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Cooran State School students wearing their new house colours. From left, Haidee Polzin, Grace Hehir, Mayumi Francis and Milly Staplehurst.
Fire and water: a cultural history COORAN State School students, teachers and parents were immersed in Australian Indigenous Culture recently, as part of a full day of NAIDOC celebrations. See page 5 for full story.
Time to pay up By JONATHON HOWARD COOLUM Beach resident Dr Richard Koerner says Noosa Council deserves every penny of the $20 million it requested from the Sunshine Coast Council (SCC) recently.
The request was made by Mayor Noel Playford last week and sent shockwaves through the community, with residents fearing future rate rises and suspicion resurfacing around the total costs of de-amalgamation. Dr Koerner holds a PHD in stra-
tegic management, was a former member of the Maroochy Waters Services Advisory board and a former treasurer of the Coolum Residents Association. He has crunched the numbers and said the true cost of amalgamation in 2008 was still be-
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ing felt, while the cost of last year’s de-amalgamation was only “modest”. “Mayor Noel Playford is absolutely right about SCC trying to rip-off the Noosa Council $20 million – due to unfinished business including the amalgamation in 2008,” Dr Koerner said.
“Those infrastructure contributions collected by the SCC from the developers building in Noosa since amalgamation must be spent in Noosa and must be transferred back,” Dr Koerner said. Continued page 11
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Issue 120 | Thursday, 21 August, 2014