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- Alan Lander
As anyone in Noosa Junction can tell you, there’s a precarious and evolving balance between residents and those who head there to socialise and listen
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- Tony Wellington
The following appeared in a recent Noosa Parks Association newsletter as a report from NPA President Tony Wellington. Gosh knows there’s enough bad news in
...ANALYSIS
LATEST
NOOSA DECIDES
2024
Ripples
PLANNING
The following is a submission by Noosa Parks Association on Noosa Council’s draft Destination Management Plan. You can take part...
- Tony Wellington
Noosa’s Destination Management Plan has been a long time coming. Noosa has collectively held its breath, wondering if our Council...
- Ric Jay
In the Southernmost pocket of Noosa Shire – South Peregian Beach – locals are about to become guinea pigs in...
- The inside view
Over recent years, many Noosa residents have found themselves living next door to short-term holiday rentals. While some are well-managed,...
- Fiona Jacobs
As Noosa Council slowly and painfully advances its proposed Destination Management Plan (DMP), residents are voicing a clear and united...
- Barry Cotterell
It’s not often the ABC gets it quite this wrong. The broadcaster’s coverage of a contentious development application in Tewantin...
- Ric Jay
ENVIRONMENT
The following appeared in a recent Noosa Parks Association newsletter as a report from NPA President Tony Wellington. Gosh knows...
- Tony Wellington
There is growing Noosa community anger that our council is asleep at the wheel, failing to future-proof Noosa Shire from...
- Michael Gloster
It was around the time Noosa Council was coming back into its own after some five years absorbed into Sunshine...
- Alan Lander
How long must Noosa wait for effective, coordinated action to tidy up the river that is our most precious asset?...
- Michael Gloster
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
COUNCIL
Noosa’s social media feeds have been full in the last month or two of Councillors softening up the community for...
- Noel Playford
Noosa Council and its mates at Tourism Noosa may be quietly smirking after the deal they pulled off this month...
- John Hare
It’s impossible to set key performance indicators (KPIs) for Tourism Noosa when the primary informing document has not yet been...
- Alan Lander
In 2020, Clare Stewart was elected as Noosa mayor with a promise to make the council more transparent. Using confidential...
- The inside view
The SS Noosa Council is drifting dangerously at the moment with a crew that’s unhappy, bordering on mutinous. It’s not...
- Narelle Reid
“A little less conversation, a little more action, please.” That Elvis song should be playing on high rotation in our...
- Barry Cotterell
LIFESTYLE
As anyone in Noosa Junction can tell you, there’s a precarious and evolving balance between residents and those who head...
- Alan Lander
Around the world, local residents are demonstrating against overtourism in their towns and cities. In southern Europe recently, thousands of...
- Tony Wellington
Over recent years, many Noosa residents have found themselves living next door to short-term holiday rentals. While some are well-managed,...
- Fiona Jacobs
Noosa residents expecting some reprieve from the ever-increasing visitor numbers “invading” the Shire will be especially disappointed in the State...
- John Hare
Behind those glossy pictures of buckets of prawns on the deck overlooking our sparkling Laguna Bay, there’s a deeper, darker...
- Ric Jay
Noosa Shire has reached a crucial inflexion point that can be characterised as resident amenity versus tourism. The push-back by...
- Tony Wellington
WILD
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