There’s a sense of cautious optimism about Noosa after a rancorous election campaign that this end of the Sunshine Coast is becoming infamous for. Optimism, that is, if you discount some of the bitterness shown by one or two candidates
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
It’s a tough gig. And probably one that rookie council candidates can never fully be ready for. Running for council might look easy, but ask any of the newbies at last Thursday’s Meet the Candidates (MTC) night at Cooroy Memorial
It’s one of these perennial local government election arguments: to ‘flute or not to ‘flute. That is the question. In other words, should prospective candidates use corflutes on the roadsides for self-promotion? Or are they a waste of time, a
Noosa Council has voted to send a strong reminder to the community that it is still focused on, and engaged in, environmental protection of Noosa River, despite recent events and decisions. Following a decision to delay further action on the
The disintegration of cooperative, effective governance in this term of a deeply fractured Noosa Council has been disturbing to witness. Never more so than during what passed for a Council “ordinary’ meeting in October; a meeting in which any attempt
A town planning scheme cannot predict the future. And by the time the 10-year-spanning document is written, let alone endorsed, elements of it can often already be out of date. The Noosa Plan is a statement outlining uses of land
If there is a future for popular Cooroy coffee outlet Bus Stop Espresso, it won’t be at its current site. The Mary River Rd business, about 2km outside Cooroy, was described as a victim of its own success at Noosa
There’s a sense of cautious optimism about Noosa after a rancorous election campaign that this end of the Sunshine Coast is becoming infamous for. Optimism, that is, if you discount some of the bitterness shown by one or two candidates
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
It’s a tough gig. And probably one that rookie council candidates can never fully be ready for. Running for council might look easy, but ask any of the newbies at last Thursday’s Meet the Candidates (MTC) night at Cooroy Memorial
It’s one of these perennial local government election arguments: to ‘flute or not to ‘flute. That is the question. In other words, should prospective candidates use corflutes on the roadsides for self-promotion? Or are they a waste of time, a
Noosa Council has voted to send a strong reminder to the community that it is still focused on, and engaged in, environmental protection of Noosa River, despite recent events and decisions. Following a decision to delay further action on the
The disintegration of cooperative, effective governance in this term of a deeply fractured Noosa Council has been disturbing to witness. Never more so than during what passed for a Council “ordinary’ meeting in October; a meeting in which any attempt
A town planning scheme cannot predict the future. And by the time the 10-year-spanning document is written, let alone endorsed, elements of it can often already be out of date. The Noosa Plan is a statement outlining uses of land
If there is a future for popular Cooroy coffee outlet Bus Stop Espresso, it won’t be at its current site. The Mary River Rd business, about 2km outside Cooroy, was described as a victim of its own success at Noosa