Organisation Sunshine Coast Association of Residents
The Local Government Association of Queensland (LGAQ) issued a news release on 8 September 2017 calling for a spending cap by candidates for local government elections (See below). · OSCAR endorses the LGAQ’s call for caps on council election campaign funding. · The amounts suggested are far too high however; […]
In recent weeks, Sunshine Coast Council has hosted five community consultation sessions across the region, with 350 people registering their attendance. The sessions were also attended by local Councillors Peter Cox, Jason O’Pray, Greg Rogerson, Steve Robinson, Jenny McKay and Deputy Mayor Tim Dwyer. The community consultation sessions provided council […]
IT’S the question facing our community now and into the future. How do we get around? With an extra 200,000 people set to move to the Sunshine Coast over the next quarter of a century and a long-suffering Bruce Hwy already struggling to service the community, the window for securing […]
QUEENSLANDERS do not think their councils are doing enough to respond to community concerns, new research reveals. In a Local Government Association of Queensland survey, residents rated response to the community as the worst performing area for councils across the state. Those surveyed also said only water supply was more […]
The Sunshine Coast received a taste of the future normal for low-lying coastal communities everywhere when, in the middle of a drought-like winter, water flooded through storm water outlets and over the top of revetment walls and onto key streets across the region. The cause wasn’t an intense east coast […]