Noosa Council Watch

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

Clare Stewart

What Noosa Council paid Clare Stewart and what Clare claimed on top, 2019-20 to 2023-24, as the annual reports print it. Every figure links to the page it was read from.

$590,652remuneration, 5 years
$38,568expenses and allowances
$7,311of that, beyond the flat allowances

Year by year

YearRole Salary + super Expenses total Beyond allowances Source
2019-20† Mayor 25,250 1,707 0 AR 2019-20 p.18, AR 2019-20 p.19
2020-21 Mayor 143,743 8,544 664 AR 2020-21 p.35, AR 2020-21 p.36
2021-22 Mayor 149,146 9,651 1,771 AR 2021-22 p.61, AR 2021-22 p.62
2022-23 Mayor 152,117 10,995 3,115 AR 2022-23 p.86, AR 2022-23 p.87
2023-24† Mayor 120,396 7,671 1,761 AR 2023-24 p.75, AR 2023-24 p.76

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
2020-21 664 0 5,000 2,880 — — 0 — 8,544
2021-22 1,531 240 5,000 2,880 — — 0 — 9,651
2022-23 3,103 12 5,000 2,880 — — 0 — 10,995
2023-24† 1,451 310 3,750 2,160 — — — 0 7,671

† 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.