The Peregian community has been deeply affected by fighting about different visions for it's surf club. Here are some fast, furious and sober notes taken by special correspondent Alex Murray at the Peregian Beach Surf Club community meeting on...
Adventure takes many forms. For some it must involve mountains or wrestling bears, for others it comes from shopping at a different supermarket chain.
I count myself in neither camp. Instead I sit somewhere between. This is in part because...
On the back of Cr Ingrid Jackson's attempt for more transparency by making General Committee minutes public, Noosa Council has quietly attempted, and failed, in its bid to stifle democratic processes by having a parliamentary citizens e-petition against a...
Michael Donovan's letter to the editor calls the Noosa Biosphere Reserve Foundation a secretive, opaque and mystery organisation of Frankenstein character. And while many of us have tried to help it turns out that, like a bad blind date, the ‘calls’ are not returned.
On Thursday 19 April, Councillor Ingrid Jackson put a transparency motion before Noosa Council. As she explained on her own facebook page:
"My motion was simple: that General Committee meeting minutes be made public. That’s the meeting where the most significant or...
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.
I went to a community meeting at the Waterfront Restaurant earlier this week. The meeting was the result of a little Facebook ‘shirtfronting’ incident a couple of weeks ago, when Brian Stockwell invited the community to join him for...
Have you ever stopped to think about how the national parks in our region came to be designated? Their creation was often the result of hard work and intensive campaigning.
How much is that doggie in the window? The one with the waggly tail
How much is that doggie in the window? I do hope that doggie's for sale.
Australia has one of the highest rates of pet ownership in the...
I agree with Andrew Anderson (Noosa Today 23/3/2018) about the need for apology and meaningful remedy not to be reserved for Trevor Clarey alone. But it is neither fair nor helpful to fault Trevor for correcting misleading claims about...
Keith Jackson
If bowls is a metaphor for life – and for Cooroibah-based Ian ‘Shoey’ Schuback OAM, four times world bowls champion and high performance coach, bowls is at least that – then ‘Bowls Biased + Uncensored’ is its handbook.
‘Shoey’...
Integrity, defined as the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles, is what people expect of a leader and it’s worth taking a closer look at whether the people of Noosa are getting this from their leaders.
The...
