ENJOY YOUR POOL YEAR-ROUND

POOL is heated at a perfect 30 degrees.

Casual Swimmers:

Mon to Fri mornings 6.30am to 8am

Mon to Fri afternoons: 3pm to 5pm

Saturday: 7am to 10am

In warmer months hours will extend.

• $65 for 10 visit pass • $8 per casual visit

Swim Squad & LTS

Mon to Fri: 3.15pm

Saturday (only): Learn to Swim

Adult Squad Coaching available - Aqua aerobics TBC gregrogers2022@gmail.com

INTRODUCTORY courses at the following locations. First session is obligation free, and sessions continue weekly thereafter: Millwell Road Community Centre, Maroochydore

Saturday June 24, 10.30am

War Memorial Hall, Buderim

Monday June 26, 10.30am

Nambour Uniting Church Hall

Wednesday June 28, 9.00am

Eumundi State School Hall

Wednesday June 28 at 6.30pm. Pre-registration is essential. To register www.taoisttaichi.org

JOIN us every Tuesday at Ridgewood Community Hall for Pilates. This class is aimed at people who are new to Pilates or want to improve on their form. Lots of instruction is given to help you learn the form of basic mat Pilates. Every Tuesday in June, 9:15 - 10:15am at Ridgewood Community Hall, 2 Donnellys Rd, Ridgewood - cost $5

Micheala or Justin on 0449 047 746 hello@engageyourcorefitness.com

SUNDAY

MARK your calendars for the muchanticipated Pink Stumps Day, as the annual McGrath Foundation fundraiser returns to Kin Kin on Sunday, June 4. This beloved event holds a special place on the Kin Kin calendar, and this year promises to be bigger and better than ever before.

We are thrilled to announce that Jimmy and Tam, the winners of the 2020 TV show “The Block” and now proud residents of our hinterland community, will be joining us for this year’s match. Jimmy will take to the field as part of the Kin Kin team, adding excitement and star power to the event.

Don your finest pink outfit and join us at the Kin Kin Sportsground, located at 57 Main St, Kin Kin, to be part of the enthusiastic crowd cheering on their respective teams. The players themselves will be wearing pink tutus, fully embracing the spirit of the day, and they are already sharpening their batting and bowling skills in preparation for this momentous occasion.

Make no mistake, this is serious business, as the Kin Kin Community eagerly showcases their superb cricket skills against none other than Noosa Mayor Clare Stewart, Councillors, and Council staff. It will be a thrilling contest that promises entertainment, camaraderie, and fierce competition. Behind the excitement and festivities lies a cause close to our hearts. Many of us have been touched by the devastating impact of breast cancer on our loved ones. The McGrath Foundation aims to make a difference by providing specialist McGrath Breast Care Nurses who offer physical, psychological, and emotional support to individuals and their families affected by breast cancer. From diagnosis through treatment, these essential services are provided free of charge.

By attending and supporting Pink Stumps Day, you contribute to the vital funds needed to continue these services. Every dollar raised goes towards helping the McGrath Foundation place Breast Care Nurses in communities across Australia, ensuring that no one faces the challenges of breast cancer alone.

In addition to the thrilling cricket match, there will be an array of fantastic raffle prizes generously provided by our local business community. With over $500 worth of awesome prizes up for grabs, you have the chance to win something truly special while supporting this important cause.

You can purchase raffle tickets with cash or online at the following venues: Noosa Council’s main building in Pelican St Tewantin (Customer Service Level 2), Noosa and Cooroy Libraries, Noosa Leisure Centre, Noosa Aquatic Centre, The J.

Your participation and support will help us achieve our fundraising goal and make a lasting impact.

Batting opens at 1pm, right after the markets at the Kin Kin Sportsground. Don’t miss out on the magic of Pink Stumps Day and the opportunity to be part of a community coming together for an incredible cause.

For further information, please contact: Event Organiser: Anita Poteri

Phone: 0408 275 216

Fundraising Coordinator: Wanda Jardine

Phone: 0407 962 721

While navigating life our bodies hold stress in our nervous system like kinks in a hose. These blockages accumulate causing dysfunction, leading to illness and increasingly debilitating disease.

