent Muslims at a mosque in New Zealand closely followed by the expose of One Nation’s efforts to water down Australia’s gun laws, Desiré reflects on her childhood growing up in a trigger happy society.
“If a tree falls in a forest and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound?” And if a Council meeting falls on a Friday and nobody hears it, does it make a sound? With only four views on the latest Council meeting, Ingrid believes the missing piece in the council transparency jigsaw puzzle is just letting people know when and where to find it.
Very occasionally Noosa Council gets into the hinterland and convenes a meeting at one of the pretty townships that are scattered around the rural areas of the shire. Such was the case for the last ordinary meeting which was held on a lovely evening at former timber town Pomona.
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.
The first three years of the 'Bring back the fish' project were beset with delays and the University of the Sunshine Coast scientists deployed to it were not able to do much (or anything) by way of evaluating its effectiveness - it seemed to have been decided the university’s services would no longer be required.
Tiny Houses On Wheels (or “THOWs”), naturally lead to increased social connectivity between people by the nature of their size, design and usage, as
well as being more sustainable in terms of minimalism and promoting the practice of sharing resources. LET’S START AT THE VERY BEGINNING
I love a good playground. My daughters and I have 'tested' many great ones in Germany, the UK and in Australia.
When I read that $5 Million of public funding had been earmarked for a new playground in Cooroy I...
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.
After the slow and painful countdown courtesy of the Electoral Commission amidst the outbreak of a global pandemic, Noosa elected Clare Stewart as its first female mayor and welcomed two other females to the historically male dominated chamber table.
At its special budget meeting in June, Noosa Council voted to absorb what used to be the Tourism and Economic Levy into its general rates and took on what was previously Tourism Noosa's responsibility for 'destination management'. In this article, Ingrid Jackson explores what role groups of unelected people played in this and asks whether Noosa Council may become dependent on such people regarding how to proceed.
