Noosa Today - 20th October 2023

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Friday, 20 October, 2023

INSPECT SATURDAY 2 – 3PM 26 MCANALLY DR, SUNSHINE BEACH

Second part series into council’s DMP

Community celebrates new protections

Supa Oldies ready for action

32-page liftout Property Guide

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Linedancing success

Noosa’s very own Sunny Coasters Linedancing group was filled with joy on Friday.

Picture: ALISON TAYLOR - LENSART

The sky was blue and the pier was pink as Noosa’s very own Sunny Coasters Linedancing group danced their way into the club’s most significant undertaking to date, a fundraiser for ‘Do it for Cancer’ (breast cancer). What a spectacular sight it was to see at the Noosa Marina on Friday 13 October, as the dancers moved to the groove in support of this important event. Adding to the uplifting mood of the day were the people walking on the bridge who stopped to watch, the crowds at the marina and the people on passing boats clapping and cheering. “However,” as said by Sue Ravenscroft, “the best part of the day was the financial outcome of the fundraiser.“ Continued page 8

Deadlock to end By Phil Jarratt Well after midnight on a beautiful, starlit and deserted crescent of beach on Mexico’s Pacific Coast, just 40 minutes up the coast from Zihuatanejo, made famous as the place Andy Dufresne found peace in the final scenes of the brilliant 1994 film The Shawshank Redemption, a man walks alone into the moon shadow of a thatch-roof palapa on the sand, opens a laptop and tries to connect to Microsoft Teams, calling softly into the night: “Can you

hear me, it’s Tom?” After more than six years of consultation, planning, drafting, consulting again and again, redrafting and finally being presented to Noosa Council, only to be deferred for – wait for it – more consulting, it is supremely ironic that the future of the long-awaited Noosa River Catchment Management Plan might well come down next week to the quality of an internet connection in faraway La Saladita. “I hope they keep their generators running all night,”

jokes Cr Brian Stockwell, but the serious fact of the matter is that Cr Tom Wegener’s remote vote, to be called in from a long-planned family surfing holiday, will almost certainly break the deadlock and see the river plan adopted by council, ending a month of community agitation, claims and counter-claims, petitions and some absurd misinformation peddled on social media. The fun began at council’s general committee meeting on 18 September when Cr Amelia

Lorentson moved a procedural motion “that item 6.1 Noosa River Catchment Management Plan be deferred to the next round of meetings to allow Councillors and other stakeholders an opportunity to consider the details and implications of the draft Noosa River Catchment Plan and provide feedback.” Speaking to her motion, Cr Lorentson said the deferral was needed “to enable time for feedback from stakeholders, questions to be answered and for a workshop for councillors. Continued page 6

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