Dive in as Noosa News launches faster, cleaner experience Noah Behan, 18, leaps into the water at Little Cove in Noosa with the help of mates Harry Stiller, 17 and Isaac Austin, 18. Picture: Lachie Millard
News 28th Apr 2021 5:00 AM
Welcome to your new home for local news in Noosa.
Bringing the Noosa News under the umbrella of The Courier-Mail will provide you with a faster, cleaner, world-class news experience.
You will have much easier access to subscriber rewards, interactive sports features like SuperCoach, True Crime Australia podcasts and more puzzles to choose from.
The new site also offers our valued subscribers a far better app experience as well as new local daily newsletters, giving you the very best of our local coverage as well as stories you need to know from across Queensland.
From my early days as
Queensland Times cadet in Ipswich my passion for playing and covering sport (including reporting at the Brisbane Commonwealth Games) has mixed well with my other major interest – covering local and state politics.
I still vividly recall the toppling of the Sir Joh National Party era after 32 years in power back in 1989. Friends of Noosa celebrate the de-amalgamation victory with hundreds of supporters outside Council Chambers. Photo Geoff Potter
I’ve always enjoyed feeling a strong sense of community through playing and reporting on rugby league, including Alfie Langer’s State of Origin debut. I’ve also served as a volunteer lifesaver at Coolum Beach for almost a quarter of a century.
In the coming days, that delivery method will evolve again. Noosa News will continue to be accessible by visiting noosanews.com.au. But our website will soon have its own stand-alone section on the Courier Mail instead. The change will deliver a faster loading times of stories, quicker coverage of breaking news across Queensland, Australia and beyond, and quick access to Rewards, SuperCoach, and other great features of a statewide website. Instead of needing to access two websites you are paying for, everything is in one place. One login, one password. Honey cools off with a dip in Noosa River. Picture: Lachie Millard
âI was a bit numb when I heard,â she said.
âI thought âoh my god is this really happening, have we really done thisâ?
âI did all this for her and the all those other kids,â Ms Shoesmith said.
Those other children sadly includes 14-month-old Isabella Rees who died in a Melbourne hospital in 2015 after swallowing a button battery.
Then tragically in July last year three-year-old Gold Coast tot Brittney Conway suffered the same painful death as the battery burned through her oesophagus and into her aorta.
The Federal Government cites at least 44 cases of young children suffering severe injuries from ingesting button batteries since December 2017.
âI was a bit numb when I heard,â she said.
âI thought âoh my god is this really happening, have we really done thisâ?
âI did all this for her and the all those other kids,â Ms Shoesmith said.
Those other children sadly includes 14-month-old Isabella Rees who died in a Melbourne hospital in 2015 after swallowing a button battery.
Then tragically in July last year three-year-old Gold Coast tot Brittney Conway suffered the same painful death as the battery burned through her oesophagus and into her aorta.
The Federal Government cites at least 44 cases of young children suffering severe injuries from ingesting button batteries since December 2017.