By Diet Simon and Mark Rodriquez

The Sunshine Coast Mayor, Bob Abbott, wants people here to help Council resist state government dictates on increasing our population. An interview with him about that led our 9 March edition of What’s Going On?

Also in that show were interviews

• on finding compromises between live music noise levels and opportunities for musicians to make a living
• an expert community rebuilder consulting with the Mary
  Valley people
• a Nambour high school helping an Aboriginal primary school in north Queensland
• how a puppy starts a career to guide dog for a blind person
• and theatre notes

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• Authorities stopping yet more live music on our coast,
• a daring new play at Noosa Arts Theatre
• and free parenting courses funded by Council were the main stories of What’s Going On? on 2 March.

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By Diet Simon

About 200 people in the Pomona Memorial Hall, used daily by various groups.

You probably thought that the huge Kin Kin quarry soon to start operating is a worry only for the people up there in the hinterland hills, not for us down here by the sea. Think again.

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You first heard Robert Glen, an anti quarry campaigner, then Dr Seonaid Melville, Chair of the Noosa Biosphere Community Environment Sector board, addressing a public meeting last Thursday. Two hundred people packed the Pomona Hall to capacity. Pomona faces huge losses, as you’ll hear.

(Left to right) Michael Donovan, David Gibson, Warren Truss, Seonaid Melville

The Kin Kin quarry dispute was my main story on What’s Going On? on Tuesday 23 February. It also contained

• criticism from the Save the Mary River group over plans to suck the river dry for Brisbane water consumers;
• and how the Noosa Heads branch of Rotary is pitching in to an international campaign to eradicate polio from the four countries where it is still a huge problem. The crippling disease can jump countries;
• theatre notes on upcoming rehearsals for One Act Plays in Noosa. [Read more →]

The Aboriginal assertion of sovereignty is to be put to the Federal Parliament by the Greens Senator Rachel Siewert at the request of a New Way Aboriginal Summit in Canberra from 30 January to 1 February. Senator Siewert made the pledge to about 120 Aboriginal delegates from across the continent. [Read more →]

No rest for the people who saved the Mary River from getting dammed at Traveston. The Bligh government is committing another water folly with its northern connector pipeline which will endanger the river’s health all over again. David Kreutz of the Save the Mary River Coordinating Group explained that piping water out of the river to Brisbane will still endanger the lungfish, the turtle and the cod that stopped the Traveston dam.

What’s Going On? on Tuesday 9 February also reported on

• the resistance against desalination plans for Marcoola,
• saving on power bills and potentially even making money from solar power,
• the horrific lives of Cambodian girls sold into sex slavery,
• a Noosa group helping to build high-tech orphanages in Kenya,
• and a deal with Council for twice-monthly Peregian Originals until a review in November.

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