Noosa Council Analytics
Showing 2023 (2023-01-01 to 2023-12-31).
Overview
40 Noosa Council meetings and 54 meeting hours in 2023, with 443 motions decided and 58 conflicts of interest declared.
Conflicts of Interest →
COI Declarations per Councillor
Brian Stockwell16 matters declared43 records in the minutes
Karen Finzel10 matters declared19 records in the minutesCSClare Stewart9 matters declared21 records in the minutes
Frank Wilkie9 matters declared17 records in the minutes
Amelia Lorentson8 matters declared19 records in the minutes
Tom Wegener5 matters declared8 records in the minutesJJJoe Jurisevic1 matter declared2 records in the minutesFull register: every declaration, verbatim →
Extracted automatically from the official council minutes, the statutory record under the Local Government Act 2009 (Qld) s150FA. Extraction can miss or mis-parse entries. Each entry links to the official minutes; verify against the source. Declaring a conflict is the process working, not an accusation.
Motions
Which councillors move and second the formal motions recorded in the official minutes in 2023, and how they fare.
Moved and Seconded
| Councillor | Moved | Seconded | Carried | Lost | Success as mover |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JJJoe Jurisevic (former) | 120 | 61 | 116 | 0 | 100% |
| Brian Stockwell | 108 | 29 | 104 | 2 | 98% |
| CSClare Stewart (former) | 74 | 94 | 73 | 0 | 100% |
| Amelia Lorentson | 56 | 58 | 52 | 3 | 95% |
| Frank Wilkie | 51 | 58 | 46 | 2 | 96% |
| Tom Wegener | 31 | 79 | 30 | 1 | 97% |
| Karen Finzel | 14 | 73 | 13 | 1 | 93% |
454 motions recorded: 434 carried, 9 lost, 0 withdrawn, 1 lapsed, 10 superseded by amendment. 422 were unanimous.
The chair moves many procedural motions (adoption of minutes, moving between sessions), which inflates the mayoral count. The same honesty rule as speaking time applies.
Casting-Vote Decisions
Rare tie-breaks decided by the chair's casting vote.
- 26 October 2023: "That Council note the declarable conflicts of interest by Cr Stockwell and determine that Cr Stockwell participates and …" was lost on the casting vote of the chair (meeting · minutes)
- 26 October 2023: "That Council defer consideration of the Noosa River Catchment Management Plan (NRCMP) to enable Council to undertake app…" was carried on the casting vote of the chair (meeting · minutes)
Notified Motions
How many notified motions each councillor put on the agenda in 2023 (items councillors raise themselves, not officer reports).
Notified Motions per Councillor
Every Notified Motion
| Councillor | Notice | Outcome | Meeting |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brian Stockwell | Accelerating River Action | Carried | 14 December 2023 meeting · minutes |
Open the full notified motions register →
A notified motion is an item a councillor puts on the agenda themselves, rather than responding to an officer report. These are the 1 recorded under the "Notified Motions" section of the minutes in 2023, credited to the councillor who moved each one. Amendments and restatements of the same item are not counted again, and a conflict-of-interest determination on the item is not treated as authorship. A notice withdrawn before it was moved is not counted.
Voting Records
Named For and Against votes from the official minutes in 2023: how councillors vote, together and apart.
Named divisions were recorded only occasionally in this year; these figures cover the recorded divisions only.
How often each pair of councillors voted the same way in recorded divisions. Shading is scaled to the range shown, deepest green for the most aligned pair through to red for the least. Click any cell for that pair's full division history.
Voting Alignment
Share of each councillor's recorded votes that were on the losing side of the division. A higher share means voting against the eventual decision more often; it is not a measure of merit.
Votes on the Losing Side
Contested Votes
Divisions where at least one councillor voted Against. The full table, every division linked to the meeting and the official minutes, has its own page.
Seconder Pairings
Who seconds whose motions in the official minutes in 2023.
Who Seconds Whom
Most Frequent Pairings
- CS Clare Stewart (former) seconded motions moved by JJ Joe Jurisevic (former) ×30
- Tom Wegener seconded motions moved by JJ Joe Jurisevic (former) ×29
- Tom Wegener seconded motions moved by Brian Stockwell ×26
- Karen Finzel seconded motions moved by Brian Stockwell ×24
- CS Clare Stewart (former) seconded motions moved by Brian Stockwell ×23
- Amelia Lorentson seconded motions moved by JJ Joe Jurisevic (former) ×21
Read a row across: how often each other councillor seconded that councillor’s motions. Blank cells: never. Every motion block in the official minutes counts, including amendments and procedural motions, so chairing duty inflates some numbers. A motion needs a seconder before it can be debated, so frequent pairings show who reliably gets whose ideas onto the floor.
Speaking Time
Share of Speaking Time
- Amelia Lorentson18.5%
- Joe Jurisevic (former)18.0%
- Brian Stockwell17.7%
- Frank Wilkie16.1%
- Clare Stewart (former)12.3%
- Tom Wegener10.7%
- Karen Finzel6.7%
Total Speaking Time
Pet Phrases & Platitudes
The phrases we keep an ear on in the chamber, counted across councillor speech in the meeting transcripts in 2023. Staff and public speakers are not counted.