Your body is always striving to maintain it’s instinctive healing integrity … it’s time to trust it’s wisdom with this powerful technique.

PH:

Akiki

The Federal Government has now delivered its first full year Budget and there is concern that $185 billion in additional expenditure will add to inflation and put more pressure on interest rates, making it even harder for people with mortgages to balance their budgets.

The increase in wages for aged care workers is a positive step, as is the response to recommendations from the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide, which include addressing the backlog of veteran’s claims and funding suicide intervention training programs for the ex-service community.

The Budget predicts that unemployment will rise, real wages will not increase this year, and inflation will remain high. Despite the supposed energy bill relief, the Budget confirms that bills will increase by almost $500.

Unfortunately, parts of this Budget only exacerbate the rising cost of living. There is a new tax on farmers, who are being asked to pay for the biosecurity costs of imported food, and the 19 percent heavy vehicle road user charge hike over the next three years will increase transportation costs and be passed onto consumers.

One forecast in the Budget that I am particularly concerned about is the prediction that over the next five years net overseas migration will rise by 1.5 million people, placing even more strain on housing and rental accommodation, roads and infrastructure, and health and medical services. Already our roads are congested, our hospitals are full, there is already a housing shortage and rental crisis, but the Budget doesn’t detail the massive investment that will be required to service this surge in population - and without that massive investment every Australian’s living standards will fall.

The Federal Government needs to do more to attract doctors to small communities like Imbil and Pomona to ensure people have local access to GP services. I had hoped this Budget would correct Labor’s amendments to the Distribution Priority Area classification, which made it more attractive for doctors to practice in outer metropolitan areas instead of regional communities like Wide Bay. Unfortunately, there was no change to this warped policy.

Increased Medicare rebates to encourage more doctors to bulk bill children, pensioners, and other Commonwealth concession card holders has the potential to assist in improving health care affordability for some people, but the General Practitioner and medical and allied health workforce shortage in parts of Wide Bay is an ongoing issue that I, together with the Primary Health Network are continuing to work on.

After the latest disgraceful incident in Maryborough, Queenslanders understandably have had enough, including our police, when it comes to repeat youth offenders. As one of only five MPs who voted in favour of an amendment in Parliament to see mandatory one year sentencing for recidivist youth offenders convicted of stealing more than two cars, I am equally frustrated, especially with the ongoing lack of support for remote relocation or diversion sentencing.

Thank you to ‘A Current Affair’ for sharing our plight with ongoing issues of heavy haulage affecting our community. May we see an end to what is so very wrong soon.

For anyone unfamiliar, this is what happens when processes and legislation are flawed, leaving our communities devastated, with information available at Noosa 360. In amongst efforts, our office continues to fight for an Independent Environmental Protection Agency to address these failings. For those wishing to report issues direct, please contact our office for avenues including official complaints for dust pollution, haulage vehicles and quarry operations. We will also update you when there has been an outcome to Noosa Council’s court case.

In Parliament, our unrelenting advocacy continues for a review of Queensland’s committee system. If our ‘de facto’ Upper House is not fixed, we will continue to see results that fall far short of what Noosa and indeed QLD needs and expects. Ultimately, we must repair the foundation that decisions are made on. My speech on the proposed caps to local government election campaign spending included experiences from my time as a Councillor. Whilst decreases are another step in the right direction, there are concerns that the proposed cap is still too high for smaller shires such as Noosa. $30,000 is a lot of money especially for those who are not aligned to a political party and as MP’s raised, politicising local government is a backward step for QLD. This is why more than ever we need independent representatives who are focused on their community, not party stances, ideology, or career paths. Ensuring the integrity of our elections is vital, which includes fixing associated processes such as ending voter data harvesting by political parties which saw overwhelming support in our last community survey. We can make the change; however, it takes all who are tired of being ‘hoodwinked’ to stand up and say ‘enough, is enough’!

