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
For those other than the LNP’s ‘true believers’, this Noosa election campaign has been an abject failure, in many respects worse than their last abject failure four years ago. Even with a relatively high profile candidate, ex-mayor Clare Stewart, and
We’ve all now had a week or so to reflect on the Queensland State Election, and a campaign that the longer it went on, the more it became obvious that the LNP wanted to win Noosa at all costs. So
It seems like Noosa may have dodged a bullet as far as high-rise developments go. Queensland Labor appeared to be committed to ploughing ahead with their State Facilitated Developments (SFD) for Noosa, one in Tewantin and the other in Noosa
(This story has been updated to reflect that some businesses mentioned in an earlier version are neighbouring but not directly impacted by the development application.) “Local planning decisions need to be made in Noosa, not Brisbane.” That’s the main takeaway
The polls show that a change of government in Queensland next month is all but certain. Will Noosa’s lone Independent Sandy Bolton hang on, or will ex-Mayor Clare Stewart be swept in on the rising LNP tide? If you get
As Noosa’s voters navigate the gauntlet of leaflet-waving foot soldiers at polling centres, it’s likely that one of the how-to-vote cards shoved in their face will be held by someone in a grey shirt from the Noosa Boating Fishing Alliance.
Noosa Residents Against Unregistered Short-Term Accommodation (NRAUSTA) asked candidates in this month’s council election for Yes or No answers to five simple questions. The group wanted to understand each candidate’s attitude to Short-Term Accommodation (STA) and to use traffic lights
In the sport of Queensland politics, Noosa is a bit like some Olympic water polo games you might have seen on TV. Hands waving and heads bobbing calmly on the surface. Just beneath the waves…kicking, gouging and blood in the
To the best of my knowledge, I don’t know any of the candidates in next month’s Noosa Council election. Never met them. Never rubbed shoulders. Never knowingly broke bread or clinked glasses with them. Indeed, the wannabe politicians are probably
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
For those other than the LNP’s ‘true believers’, this Noosa election campaign has been an abject failure, in many respects worse than their last abject failure four years ago. Even with a relatively high profile candidate, ex-mayor Clare Stewart, and
We’ve all now had a week or so to reflect on the Queensland State Election, and a campaign that the longer it went on, the more it became obvious that the LNP wanted to win Noosa at all costs. So
It seems like Noosa may have dodged a bullet as far as high-rise developments go. Queensland Labor appeared to be committed to ploughing ahead with their State Facilitated Developments (SFD) for Noosa, one in Tewantin and the other in Noosa
(This story has been updated to reflect that some businesses mentioned in an earlier version are neighbouring but not directly impacted by the development application.) “Local planning decisions need to be made in Noosa, not Brisbane.” That’s the main takeaway
The polls show that a change of government in Queensland next month is all but certain. Will Noosa’s lone Independent Sandy Bolton hang on, or will ex-Mayor Clare Stewart be swept in on the rising LNP tide? If you get
As Noosa’s voters navigate the gauntlet of leaflet-waving foot soldiers at polling centres, it’s likely that one of the how-to-vote cards shoved in their face will be held by someone in a grey shirt from the Noosa Boating Fishing Alliance.
Noosa Residents Against Unregistered Short-Term Accommodation (NRAUSTA) asked candidates in this month’s council election for Yes or No answers to five simple questions. The group wanted to understand each candidate’s attitude to Short-Term Accommodation (STA) and to use traffic lights
In the sport of Queensland politics, Noosa is a bit like some Olympic water polo games you might have seen on TV. Hands waving and heads bobbing calmly on the surface. Just beneath the waves…kicking, gouging and blood in the
To the best of my knowledge, I don’t know any of the candidates in next month’s Noosa Council election. Never met them. Never rubbed shoulders. Never knowingly broke bread or clinked glasses with them. Indeed, the wannabe politicians are probably