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As we begin debating the so-called Destination Management Plan, which arguably should be called the Resident Liveability Plan, I want to challenge some long-held assumptions. 

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As our not-so-new Noosa Council approaches its first full year in March, the settling in period is over. The time for excuses is past.  2025

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While our silly season headlines have leapt on those cabanas that block our beaches, here in Noosa there’s a far...

In short; Noosa Council has a long history of planning and consulting the community to get the plans right. Unfortunately,...

As we begin debating the so-called Destination Management Plan, which arguably should be called the Resident Liveability Plan, I want...

The aesthetic look and feel of Noosa could be permanently destroyed and the Noosa planning scheme effectively neutered if two...

A high-stakes game of Monopoly that could lead to Noosa becoming just another high-rise hotspot like Maroochydore or Surfers Paradise is well underway. The game kicked off some weeks ago when a local...

A development  application lodged more than four years ago for a commercial car wash in Cooroy has now been approved....

While our silly season headlines have leapt on those cabanas that block our beaches, here in Noosa there’s a far...

The Yurol /Ringtail project is, quite simply, the most significant environmental achievement I will see in my lifetime.   Such is...

Tourists will willingly queue in their vehicles for lengthy periods on Noosa Parade and Noosa Drive, then compete for limited...

You probably wouldn’t spend 5, 10 or 20 million dollars on a house with broken windows. But how about one...

If you go walking in the Noosa National Park to the west of David Low Way, you will be wandering...

With this statement by Noosa Parks Association’s president Darlene Gower, NPA this week called for a decisive end to further...

The absence of any serious discussion about performance reporting at council’s November Ordinary meeting, or on the Audit Committee reports...

As our not-so-new Noosa Council approaches its first full year in March, the settling in period is over. The time...

If you’re a large, predatory gambling business desperate to ‘socially wash’ some of the stink off your reputation, here’s an...

In case you haven’t noticed, it’s been raining in Noosa. A lot. But what I’ve been more concerned about is...

To understand some of the big issues facing Noosa Council right now, we need to go back just a little...

Above all else, the reason Noosa has achieved a rare – albeit precarious – balance between humans and nature is...

Arguably the biggest issue currently facing Noosa Shire is overtourism. So-called “destination management” is really about how Noosa can survive...

Frank Wilkie’s supporters saw his convincing election win last March as the beginning of the end of Noosa’s Short Term...

As we begin debating the so-called Destination Management Plan, which arguably should be called the Resident Liveability Plan, I want...

Across Australia a high-stakes political arm wrestle has been playing out over protecting our children from the flood of TV...

Well, fellow citoyens, this whole foreshore fandango has Noosa natives in a right tizz. The recent rally at the tennis...

Love or hate ‘em, tourists are an omnipresent – some residents might say omnishambles – part of Noosa life. Have...

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Across Australia a high-stakes political arm wrestle has been playing out over protecting our children from the flood of TV and online gambling ads.  Here in Noosa, and across our coastline, there’s a parallel problem that’s even more deeply embedded, a toxic and shameful problem that’s right in front of us, if we care to look.
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