With so much time between columns and so much to share, please stay ’in the loop’ via Noosa 360 with updates on a range of important issues we are working on, including with Nicklin MP Rob regarding those dangerous Cooroy intersections. In addition, follow ‘Sandy Bolton MP’ on Facebook to receive information as soon as available, and subscribe to our e-newsletter at www.SandyBolton.com/Newsletters which also ensures you are advised when Noosa specific surveys are held. Always, if you have any questions or require assistance regarding state related matters, do not hesitate to contact my office at 5319 3100 or email noosa@parliament.qld.gov.au.

Until next month, Sandy x

We’re investing more in the health of our schoolchildren.

The Palaszczuk Government will be investing $106.7 million over three years for the Student Wellbeing Package, which ensures every student, in every primary and secondary state school in Queensland, has access to a health and well-being professional at their school.

Under the package, 50 Queensland state schools – including a total of thirteen schools in the Nicklin electorate – will participate in the GPs in Schools Pilot program, and up to 464 additional wellbeing professionals will be employed to provide extra support for student mental health and wellbeing.

I am proud to be part of a government that understands how important it is to invest in the next generation of workers and leaders. Our local schools will benefit immensely from professionals such as psychologists, social workers and guidance officers, supporting students and teachers alike.

We want to hear your ideas on how we can make takeaway coffee cups and lids more sustainable with our Beyond Cups

Challenge.

The accelerator program will start by recruiting Queensland businesses that are working to deliver alternatives to singleuse plastics.

Innovation Architects will lead an intensive bootcamp for the selected businesses to pitch their product or service and assess their market readiness for suitability to continue with the program.

A shortlisted number of these businesses will seek to collaborate with industry partners who will assist with developing a commercial proof of concept.

The strongest innovators will be given the opportunity to pitch their solutions to industry and government partners through this program, and ultimately receive seed funding by the end of the year.

If you have an idea for how we can make more sustainable cups, let us know by the June 16 at https://beyondcups.com!

Noosa Council has welcomed the transfer of more than 60 Noosa short-stay properties to the permanent rental market since late February. Of the 488 properties on the permanent rental market in Noosa between February 2023 and May 2023, 64 were previously short-stay properties. The news comes after a mailout of letters sent by me on behalf of Council to hundreds of holiday home and short-stay property owners in early February asking them to consider leasing their homes to longterm tenants to help tackle Noosa’s housing crisis. Council could not otherwise deliver 64 houses to the market alone, and certainly not in a matter of months, so the result of the letter campaign is very good. Every vacant and short-stay property made available for longterm tenants means one less family struggling to secure a home. The letter outlined the financial and community benefits for homeowners when making their properties available for rent by a permanent tenant. e.g., cheaper rates, insurance, and a consistent income. Council’s recently adopted Housing Strategy proposes a range of initiatives and solutions to assist all stakeholders and the state and federal governments – which are responsible for social housing - to improve housing choice and affordability. A collaborative effort is key to helping tackle the housing issues and we welcome wholeheartedly the move by so many property owners to transition their properties from short term accommodation to permanent. Good news for our Black Mountain residents. We’ve issued tender documents for the landslide repair - a week after design concepts were endorsed by the Queensland Reconstruction Authority - and we hope to have a contractor in place as soon as possible. Council is incredibly pleased to reach this milestone to issue this multi-million-dollar tender. Engineers have grappled with the complexities and challenges of restoring such a significant landslip. The landslide is as wide as a rugby league playing field and as deep as a five-storey building. It’s the largest ever reconstruction tender to be issued by Noosa Council. Council thanks residents for their patience and appreciates the challenges residents of Black Mountain continue to face and we continue to endeavour to assist in as many ways as possible.

Finally, the 10km track, formally known as Trail 5, which links Pomona to Cooran, is now open again following an upgrade. Works included trail realignments, selective widening, resurfacing, drainage and new wayfinding and interpretive signage.

Part of the Noosa Trails Masterplan, the upgrade aims to improve town connectivity, increase trail use for education and recreation, drive tourism and enhance the trail’s effectiveness as a fire break. The project received $1.61 million in funding from the Federal and Queensland Governments’ Local Economic Recovery (LER) Program through Category D of the Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements, which supports projects that improve the community’s resilience and economic recovery.

Following the success of the Cooroora Trail upgrade, priority upgrades of Trail 7 (Yurol Trail) will follow later this year.

Until next month stay safe, Clare