How do you kill a town? With apathy, self-interest, bad planning plus a heavy-hitting developer with very deep pockets. When I was elected to the amalgamated Sunshine Coast Council in 2012, the Cooroy Chamber of Commerce were seeking to increase
Imagine our Noosa River has a giant dam built across it. Not a concrete dam, but one just as solid…built of bureaucracy, indecision and stagnation. This dam prevents us from fixing the river’s worsening problems. It prevents Noosa Council from
Beneath the ‘business as usual’ surface, Noosa is paddling hard right now as it fights to stay afloat in a genuinely existential battle. This is not just about saving Noosa’s notion of a ‘population cap’…a size we can sustainably carry.
If you have young children or grandchildren, you may have been introduced to the episode of Thomas and Friends titled “Too many fire engines”. I am quietly suspicious that this episode may have been written right here in Noosa.
How do you kill a town? With apathy, self-interest, bad planning plus a heavy-hitting developer with very deep pockets. When I was elected to the amalgamated Sunshine Coast Council in 2012, the Cooroy Chamber of Commerce were seeking to increase
Imagine our Noosa River has a giant dam built across it. Not a concrete dam, but one just as solid…built of bureaucracy, indecision and stagnation. This dam prevents us from fixing the river’s worsening problems. It prevents Noosa Council from
Beneath the ‘business as usual’ surface, Noosa is paddling hard right now as it fights to stay afloat in a genuinely existential battle. This is not just about saving Noosa’s notion of a ‘population cap’…a size we can sustainably carry.
If you have young children or grandchildren, you may have been introduced to the episode of Thomas and Friends titled “Too many fire engines”. I am quietly suspicious that this episode may have been written right here in Noosa.