Noosa Council Analytics
Showing 2025 (2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31).
Overview
51 Noosa Council meetings and 103 meeting hours in 2025, with 453 motions decided and 11 conflicts of interest declared.
Conflicts of Interest →
COI Declarations per Councillor
Jessica Phillips4 matters declared6 records in the minutes
Nicola Wilson3 matters declared4 records in the minutes
Brian Stockwell2 matters declared6 records in the minutes
Frank Wilkie1 matter declared2 records in the minutes
Amelia Lorentson1 matter declared1 records in the minutes
Karen Finzel0 matters declared
Tom Wegener0 matters declaredFull 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 2025, and how they fare.
Moved and Seconded
| Councillor | Moved | Seconded | Carried | Lost | Success as mover |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frank Wilkie | 127 | 49 | 107 | 2 | 98% |
| Amelia Lorentson | 114 | 66 | 90 | 17 | 84% |
| Brian Stockwell | 82 | 52 | 68 | 3 | 96% |
| Karen Finzel | 57 | 89 | 52 | 2 | 96% |
| Jessica Phillips | 44 | 89 | 37 | 5 | 88% |
| Nicola Wilson | 41 | 65 | 39 | 2 | 95% |
| Tom Wegener | 29 | 75 | 29 | 0 | 100% |
494 motions recorded: 422 carried, 31 lost, 2 withdrawn, 4 lapsed, 35 superseded by amendment. 385 were unanimous.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.
- 18 December 2025: "That Item L be added to read: L. Ensure that the Destination Stewardship Council include meaningful representation from …" was lost on the casting vote of the chair (meeting · minutes)
- 18 December 2025: "That Item F be added to read: F. Request the Chief Executive Officer prepare and present to Council a draft Tourism Noos…" was lost on the casting vote of the chair (meeting · minutes)
- 18 December 2025: "That Council A. Note the report by the Chief Executive Officer to the Ordinary Committee dated 18 December 2025 regardin…" was carried on the casting vote of the chair (meeting · minutes)
Notified Motions
How many notified motions each councillor put on the agenda in 2025 (items councillors raise themselves, not officer reports).
Notified Motions per Councillor
Every Notified Motion
| Councillor | Notice | Outcome | Meeting |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amelia Lorentson | Advocacy for Affordable Housing | Carried | 18 December 2025 meeting · minutes |
| Amelia Lorentson | Investigation into a Local Policy on Electronic Gaming Machines on Council-Owned or Trustee Land | Carried | 20 November 2025 meeting · minutes |
| Amelia Lorentson | Enhancing Future Public Notification for Planning Scheme Provision Changes | Carried | 18 September 2025 meeting · minutes |
| Amelia Lorentson | Audit of Accessible Parking Provision in Noosa Shire | Carried | 19 June 2025 meeting · minutes |
| Amelia Lorentson | Encouraging an Industry-Led Transition from Single-Use Coffee Cups in Partnership with Plastic Free Noosa | Carried | 19 June 2025 meeting · minutes |
| Jessica Phillips | Proposal to Waive Dog Registration Fees for Approved Foster Carers | Carried | 19 June 2025 meeting · minutes |
| Amelia Lorentson | Change of Ordinary Meeting Time | Lost | 20 February 2025 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 7 recorded under the "Notified Motions" section of the minutes in 2025, 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 2025: how councillors vote, together and apart.
Named For/Against divisions became routine practice around 2025. Earlier years show 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 2025.
Who Seconds Whom
Most Frequent Pairings
- Jessica Phillips seconded motions moved by Amelia Lorentson ×37
- Karen Finzel seconded motions moved by Amelia Lorentson ×27
- Brian Stockwell seconded motions moved by Frank Wilkie ×27
- Tom Wegener seconded motions moved by Frank Wilkie ×25
- Tom Wegener seconded motions moved by Brian Stockwell ×25
- Karen Finzel seconded motions moved by Frank Wilkie ×24
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 Lorentson25.3%
- Frank Wilkie23.1%
- Brian Stockwell17.7%
- Karen Finzel12.4%
- Jessica Phillips11.4%
- Nicola Wilson5.5%
- Tom Wegener4.6%
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 2025. Staff and public speakers are not counted.
