Across Australia a high-stakes political arm wrestle has been playing out over protecting our children from the flood of TV and online gambling ads. Here in Noosa, and across our coastline, there’s a parallel problem that’s even more deeply embedded, a toxic and shameful problem that’s right in front of us, if we care to look.
Koala rescuers have noticed a steep increase in callouts to local koalas in the past couple of years, which suggests that numbers are holding, if not actually increasing, across the shire. And if one extrapolates the density discovered in Yurol and Ringtail to other known koala habitat in Noosa, we are talking about potentially thousands of koalas already surviving, reproducing, and living the Noosa dream.
Look north from Noosa Main Beach and the Cooloola section of The Great Sandy National Park stretches away to the horizon. More than just a wonderful stretch of coastline, it is also a geological marvel: part of the largest vegetated dune system on the planet.
When rain falls on the Cooloola Sand Mass, the blessed water freshens the foliage of the forest trees, their vines and their epiphytes, dripping through to the sandy floor or running down the bark of the tree trunks to penetrate
The following is a submission by Noosa Parks Association on Noosa Council’s draft Destination Management Plan. You can take part in the short Council survey here, Or the longer survey here. Or you can email a submission to dmp@noosa.qld.gov.au Noosa
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 to live music. It’s an issue to be grappled with in entertainment precincts everywhere, but
Noosa’s Destination Management Plan has been a long time coming. Noosa has collectively held its breath, wondering if our Council would finally acquire the courage to join with the community in taking charge of what it really means to be
Each Federal Election Noosa residents cast their vote in the knowledge that it counts for less than it should. The reason; we are jammed into the bottom of the electorate of Wide Bay – an area we have little in
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 the world at the moment, so here is some good news. Noosa Shire looks set
In the Southernmost pocket of Noosa Shire – South Peregian Beach – locals are about to become guinea pigs in an experiment that puts bikes in charge of their street and removes much of their parking. The so-called ‘Active Street’
Around the world, local residents are demonstrating against overtourism in their towns and cities. In southern Europe recently, thousands of people took to the streets waving placards, much of it coordinated by the Southern Europe Against Touristification Network. In Barcelona
Noosa’s social media feeds have been full in the last month or two of Councillors softening up the community for another budget belting. A belting is just what residents got. However, here at Noosa Matters we like to zoom out
Over recent years, many Noosa residents have found themselves living next door to short-term holiday rentals. While some are well-managed, others have brought a steady stream of noise, late-night disturbances, parking issues, and a general loss of residential amenity. Understandably,
As Noosa Council slowly and painfully advances its proposed Destination Management Plan (DMP), residents are voicing a clear and united message: sustainable tourism must go hand-in-hand with policies that protect local character, enhance liveability, and put the needs of the
Across Australia a high-stakes political arm wrestle has been playing out over protecting our children from the flood of TV and online gambling ads. Here in Noosa, and across our coastline, there’s a parallel problem that’s even more deeply embedded, a toxic and shameful problem that’s right in front of us, if we care to look.
Koala rescuers have noticed a steep increase in callouts to local koalas in the past couple of years, which suggests that numbers are holding, if not actually increasing, across the shire. And if one extrapolates the density discovered in Yurol and Ringtail to other known koala habitat in Noosa, we are talking about potentially thousands of koalas already surviving, reproducing, and living the Noosa dream.
Look north from Noosa Main Beach and the Cooloola section of The Great Sandy National Park stretches away to the horizon. More than just a wonderful stretch of coastline, it is also a geological marvel: part of the largest vegetated dune system on the planet.
When rain falls on the Cooloola Sand Mass, the blessed water freshens the foliage of the forest trees, their vines and their epiphytes, dripping through to the sandy floor or running down the bark of the tree trunks to penetrate
The following is a submission by Noosa Parks Association on Noosa Council’s draft Destination Management Plan. You can take part in the short Council survey here, Or the longer survey here. Or you can email a submission to dmp@noosa.qld.gov.au Noosa
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 to live music. It’s an issue to be grappled with in entertainment precincts everywhere, but
Noosa’s Destination Management Plan has been a long time coming. Noosa has collectively held its breath, wondering if our Council would finally acquire the courage to join with the community in taking charge of what it really means to be
Each Federal Election Noosa residents cast their vote in the knowledge that it counts for less than it should. The reason; we are jammed into the bottom of the electorate of Wide Bay – an area we have little in
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 the world at the moment, so here is some good news. Noosa Shire looks set
In the Southernmost pocket of Noosa Shire – South Peregian Beach – locals are about to become guinea pigs in an experiment that puts bikes in charge of their street and removes much of their parking. The so-called ‘Active Street’
Around the world, local residents are demonstrating against overtourism in their towns and cities. In southern Europe recently, thousands of people took to the streets waving placards, much of it coordinated by the Southern Europe Against Touristification Network. In Barcelona
Noosa’s social media feeds have been full in the last month or two of Councillors softening up the community for another budget belting. A belting is just what residents got. However, here at Noosa Matters we like to zoom out
Over recent years, many Noosa residents have found themselves living next door to short-term holiday rentals. While some are well-managed, others have brought a steady stream of noise, late-night disturbances, parking issues, and a general loss of residential amenity. Understandably,
As Noosa Council slowly and painfully advances its proposed Destination Management Plan (DMP), residents are voicing a clear and united message: sustainable tourism must go hand-in-hand with policies that protect local character, enhance liveability, and put the needs of the