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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?

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.

A few months in from the introduction of the Containers for Change, the scheme appears to be failing on a number of fronts from an environmental sustainability perspective. The Queensland Government’s draft Waste Management and Resource Recovery Strategy are now open for public submissions, so make your voice heard to ensure we get a better system.

In this column regular contributor John Lobb presents the highlights from two Noosa Council meetings held on Tuesday 12 February - the Planning & Environment Committee and the Services & Organisation Committee.

Noosa North Shore President Nick Hluszko ponders the ever changing Noosa River and why yabbies have taken up residence in their millions in areas where sea grasses once were.

Last week we met with representatives from Uniting Care / Blue Care to deliver our petition, comments and letters of support. We now turn our efforts back to you Noosa Council. We would like you to support a rethink of the development to make it a biosphere worthy aged care facility.

On 22 January 2019 Sunrise Beach locals supported by a Glossy expert sat down with Uniting Care and Blue Care representatives to discuss the...

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.

Cr Ingrid Jackson's explains her rationale for voting against agreeing in principle to funding for the Bring back the fish project without open and fair processes.

You might have noticed - and even supported - Glossy Team Sunrise (GTS), established to save the Glossy Black Cockatoo habitat at Sunrise from destruction. As members of the team leading this advocacy and action, we have been truly humbled by the support and comments from the wider community. But, unfortunately, some of our supporters might have been duped by Change.org.

Much has happened in the background at Glossy Team Sunrise with letters of support from key environmental groups and the launch of an online change.org petition asking Blue Care to protect and retain as much of the native flora and fauna as possible.

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.

The Noosa Council general committee meeting of Monday 17 December 2018 In the chair deputy mayor Cr Frank Wilkie with mayor Cr Tony Wellington, Cr Ingrid Jackson, Cr Brian Stockwell, Cr Joe Jurisevic, Cr Frank Pardon. Apology Cr Jess Glasgow.

A festive poem by our treasured Bernadette Mac. Like Santa, we still don't know who exactly is behind that beard. Wishing you all very 'Happy Holidays' from the Editorial Team Embassy :)

Judy Barrass' response to aged care developments in Noosa suggests we look at the broader question about any development while still putting the needs of our ageing population into perspective and questioning some of the conventional wisdom.

A recent ABC Four Corners exposé of the aged care crisis in Australia has sparked a Royal Commission into the quality and safety of...

Letter to the Editor from Dr John Spencer, Noosaville in response to Mayor Tony Wellingtons letter (Noosa News November 27th) following the furore over the New Years’ Eve party to be held on public land in Noosa.

Our latest contributor as part of Glossy Team Sunrise, Leela Rottman wrote this great introduction to the Glossy Black Cockatoo.

10 years ago, in 2016, the Noosa Council introduced a new program called ZEN (Zero Emission Noosa) aiming to reduce carbon emissions and greenhouse...

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.

On Monday, 19 November Sue Davis and Bettina Walter presented at the Monday with NICA group get together to talk about the Blue Care development. The room was packed to the rafters with Tony Haslam noting that it was the biggest turn out ever - great news for the glossy cause!