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- Tony Wellington
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.
...- Ric Jay
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...
- Michael Gloster
In short; Noosa Council has a long history of planning and consulting the community to get the plans right. Unfortunately,...
- Barry Cotterell
As we begin debating the so-called Destination Management Plan, which arguably should be called the Resident Liveability Plan, I want...
- Tony Wellington
The aesthetic look and feel of Noosa could be permanently destroyed and the Noosa planning scheme effectively neutered if two...
- Alan Lander
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...
- Terry Quinn
A development application lodged more than four years ago for a commercial car wash in Cooroy has now been approved....
- Alan Lander
While our silly season headlines have leapt on those cabanas that block our beaches, here in Noosa there’s a far...
- Michael Gloster
The Yurol /Ringtail project is, quite simply, the most significant environmental achievement I will see in my lifetime. Such is...
- Phil Moran
Tourists will willingly queue in their vehicles for lengthy periods on Noosa Parade and Noosa Drive, then compete for limited...
- Tony Wellington
You probably wouldn’t spend 5, 10 or 20 million dollars on a house with broken windows. But how about one...
- Barry Cotterell
If you go walking in the Noosa National Park to the west of David Low Way, you will be wandering...
- Tony Wellington
With this statement by Noosa Parks Association’s president Darlene Gower, NPA this week called for a decisive end to further...
- Michael Gloster
The absence of any serious discussion about performance reporting at council’s November Ordinary meeting, or on the Audit Committee reports...
- John Hare
As our not-so-new Noosa Council approaches its first full year in March, the settling in period is over. The time...
- Ric Jay
If you’re a large, predatory gambling business desperate to ‘socially wash’ some of the stink off your reputation, here’s an...
- Ric Jay
In case you haven’t noticed, it’s been raining in Noosa. A lot. But what I’ve been more concerned about is...
- Noel Playford
To understand some of the big issues facing Noosa Council right now, we need to go back just a little...
- John Hare
Above all else, the reason Noosa has achieved a rare – albeit precarious – balance between humans and nature is...
- John Hare
Arguably the biggest issue currently facing Noosa Shire is overtourism. So-called “destination management” is really about how Noosa can survive...
- Tony Wellington
Frank Wilkie’s supporters saw his convincing election win last March as the beginning of the end of Noosa’s Short Term...
- Rowland Hill
As we begin debating the so-called Destination Management Plan, which arguably should be called the Resident Liveability Plan, I want...
- Tony Wellington
- Ric Jay
Well, fellow citoyens, this whole foreshore fandango has Noosa natives in a right tizz. The recent rally at the tennis...
- Terry Quinn
Love or hate ‘em, tourists are an omnipresent – some residents might say omnishambles – part of Noosa life. Have...
- Terry Quinn