Noosa Council Watch

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What each councillor has declared in the register of interests council publishes.

Amelia Lorentson

What Noosa Council paid Amelia Lorentson and what Amelia claimed on top, 2019-20 to 2024-25, as the annual reports print it. Every figure links to the page it was read from.

$416,216remuneration, 6 years
$59,809expenses and allowances
$18,702of that, beyond the flat allowances

Year by year

YearRole Salary + super Expenses total Beyond allowances Source
2019-20† Councillor 13,448 1,707 0 AR 2019-20 p.18, AR 2019-20 p.19
2020-21 Councillor 76,363 7,880 0 AR 2020-21 p.35, AR 2020-21 p.36
2021-22 Councillor 79,232 10,812 2,932 AR 2021-22 p.61, AR 2021-22 p.62
2022-23 Councillor 80,810 12,558 4,678 AR 2022-23 p.86, AR 2022-23 p.87
2023-24† Councillor 82,295 13,353 5,473 AR 2023-24 p.75, AR 2023-24 p.76
2024-25 Councillor 84,068 13,499 5,619 AR 2024-25 p.49, AR 2024-25 p.50

What the expenses were

The categories as each year's report printed them. The vehicle and home-office figures are flat allowances paid to every councillor; the others are claims. A dash is a category that year's table did not have.

Year Mandatory PD & representation Discretionary PD & representation Vehicle allowance Home office & phone Accommodation Hospitality Travel Hospitality & travel Total
2019-20† 0 0 1,083 624 — — 0 — 1,707
2020-21 0 0 5,000 2,880 — — 0 — 7,880
2021-22 0 2,932 5,000 2,880 — — 0 — 10,812
2022-23 2,383 2,295 5,000 2,880 — — 0 — 12,558
2023-24† 2,611 2,862 5,000 2,880 — — — 0 13,353
2024-25 3,173 2,446 5,000 2,880 — — — 0 13,499

† An election year: council printed the figures as two tables, to and from polling day. The two are added here; the source links open both.

Reading the figures. "Mandatory" professional development and representation is conference travel the policy funds without a case-by-case claim: the LGAQ conference, the Mayor at the national ALGA assembly, and anything else Council resolved to send a councillor to. "Discretionary" is the councillor's own allowance for courses and conferences, capped at $2,500 a year with one year's carry-forward. Council reports each year that every claim fell within the policy's limits. No report itemises what a conference or trip cost; a year's figure is the year's figure. The policy is on council's website.

All councillors' years side by side: pay and expenses.