Ric Jay

Ric Jay
A background in senior News and Current Affairs management, political reporter, ABC foreign correspondent, war correspondent, communications advisor for not-for-profits in Asia and the Pacific, communications director of the Noosa de-amalgamation campaign. Editor of Noosa Matters.

Shock early departure of Council CEO

After just 14 months in the job, Noosa Council Chief Executive Scott Waters has resigned to become the CEO at Moreton Bay Regional Council – Australia’s third largest council. The news has reverberated around a stunned Council headquarters in Tewantin.

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A place to celebrate childhood

Giant Melaleucas stand sentinel in a special place at the bottom of the Rufous Street cul-de-sac in Peregian Beach, sometimes silent, sometimes a boisterous, musical cauldron of children playing, learning and finding their place in the world. For 40 years

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Destination Noosa, but who’s driving?

Having watched Noosa Council’s EOI (Expressions of Interest) process leading to the appointment of its DMP (Destination Management Plan) PCG (project Control Group), it’s hard to see how this acronym-led process will wind up in anything other than an almighty

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Empty houses and grand promises

Despite his many achievements, Bob Hawke never managed to live down his expansive promise made in the heat of the 1987 campaign, that “By 1990, no Australian child will be living in poverty.” Here in Noosa in 2022, there are

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A toxic tide rolls in

Two days before Noosa’s Festival of Surf got underway this month, something evil began floating in on the tide. It was the morning of March 2nd, and the first pontoons spat out by the churning floodwaters of the Brisbane River

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A message carved for a coastal community

Sometimes a work of art can speak for a community and place. Overlooking Peregian Beach, the remnant of a giant, old Norfolk Pine that died after the 2019 bushfire is being reshaped as a ‘message post’ with an environmental story

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Shock early departure of Council CEO

After just 14 months in the job, Noosa Council Chief Executive Scott Waters has resigned to become the CEO at Moreton Bay Regional Council – Australia’s third largest council. The news has reverberated around a stunned Council headquarters in Tewantin.

Read More »

A place to celebrate childhood

Giant Melaleucas stand sentinel in a special place at the bottom of the Rufous Street cul-de-sac in Peregian Beach, sometimes silent, sometimes a boisterous, musical cauldron of children playing, learning and finding their place in the world. For 40 years

Read More »

Destination Noosa, but who’s driving?

Having watched Noosa Council’s EOI (Expressions of Interest) process leading to the appointment of its DMP (Destination Management Plan) PCG (project Control Group), it’s hard to see how this acronym-led process will wind up in anything other than an almighty

Read More »

Empty houses and grand promises

Despite his many achievements, Bob Hawke never managed to live down his expansive promise made in the heat of the 1987 campaign, that “By 1990, no Australian child will be living in poverty.” Here in Noosa in 2022, there are

Read More »

A toxic tide rolls in

Two days before Noosa’s Festival of Surf got underway this month, something evil began floating in on the tide. It was the morning of March 2nd, and the first pontoons spat out by the churning floodwaters of the Brisbane River

Read More »

A message carved for a coastal community

Sometimes a work of art can speak for a community and place. Overlooking Peregian Beach, the remnant of a giant, old Norfolk Pine that died after the 2019 bushfire is being reshaped as a ‘message post’ with an environmental story

Read More »