Many of us making up the Sunrise Beach community have been taken by surprise. Residents, schools and visiting bird and Wallum enthusiasts have had little or no idea that this development was imminent. This is an update on what is currently happening to hopefully save our glossies and find good outcomes for all.
Cr. Ingrid Jackson has worked hard for the community to successfully set council onto a path of greater transparency and accountability. An attempt to derail her failed. Allegations of misconduct against her by two of her fellow councillors have been found to be frivolous and lacking substance. This is her statement.
Staying on the topic of the Sunrise Aged Care development, Bettina and Desiré ponders the possibilities of WIMBYism (Welcome In My Back Yard). A vision to minimise the destructive impact on our precious environment and focus on the multiple benefits that could flow from a more environmentally conscious design.
NIMBYism has got a bad reputation, and rightly so. In this post, Desi makes the case for NIMBYism and a community's rights to stand up for NO EXTINCTIONS in our back yards. Save our Sunrise Glossies!
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...
In 2004 Noosa Council sold two big blocks of bushland to Blue Care. Development approval was given for a massive aged care facility adjacent to what is now Sunrise Shops and the Uniting Church building.
There was only one item of significance at Noosa Council’s ordinary meeting last Thursday (20 September) and that was a motion from Cr Ingrid Jackson, strongly supported by Cr Jess Glascow, to introduce the live streaming of all public...
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...
There are plenty ideas floating around on the best use of the old TAFE site in Tewantin. I say bring back the TAFE, and here's why...
Most ratepayers would never know this (or even be interested if they did know) but Noosa Council has a monthly meeting cycle which includes four meetings, sometimes five, that are open to the public.
In a nail-biting preliminary final at Caloundra Football Club last weekend, the two Noosa U13 girls’ teams went head to head in a terrific show of skill and sportsmanship. The teams had ended up numbers three and four on the ladder - a great outcome for Noosa Lions Football Club with two such strong teams in one age group.
I’m now well into my regular reporting of Noosa Council meetings as I seek to provide a critical and constructive rather than some councillors’ sycophantic view of our local governing body. My enduring hope is that this critique may...
We are living in a critical time for the planet and ourselves; a time when we have to better understand our environment and where politicians have to show astuteness and courage. But is Noosa Council trapped in a seemingly endless discussion and planning cycle with neither resources nor commitment to make things better for residents?
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.
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
Noosa Council is building a $2.5m playground in a rural village where old people outnumber the young nearly 3:1.
This week I’m taking a good hard look at a special Noosa Council meeting on Friday 6 July, the primary aim of which was to formally adopt the 2018-19 budget and give the CEO and Corporate Services Manager an...
By Cr Ingrid Jackson. An informed community is a more effective community and disclosure, transparency and accountability matter.
What is the problem with taking and publishing informative minutes of all official council meetings? I'd argue, that we are in danger of becoming 'a parish of Dibley' rather than the progressive shire many of us want.
By John Digby Lobb. Those who know me from my occasional disruptions to your life in the columns of the local media will understand that I live just outside the Noosa Council boundaries. But, because I feel this is my community of interest, I’m a regular attender at Council meetings – and have been for many years.
A recent ABC Sunshine Coast Facebook post featuring a slideshow of councillors and mayors elected across the Sunshine Coast, Noosa and Gympie councils asked why just four out of 40 representatives were female. The post and a discussion with her teenage daughter made Desiré ponder the reasons why...