“Point of order”
54 mentions across all councillors in 2025
| Brian Stockwell | ×25 |
| Amelia Lorentson | ×15 |
| Frank Wilkie | ×12 |
| Jessica Phillips | ×1 |
| Nicola Wilson | ×1 |
| Karen Finzel | ×0 |
| Tom Wegener | ×0 |
“Community”
1,555 mentions across all councillors in 2025
| Amelia Lorentson | ×422 |
| Frank Wilkie | ×313 |
| Karen Finzel | ×302 |
| Jessica Phillips | ×231 |
| Brian Stockwell | ×170 |
| Nicola Wilson | ×78 |
| Tom Wegener | ×39 |
“I will”
183 mentions across all councillors in 2025
| Brian Stockwell | ×45 |
| Amelia Lorentson | ×39 |
| Jessica Phillips | ×33 |
| Frank Wilkie | ×21 |
| Karen Finzel | ×19 |
| Nicola Wilson | ×17 |
| Tom Wegener | ×9 |
“STA”
28 mentions across all councillors in 2025
| Amelia Lorentson | ×8 |
| Frank Wilkie | ×6 |
| Brian Stockwell | ×5 |
| Tom Wegener | ×4 |
| Nicola Wilson | ×3 |
| Jessica Phillips | ×2 |
| Karen Finzel | ×0 |
Attendance
Meetings each councillor attended in 2025, from the official attendance record in each meeting's minutes.
Attendance Record
| Councillor | Attendance | Apologies | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amelia Lorentson | Present 17 of 17 | 0 apologies | 100% |
| Brian Stockwell | Present 17 of 17 | 0 apologies | 100% |
| Karen Finzel | Present 17 of 17 | 0 apologies | 100% |
| Nicola Wilson | Present 17 of 17 | 0 apologies | 100% |
| Jessica Phillips | Present 16 of 17 | 1 apology | 94% |
| Tom Wegener | Present 17 of 19 | 2 apologies | 89% |
| Frank Wilkie | Present 17 of 21 | 4 apologies | 81% |
Chairing
Who chaired the meetings in 2025. The chair runs proceedings and speaks between every item.
Meetings Chaired
Contributions
How many times each councillor spoke in 2025, and the longest single contributions.
Contributions per Councillor
Longest Single Contributions
| # | Councillor | Meeting | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Frank Wilkie chaired this meeting | SPECIAL MEETING, 30 June 2025 | 11 min |
| 2 | Brian Stockwell | Special Meeting, 8 May 2025 | 9 min |
| 3 | Frank Wilkie chaired this meeting | Ordinary Meeting, 17 July 2025 | 8 min |
| 4 | Frank Wilkie chaired this meeting | Ordinary Meeting, 23 January 2025 | 8 min |
| 5 | Frank Wilkie chaired this meeting | Ordinary Meeting, 18 September 2025 | 8 min |
| 6 | Amelia Lorentson | Ordinary Meeting, 17 July 2025 | 8 min |
| 7 | Frank Wilkie | General Committee, 14 July 2025 | 7 min |
| 8 | Amelia Lorentson | SPECIAL MEETING, 30 June 2025 | 7 min |
| 9 | Nicola Wilson | SPECIAL MEETING, 30 June 2025 | 7 min |
| 10 | Karen Finzel | Ordinary Meeting, 18 December 2025 | 7 min |
Each link opens the exact spot in the meeting transcript.
Chamber Airtime Composition
Who does the talking in 2025: 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
66 public questions were put to Council across 10 meetings in 2025, from the minutes’ Public Question Time sections.
Most Frequent Questioners
- Pat Spicer ×12
- Rhea Den Braasem ×6
- Brian O'Connor ×6
- Alan Deering ×4
- Patricia Spicer ×4
- Debra Walz ×4
- David Phipps ×2
- Tony Wright ×2
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 2025.
Meetings
The meetings behind these numbers, by type and length.
By Meeting Type
| Meeting type | Held | Avg length | Longest |
|---|---|---|---|
| General Committee | 12 | 3h 41m | General Committee, 14 July 2025 (6h 25m) |
| Ordinary | 12 | 2h 45m | Ordinary Meeting, 23 January 2025 (6h 11m) |
| Planning & Environment | 11 | 1h 6m | Planning & Environment Committee Agenda, 12 August 2025 (2h 7m) |
| Services & Organisation | 11 | 48m | Services & Organisation Committee Agenda, 6 May 2025 (1h 59m) |
| Special | 5 | 58m | Special Meeting, 8 May 2025 (2h 7m) |
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 2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31.
