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Issue 236 | Thursday, 10 November 2016
Real Estate Lifestyle Noosa’s Wee
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te Guide 10 November, 2016
Music fiesta a drawcard LOVE and respect; that’s exactly what the third annual Originals Music Festival was all about as 4000 music lovers flocked to the Coolum Soccer Grounds on Saturday 5 November. Event organiser Mark Pico said it was a great day for young and old and he was stoked the event was a sell-out for the third year in a row. Turn to page 20 for more photos from the day.
Legendary Chris Cheney leads The Living End. Photo: Paul Smith Images
Gay adoption row By Jolene Ogle MEMBER for Noosa Glen Elmes has defended his party’s attempts to vote down legislation that would allow same-sex couples to adopt children in Queensland.
The vote was held in parliament last week, with the government announcing on Wednesday (2 November) that same-sex adoption was now legal in Queensland. Mr Elmes said while the LNP did not oppose the Adoption and Other
Legislation Amendment Bill 2016 through the second reading in parliament, he said the party wanted to respect the fact there was already a long waiting list for heterosexual couples wanting to adopt. “With such a small number of
children and a large number of couples seeking to adopt, we felt the need to respect those couples currently on a long waiting list,” he said. Mr Elmes said in 2015-’16 there were only 48 adoptions finalised in Queensland, 21 of which were local
children, while hundreds of couples remain on a waiting list. But the often critised long adoption process could also be a factor in a small amount of adoptions finalising in the 2015-’16 year. Continued on page 3
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