Behind those glossy pictures of buckets of prawns on the deck overlooking our sparkling Laguna Bay, there’s a deeper, darker side to our coast’s highest profile club. Noosa Heads Surf Club has seen a long overdue management shakeup just under
Noosa Council and its mates at Tourism Noosa may be quietly smirking after the deal they pulled off this month in which the Tourism body got a little less public money – now $2-million to be precise – for doing
There is growing Noosa community anger that our council is asleep at the wheel, failing to future-proof Noosa Shire from over-crowding and over-tourism. Last year nearly 50% of visitors to Noosa Shire were day-trippers, but they generated only 10% of
It’s impossible to set key performance indicators (KPIs) for Tourism Noosa when the primary informing document has not yet been written. And the rush to reduce funding to the tourism body could cost jobs. These are just two of the
In 2020, Clare Stewart was elected as Noosa mayor with a promise to make the council more transparent. Using confidential items of council meetings as a benchmark, Noosa Council became significantly less transparent under her term of office, and that
Noosa Shire enjoys a constant kite festival with these wonderful birds of prey in evidence right across the shire. The term kite reportedly hails from an Old English onomatopoeic word that imitates the call notes of certain European raptors. Of
The SS Noosa Council is drifting dangerously at the moment with a crew that’s unhappy, bordering on mutinous. It’s not quite time to launch the lifeboats, but this little ship definitely requires stabilising. The recent shock decision by the council
Behind those glossy pictures of buckets of prawns on the deck overlooking our sparkling Laguna Bay, there’s a deeper, darker side to our coast’s highest profile club. Noosa Heads Surf Club has seen a long overdue management shakeup just under
Noosa Council and its mates at Tourism Noosa may be quietly smirking after the deal they pulled off this month in which the Tourism body got a little less public money – now $2-million to be precise – for doing
There is growing Noosa community anger that our council is asleep at the wheel, failing to future-proof Noosa Shire from over-crowding and over-tourism. Last year nearly 50% of visitors to Noosa Shire were day-trippers, but they generated only 10% of
It’s impossible to set key performance indicators (KPIs) for Tourism Noosa when the primary informing document has not yet been written. And the rush to reduce funding to the tourism body could cost jobs. These are just two of the
In 2020, Clare Stewart was elected as Noosa mayor with a promise to make the council more transparent. Using confidential items of council meetings as a benchmark, Noosa Council became significantly less transparent under her term of office, and that
Noosa Shire enjoys a constant kite festival with these wonderful birds of prey in evidence right across the shire. The term kite reportedly hails from an Old English onomatopoeic word that imitates the call notes of certain European raptors. Of
The SS Noosa Council is drifting dangerously at the moment with a crew that’s unhappy, bordering on mutinous. It’s not quite time to launch the lifeboats, but this little ship definitely requires stabilising. The recent shock decision by the council