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 to harmonise tourism promotion Coast-wide What’s Going On? talked about that on Wednesday 13 January with Steve Cooper, CEO of Tourism Noosa.
The show also reran an interview by Tania Nash about Reality Bites, Australia’s premier non-fiction literary festival taking place in and around Cooroy from the 24th of July to the first of August; it had a talk with a 15-year-old Maroochydore lad who’s scored a part in a fantasy movie for kids; heard a 12-year-old girl’s take on life; and poetry about aspects of love.
“It should worry a lot of people”
Steve Cooper CEO, Tourism Noosa
There’s talk of homogenisation, or harmonisation, or levelling out of tourism promotion all along the Sunshine Coast. That worries a lot of people in Noosa, including the CEO of Tourism Noosa, Steve Cooper.
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“We can have a concentration of authors over a shorter amount of time”
Reality Bites coordinator Annette Hughes
Federal, Queensland and Council financial support has been pledged for the Reality Bites non-fiction literary festival this year, the third time it’s happening. Most of the week’s events will take place in and around Cooroy. The coordinator, Annette Hughes, talked to Tania Nash.
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“I do all the staff that the actual actor doesn’t want to do”
A Maroochydore boy of 15 has won a stand-in part in a movie due for release next year. It’s “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”, the 3rd episode in a series of seven fantasy novels for children, “The Chronicles of Narnia”. Narnia is a place where animals talk, magic is common, good battles evil and children play central roles. Morgan Keavney-Rattue from Kuluin had his own rock show with us for a while last year before leaving to pursue his acting career. Mark began by asking him why he was chosen for the role.
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The hollywoodesque encounter of a 12-year-old girl
What do you remember about starting high school? The music you liked at 12? How much pocket money you received, if any?! Jasmin Midgley spoke to a young local girl about such things.
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“Nobody has taught me how love feels….”
Poet Jens-Uwe Korff, a Sydney-based web designer and friend of Diet’s who was up here for a Christmas break, mused about aspects of love.
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Little Ella gets to see a specialist about her tonsils
Mark had received the good news that after an insanely long wait due to Queensland underfunding of health care, 20-month-old Ella Lawrence will get to see a Brisbane specialist on the 26th of next month to assess her tonsils, which have been infected practically all her life. You might remember an interview with her mother just before Christmas. Her parents think that may have helped to get action. And most likely more clout came from Noosa MP, Glen Elmes, who passed the case and our interview on to the opposition spokesman for health and who told us that Queensland Health was in breach of the law in making the Lawrences wait so long.
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