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Arts Alive in Noosa Noosa Alive will this year celebrate 20 years of delivering arts and culture to the region. Across 10 days, the festival will showcase the best in music, theatre, art, film books and food and return of the Long Lunch. Story page 7
Noosa Alive’s Paris Underground is a feast for the senses.
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Doonella on track By Phil Jarratt
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The campaign to restore a community access track around the northern shore of Lake Doonella is back on track, following the release of a Noosa Council survey confirming property boundaries. As reported by Noosa Today last August, the lake shore access track between Werin Street and Moorindil Street, Tewantin, was temporarily closed by Council pending a boundaries’ survey following a dispute between foreshore
property owners and a residents’ action group now known as Lake Access and Conservation Community (LACC). LACC spokesman Jessica Lewis said the group had sought the results of the survey through an application under the Right to Information Act, which was granted last week. “The good news is that it confirms what we always knew was community land,” Ms Lewis said. Back in August 2021, the access dispute be-
tween neighbours reached flashpoint, as Noosa Today reported: “They came in their dozens, an hour or so before sunset, all with masks, some with dogs or children, to defend their right to public space, however small it might seem to the outside world. “Just before dark they were joined by Councillors Amelia Lorentson and Joe Jurisevic who listened to the reasoned pleas to restore vegetation and provide access for all to this special pocket of Tewantin. “Cr Lorentson later told Noosa Today:
‘When a community cares, I care. I love the collaborative attitude of this residents’ group. They’re not asking for a handout, they’re asking us to help them clean up the wetlands and preserve this precious asset, just as we’ve done elsewhere in the Shire.’ Fortunately, there was ultimately a tacit agreement to calm down and let council sort out the matter, and the first step in that process was the boundaries’ survey. Continued page 3