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Machine transcripts of council's recorded meetings since 2019, every passage cued to the second of council's video.

What Director Walsh said

6.3 hours on the record at 47 meetings between 20 June 2024 and 20 August 2026: about 8 minutes a meeting, 5% of the recording at the meetings where they spoke. A council officer: they speak when councillors ask, so their time on the record follows the questions put to them.

6.3hours spoken, 2024 to 2026
47meetings where the recording names them
13of them in 2026
4%of the recording at those 2026 meetings

A name is attached to a voice only where the recording establishes it: they introduced themselves, the chair called on them by name, or the voice matches meetings where they were named. Where none of that holds, their words stay under “Speaker N” and are not counted here, so these totals are a floor, not a full count. Airtime is not substance: a chair speaks to run the meeting, and a short question can matter more than a long answer. Machine transcript; quote the recording, not this page.

Lately

Their longest unbroken passages at the most recent meeting where the recording names them, the Ordinary Meeting - 20 August 2026. Each timestamp opens council's recording at that second.

8.1 EDUOARD RIOTTOT

00:17:04 · 1 min

Thank you for the question. Speed limits are determined in accordance with Queensland Transport's Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices , Speed Controls, which considers factors such as road function, vehicle speeds, roadside activity and road safety. To ensure consistent and appropriate speed limits across Queensland. Council acknowledges concerns regarding vehicle speeds and has recorded the nominated locations for future investigation. An initial review of available Compass LOT speed data indicates that speeding may be an issue on Ben Lexham Drive, Southern Cross Parade and Dane Paddy Drive. And these roads have been added to Council's proposed schedule for speed limit reviews. As part of the assessment process, Council may undertake traffic counts and speed surveys. To determine whether the current speed environment is appropriate. Any proposed speed limit change must satisfy technical assessment criteria and be considered by the …

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11.1.3 NOOSA HEADS LIONS PARK LAND MANAGEMENT PLAN

01:37:52 · 1 min

Over the Easter period, it was taken over only the five days I think that the car park was operating. So it wasn't an extensive trial. We need to be clearer about that to actually examine the impacts. So, and that was for the use of, through a traffic control company that assist us in the gathering of that data, basically manually. So the most important data in terms of traffic movement that we base our modelling is actually from the car park. There's a car park tech trial that was carried out in the summer of 23-24. And there's a report in the August 2024 GoNUSA report that compiles all of that data. And that's how we know that there's 14,000 movements in that report. So the assessment is a comparison against that longer term data of the whole …

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15 MEETING CLOSURE

04:05:58 · under a minute

If I could assist the Chair, I just want to note, working through the people and culture area, we're actually working on a dedicated piece early ahead of the Workplace Capability Plan with a specific focus on infrastructure services and the need for project managers to be able to do that. And I just want to thank the Director and Manager for pulling that out, because the forces we're faced against across the region are significant, and if we need to have confidence in the delivery of our capital rights program, we need to significantly improve our thrust. Now, whilst we have had some resources challenges, we have had an increasing delivery of the program in recent years, evidenced by the increase in commitments. And we also note that some of the models that we're using, such as use of …

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Meeting by meeting

Minutes the recording attributes to Director Walsh against the length of each recording. Only meetings where they are named are listed. A meeting missing here is not an absence: they may not sit on that committee, or spoke without the recording establishing who they were. Attendance is a different record.

2026: 13 recordings, 116 m spoken
DateMeetingSpokeOfShare
20 AugOrdinary Meeting8 m316 m
11 AugGeneral Committee10 m434 m
16 JulOrdinary Meeting20 m395 m
07 JulGeneral Committee43 m346 m
18 JunOrdinary Meeting2 m254 m
09 JunGeneral Committee13 m396 m
21 MayOrdinary Meeting1 m86 m
12 MayGeneral Committee5 m242 m
16 AprOrdinary Meeting2 m173 m
19 FebOrdinary Meeting1 m82 m
16 FebGeneral Committee4 m132 m
10 FebPlanning & Environment Committee1 m113 m
10 FebServices & Organisation Committee3 m83 m
2025: 23 recordings, 199 m spoken
DateMeetingSpokeOfShare
18 DecOrdinary Meeting6 m299 m
20 NovOrdinary Meeting8 m137 m
17 NovGeneral Committee3 m174 m
18 SepOrdinary Meeting6 m179 m
09 SepServices & Organisation Committee9 m72 m
21 AugOrdinary Meeting3 m87 m
18 AugGeneral Committee5 m170 m
12 AugServices & Organisation Committee< 1 m56 m
17 JulOrdinary Meeting3 m195 m
14 JulGeneral Committee1 m386 m
08 JulServices & Organisation Committee2 m34 m
19 JunOrdinary Meeting7 m298 m
16 JunGeneral Committee50 m381 m
10 JunServices & Organisation Committee8 m48 m
15 MayOrdinary Meeting1 m61 m
12 MayGeneral Committee13 m262 m
06 MayServices & Organisation Committee35 m120 m
20 MarOrdinary Meeting1 m92 m
17 MarGeneral Committee1 m280 m
11 MarServices & Organisation Committee6 m40 m
20 FebOrdinary Meeting4 m70 m
17 FebGeneral Committee1 m105 m
20 JanGeneral Committee14 m314 m
2024: 11 recordings, 60 m spoken
DateMeetingSpokeOfShare
19 DecOrdinary Meeting1 m145 m
10 DecServices & Organisation Committee1 m74 m
21 NovOrdinary Meeting7 m108 m
12 NovServices & Organisation Committee1 m111 m
06 NovSpecial Meeting11 m57 m
17 OctOrdinary Meeting7 m186 m
14 OctGeneral Committee< 1 m139 m
08 OctPlanning & Environment Committee1 m61 m
15 AugOrdinary Meeting2 m106 m
12 AugGeneral Committee17 m280 m
20 JunOrdinary Meeting7 m68 m

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