“Point of order”
24 mentions across all councillors in 2023
| Brian Stockwell | ×9 |
| JJJoe Jurisevic (former) | ×6 |
| Karen Finzel | ×4 |
| Amelia Lorentson | ×3 |
| Frank Wilkie | ×1 |
| Tom Wegener | ×1 |
| CSClare Stewart (former) | ×0 |
“Community”
910 mentions across all councillors in 2023
| Amelia Lorentson | ×189 |
| Brian Stockwell | ×158 |
| JJJoe Jurisevic (former) | ×149 |
| CSClare Stewart (former) | ×128 |
| Karen Finzel | ×128 |
| Frank Wilkie | ×103 |
| Tom Wegener | ×55 |
“I will”
192 mentions across all councillors in 2023
| Brian Stockwell | ×41 |
| Amelia Lorentson | ×34 |
| CSClare Stewart (former) | ×33 |
| Karen Finzel | ×25 |
| Frank Wilkie | ×21 |
| JJJoe Jurisevic (former) | ×19 |
| Tom Wegener | ×19 |
“STA”
16 mentions across all councillors in 2023
| Amelia Lorentson | ×6 |
| Frank Wilkie | ×4 |
| Tom Wegener | ×3 |
| Karen Finzel | ×2 |
| CSClare Stewart (former) | ×1 |
| Brian Stockwell | ×0 |
| JJJoe Jurisevic (former) | ×0 |
Attendance
Meetings each councillor attended in 2023, from the official attendance record in each meeting's minutes.
Attendance Record
| Councillor | Attendance | Apologies | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amelia Lorentson | Present 8 of 8 | 0 apologies | 100% |
| Brian Stockwell | Present 8 of 8 | 0 apologies | 100% |
| Frank Wilkie | Present 8 of 8 | 0 apologies | 100% |
| JJJoe Jurisevic (former) | Present 8 of 10 | 2 apologies | 80% |
| Tom Wegener | Present 8 of 10 | 2 apologies | 80% |
| Karen Finzel | Present 7 of 10 | 3 apologies | 70% |
| CSClare Stewart (former) | Present 8 of 14 | 6 apologies | 57% |
Chairing
Who chaired the meetings in 2023. The chair runs proceedings and speaks between every item.
Meetings Chaired
Contributions
How many times each councillor spoke in 2023, and the longest single contributions.
Contributions per Councillor
Longest Single Contributions
| # | Councillor | Meeting | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | JJJoe Jurisevic (former) | Services & Organisation Committee Meeting, 6 June 2023 | 13 min |
| 2 | Frank Wilkie chaired this meeting | General Committee Meeting, 18 September 2023 | 12 min |
| 3 | CSClare Stewart (former) chaired this meeting | Special Meeting, 30 June 2023 | 12 min |
| 4 | Amelia Lorentson | General Committee Meeting, 17 April 2023 | 9 min |
| 5 | Frank Wilkie | Ordinary Meeting, 26 October 2023 | 9 min |
| 6 | JJJoe Jurisevic (former) | Ordinary Meeting, 26 October 2023 | 8 min |
| 7 | Brian Stockwell | General Committee Meeting, 17 July 2023 | 7 min |
| 8 | Brian Stockwell | Ordinary Meeting, 21 September 2023 | 7 min |
| 9 | Brian Stockwell | Special Meeting, 22 May 2023 | 7 min |
| 10 | Tom Wegener | Ordinary Meeting, 16 November 2023 | 7 min |
Each link opens the exact spot in the meeting transcript.
Chamber Airtime Composition
Who does the talking in 2023: all attributed speech in the AI transcripts, split between councillors (chairing included), named council staff (the executive listed in each meeting header), named public speakers, and voices the transcription could not identify. Attribution is automated and can be wrong.
Public Question Time
12 public questions were put to Council across 5 meetings in 2023, from the minutes’ Public Question Time sections.
Most Frequent Questioners
- Debra Walz ×2
- Brian O'Connor ×2
- Nick Cooke ×2
- Ian Glew ×2
- Andrew Mccarthy ×1
- Sania Boric ×1
- Julie Watson ×1
- Hayley Hass ×1
Names as recorded in the official public minutes. Residents asking questions of their council is the transparency process working.
Transparency
Closed sessions, petitions and deputations recorded in the official minutes in 2023.
Meetings
The meetings behind these numbers, by type and length.
By Meeting Type
| Meeting type | Held | Avg length | Longest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ordinary | 9 | 1h 11m | Ordinary Meeting, 21 September 2023 (2h 5m) |
| Planning & Environment | 9 | 1h 1m | Planning & Environment Committee Meeting, 11 July 2023 (2h 55m) |
| Services & Organisation | 9 | 49m | Services & Organisation Committee Meeting, 11 April 2023 (2h 15m) |
| General Committee | 8 | 2h 50m | General Committee Meeting, 12 June 2023 (4h 11m) |
| Special | 5 | 44m | Special Meeting, 30 June 2023 (1h 27m) |
About This Data
Every number on this page is computed from three sources, each used for what it is authoritative about, and every number is at most one click from the public record it came from.
- Meeting transcripts feed speaking time, contributions, phrase counts and topics. Transcription and speaker attribution are machine-assisted and can be wrong. Speaking time includes chairing, which inflates the chair's share.
- Meeting headers (the published attendance record) feed attendance, apologies and chairing. These are structured facts, not transcript inference.
- Official minutes (the statutory record) feed motions, named division votes, conflict-of-interest declarations and transparency counters. Extraction is automated against the statutory wording and can miss or mis-parse entries; each extracted record links to the official minutes so it can be verified at the source.
A phrase count is not a formal declaration or ruling. A conflict-of-interest declaration is the transparency process working, not an accusation. Motion and voting figures count what the minutes record; named For/Against divisions became routine practice around 2025, so earlier years understate division detail.
A notified motion is an item a councillor puts on the agenda themselves. These are counted from the minutes' "Notified Motions" section, one per agenda item, credited to the councillor who moved it. Amendments and restatements of the same item are not counted again, and a conflict-of-interest determination on the item is not treated as authorship. A notice withdrawn before it was moved is recorded in the minutes but is not attributed here, because the withdrawal line is narrative rather than a structured record.
Figures for this view cover 2023-01-01 to 2023-12-31.
