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 [...]
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by Mark Rodriquez and Diet Simon.
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.
All comment is ours or that of the people talking to us, not necessarily that of this [...]
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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, [...]
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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.
Michael Anderson & Senator [...]
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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 [...]
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For the third year running Sunshine Coast people had an opportunity to build positive relationships and share in local Aboriginal culture, and Aboriginal people could inform themselves about support services available to them, at the Booin Gari festival in Tewantin on 19 January.Some random voices:
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Booin Gari means “come this way” in the language of [...]
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The Sunshine Coast Council worries that Queensland government planning is not paying enough attention to the hazards of rising sea levels. A Yandina woman feels bullied by that government over its use of her land for a pipeline experts say is not needed. Plans are in train to spruce up Noosa Junction and Noosa Biosphere [...]
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Lyndon Davis, Gubbi Gubbi Dancers leader
For the third year running Sunshine Coast people had an opportunity to build positive relationships and share in local Aboriginal culture, and Aboriginal people could inform themselves about support services available to them, at the Booin Gari festival in Tewantin on 19 January.
Booin Gari means “come this way” in the [...]
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We’ve killed the Traveston dam – at great personal cost and trauma to many people – now the Coast’s residents are having to fight desalination of sea water at Marcoola. Another unneeded mega project to cause our people unnecessary grief. When will this lobby-driven mob in George Street Brisbane, who’re totally out of touch with [...]
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The Noosa area gets 1.75 million visitors a year, who spend more than 900 million dollars per year in the wider Noosa footprint, which includes such parts as Doonan, Verrierdale and Eumundi. Noosa funds and does its own tourism promotion, separate from other parts of the Sunshine Coast. That’s now under threat with moves afoot [...]
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