Kicking off 2022
Well, here we all are and welcome to 2022. We all hope you are safe and are looking forward to getting out there. Despite...
NAC reopens
The Noosa Aquatic Centre will reopen from 7am Saturday 8 January.
The facility has undergone a “thorough clean” during a two-day closure arising from confirmed...
Does the end justify the means?
Remember way back in the mists of time when Prime Minister Morrison and the Federal Government finally stopped tyre-kicking around the vaccine shops and...
Cricket season returns this weekend
Quote of the week:- “To me, it doesn’t matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do...
Remembering John Bowie
It’s a year since Noosa lost John Bowie, a bloke who personified what this summer time column is all about – people who love...
Covid shuts Aquatic centre
The Noosa Aquatic Centre will close for 48 hours after confirmed positive COVID-19 cases by community members who attended the facility.
Council announced that with...
Busy time for life savers
For one branch of our frontline essential service workers, the lifeguards and lifesavers at Noosa’s Main Beach, the New Year weekend, will certainly be...
Green turtle rescued from crab pot
The Australia Zoo Rescue Unit recently rushed to the aid of a stranded green sea turtle on the beach, after she was found entangled...
Vale Patsy Stevens
“Jazz is king, jazz is the thing the folks dig the most.”
U.S. crooner Bing Crosby sang the line and Melbourne teenager Patsy...
Cabinet papers released 30 years on
The release of the 1991 Queensland Cabinet Minutes on 1 January offers an insight into the Wayne Goss-led government and the end of the...
WA adopts Helitak
Western Australia has now joined South Australia in securing Black Hawk helicopters equipped with Noosa-designed and manufactured Helitak next generation aerial fire suppression system...
Cyclone Seth delivers wet and wild weather
With the eastern beaches closed this week because of large seas whipped up by ex-Tropical Cyclone Seth, holidaymakers headed to Noosa Main Beach for...