About this site

Noosa Shire Council publishes its agendas, minutes and meeting videos. Almost nobody reads them, because a 400-page packet posted the Friday before a Wednesday meeting is not really published in any useful sense. This site does the reading.

What we do

• Summarise every meeting in plain English: what was decided, who moved it, what got deferred, and what changed from the officer's recommendation.
• Cue the video. Council's recordings carry per-item timestamps. We turn those into links, so "they voted on this at 55 minutes" is one click, not a scrub bar.
• Track the closed doors. Every time the public was shut out, and the reason council gave.
• Keep the history. When an item returns for the fourth time in six years, the dossier says so.

Why we link documents instead of hosting them

Council's document service hands out links that expire within minutes and require a private header, so a copied link is broken before anyone clicks it. Rather than pretend otherwise, we name each report and attachment exactly as council listed it and send you to council's own portal for the file. That also means the record you read is the record council stands behind, not our copy of it.

Meeting video is different: those URLs are public and stable, so we link them directly and deep-link to the second.

Where the facts come from

Meeting dates, agenda structure, item names, video timestamps and document listings are pulled from council's published meeting feed. The closed-door register is compiled by parsing council's own agendas and minutes. Development application figures come from council's public application register.

Analysis, summaries and dossiers are ours. Every page that carries them says so. We separate the two deliberately: you should always be able to tell council's record from our reading of it.

Corrections

If something here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it and say what changed. Accuracy is the only thing this site has going for it.

Independence

Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or funded by Noosa Shire Council, any councillor, candidate, developer or political party.