The strategy identifies areas at risk of coastal hazards, including sea level rise, storm tide inundation, flooding and erosion. It outlines ways to manage risks, ranging from where buried seawalls could be built to enhancing dune protections and offering training and education about coastal hazards. During the special meeting held on Monday to adopt the strategy, Division 9 councillor Jason O Pray pointed to the significant erosion at Maroochydore Beach to Alexandra Headland in 2011 as an example of why coastal hazards must be managed. For those who can cast our minds back to 2011 when there was no sand between Alexandra Headland and Maroochydore, it was devastating, it was a tourism and economic disaster, he said.
It is to council s advantage to have initiated this work so that it is well placed to provide contemporary policy input to the next regional plan, council officers stated. Cr Natoli quizzed them on why the new planning scheme process would start before community consultation on the land use options for a mass transit plan had been carried out. Officers said there would be ample time to consider the Mass Transit Options Analysis and community engagement outcomes, and any council decision, within the new planning scheme process, given the time frames involved. Mass Transit Action Group members took their fight to the steps of council on Thursday to let councillors know their thoughts.
He said he hoped the changes would help build trust and he praised the changes already, noting the council had only gone into confidential session eight times since the new council was elected in March last year. Cr Law is set to take a place on the review steering committee, alongside Cr Suarez, Mayor Mark Jamieson, CEO Emma Thomas or one of her representatives and three external representatives to be appointed. Cr Joe Natoli praised Cr Suarez s efforts and said she had made the point from the very beginning of her tenure, as he said he welcomed the review. Deputy Mayor Rick Baberowski also spoke in support, but clarified whether the review would cover issues he d raised in November, 2019.
Maroochydore Swans Rugby Union Club vice president Megan Constable said the new facilities would encourage and support even more women to get involved in rugby union.
âIn traditionally male-dominated codes like union, this type of progress is vital to attracting more female players, volunteers and supporters,â Ms Constable said.
âWomenâs rugby union is growing right across the Sunshine Coast and now both home and visiting players will have facilities to use before and after games thanks to the new change rooms.â.
The Swans first senior womenâs team launched in 2004 with just 10 players but the club now boasts a field of 65 women.
English-born Tom Roberts (1856-1931) was one of Australia s greatest painters
His major works include Bailed Up, Shearing the Rams and The Golden Fleece
A woman from the Hunter Valley believes she bought a Roberts portrait for $1
Experts say it looks like a Roberts but its provenance could not be established
A Newcastle lawyer took on the task and says she has now solved the mystery
Portrait of a Woman could be worth $50,000 if it is accepted to be by Roberts
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