BUDGET 2024 – 25 SUMMARY
Queenslanders have endured ongoing financial and emotional hardship since the COVID-19 pandemic....
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Category: Camping and National Parks
COOLOOLA GREAT WALK ECOTOURISM PROJECT (CGWEP) UPDATE JUNE 2024
Sandy recently announced a positive outcome to her request for no commercially built structures in...
Read MorePOMONA KING OF THE MOUNTAIN MARCH 2024
In response to concerns regarding the cancellation of this much-loved annual event by the King of the Mountain (KOM) committee, Sandy asked a Question without Notice (QWN) during Parliament to the Queensland Minister for...
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NOOSA NATIONAL PARK CAR PARK UPDATE FEBRUARY 2024
As per our February 2021 Noosa 360 update, in 2018 Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS)...
Read MoreNOOSA AND TEWANTIN NATIONAL PARKS FEBRUARY 2024
In Sandy’s recent Noosa MP Community Survey, some residents expressed the below concerns regarding our local National Parks: What are the future plans for the Noosa National Park? How are we protecting habitat from urban...
Read MoreCOOLOOLA GREAT WALK ECOTOURISM PROJECT (CGWEP) UPDATE NOVEMBER 2023
Following on from our September 2023 Noosa 360 update, which in summary relayed the CGWEP Noosa MP survey results, a letter was sent on 11 September 2023, to both the Queensland Minister for Environment and the Queensland...
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POMONA MEN’S SHED UPDATE OCTOBER 2023
In November 2022, following Sandy’s long advocacy, a small portion of land was revocated from...
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COOLOOLA GREAT WALK ECOTOURISM PROJECT (CGWEP) – NOOSA MP ISSUE SPECIFIC SURVEY RESULTS SEPTEMBER 2023
As an Independent MP, it is important for Sandy to hear directly from Noosa constituents, as she...
Read MoreCOOLOOLA GREAT WALK ECOTOURISM PROJECT UPDATE AUGUST 2022
In response to questions and concerns raised at a Cootharaba Community Association meeting earlier in the year, the Department of Environment (DES), has provided the following responses. Issue CCA question/request Proposed...
Read MoreCOOLOOLA GREAT WALK UPDATE JUNE 2022
The recent Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) Summit at the Sunshine Coast Conference Centre, 30 years after Mabo, was one of the biggest gatherings ever of this kind. Convened in...
Read MoreNATIVE TITLE, LAND RIGHTS & COOLOOLA GREAT WALK CONSULTATION – A SUMMARY
With concerns coming to our office regarding the Cooloola Great Walk Ecotourism Project (CGWEP), a project between the QLD State Government, a private company CABN and the Kabi Kabi peoples, and the many often confusing...
Read MoreCOOLOOLA GREAT WALK UPDATE MARCH 2022
Further to previous updates and following discussions between Sandy and Minister Scanlon, and also her staff, we have been advised the following: Whilst a document listing sites for cabins/safari tents was sent as part of the...
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