Council decisions
Showing: Last 12 months · 6 Nov 2025 to 6 Nov 2026
See the patterns behind Council decisions: who votes together, who seconds motions and which proposals succeed. Browse individual votes in All Votes →
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Showing Last 12 months (6 Nov 2025 to 6 Nov 2026).
Voting Records
Named For and Against votes from the official minutes over the past 12 months: how councillors vote, together and apart.
“Recorded divisions” means votes with councillors’ names recorded For or Against. This includes unanimous votes and does not mean councillors disagreed or that a formal division was requested. A split vote has at least one recorded vote on each side.
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 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 over the past 12 months.
Who Seconds Whom
Most Frequent Pairings
Jessica Phillips seconded motions moved by 
Amelia Lorentson ×53
Tom Wegener seconded motions moved by 
Frank Wilkie ×31
Karen Finzel seconded motions moved by Frank Wilkie ×22- Tom Wegener seconded motions moved by
Brian Stockwell ×21 
Nicola Wilson seconded motions moved by Frank Wilkie ×20- Karen Finzel seconded motions moved by Amelia Lorentson ×20
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.
Notified Motions
How many notified motions each councillor put on the agenda over the past 12 months (items councillors raise themselves, not officer reports).
10 notified agenda items · 9 formally moved. Agenda entries withdrawn before being moved are shown separately below; they do not count as motions moved or votes.
Notified agenda items not formally moved
- Item 10.1: State Government Advocacy on a Queensland Pilot to Regulate Data Centres - Location, Energy Use and Treated Wastewater Cooling - and State Funding
Withdrawn before being moved
Cr Lorentson withdrew the Notified Motion.
Read the official minutes · 17 September 2026
Notified Motions per Councillor
Every Notified Motion
| Councillor | Notice | Outcome | Meeting |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amelia Lorentson | Strengthening Small Business Consultation on Major Council Works | Carried | 20 August 2026 meeting · minutes |
| Amelia Lorentson | Main Beach Reserve Car Park – Review of Main Beach Drop-Off Zone Resolution | Lost | 20 August 2026 meeting · minutes |
| Karen Finzel | Divisional Boundary Review | Carried | 18 June 2026 meeting · minutes |
| Amelia Lorentson | Advocating for Urgent Action on Burgess Creek Erosion | Carried | 16 April 2026 meeting · minutes |
| Amelia Lorentson | Protecting First Point, Noosa Heads | Carried | 19 February 2026 meeting · minutes |
| Amelia Lorentson | Three-Month Trial of Alternate Shark Mitigation Measures During Southern Whale Migration | Carried | 22 January 2026 meeting · minutes |
| Jessica Phillips | Independent Review of Community Surveys | Carried | 22 January 2026 meeting · minutes |
| 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 |
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 9 recorded under the "Notified Motions" section of the minutes over the past 12 months, 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.
Motions
Which councillors move and second the formal motions recorded in the official minutes over the past 12 months, and how they fare.
Moved and Seconded
| Councillor | Moved | Seconded | Carried | Lost | Success as mover |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amelia Lorentson | 122 | 56 | 92 | 21 | 81% |
| Frank Wilkie | 110 | 50 | 94 | 3 | 97% |
| Brian Stockwell | 69 | 29 | 54 | 7 | 89% |
| Karen Finzel | 59 | 84 | 54 | 2 | 96% |
| Jessica Phillips | 49 | 100 | 43 | 2 | 96% |
| Nicola Wilson | 47 | 74 | 43 | 2 | 96% |
| Tom Wegener | 32 | 86 | 28 | 1 | 97% |
488 motions recorded: 408 carried, 38 lost, 4 withdrawn, 3 lapsed, 35 superseded by amendment. 357 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.
- 15 October 2026: "Addition of Item I. that reads: I. Request that ZEN Inc update Attachment 7 (Annual Report), Section 9 (Methods of commu…" was lost on the casting vote of the chair (meeting · minutes)
- 15 October 2026: "That Council defer the matter (Item 12.1) to the November 2026 Ordinary Meeting for the purpose of obtaining additional …" was lost on the casting vote of the chair (meeting · minutes)
- 15 October 2026: "That Council A. Note the report by the Sustainability and Climate Change Officer to the General Committee Meeting dated …" was carried on the casting vote of the chair (meeting · minutes)
- 11 August 2026: "That Item A be added to read: A. That Council prepare a scoped, proportionate Land Management Plan for the Christmas ove…" was lost on the casting vote of the chair (meeting · minutes)
- 9 June 2026: "That Council A. Note the report by the Chief Executive Officer to the General Committee dated 13 April 2026 and this Fur…" was carried on the casting vote of the chair (meeting · minutes)
- 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)
Conflicts of Interest →
COI Declarations per Councillor
Amelia Lorentson4 conflicts of interest declared4 declarations in the minutes
Brian Stockwell4 conflicts of interest declared4 declarations in the minutes
Frank Wilkie3 conflicts of interest declared5 declarations in the minutes
Nicola Wilson3 conflicts of interest declared3 declarations in the minutes
Jessica Phillips2 conflicts of interest declared5 declarations in the minutes
Karen Finzel0 conflicts of interest declared
Tom Wegener0 conflicts of interest 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.
Donations and Gifts →
Donations each councillor received and what they spent for the 2024 election, as reported to the Electoral Commission of Queensland, and the gifts they declare in their registers of interests.
Election donations received, 2024 election
Every donation and what each campaign cost →
Gifts declared in the registers of interests
Transparency
Closed sessions, petitions and deputations recorded in the official minutes over the past 12 months.
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. Attendance and apologies count the Ordinary, General Committee and Special meetings every councillor is expected to attend; chairing and every other figure count all meeting types.
- 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. The agenda-item total also includes notices not formally moved. Where the minutes explicitly record a withdrawal before movement, it is shown separately and is not credited to a councillor as a motion moved or counted as a vote.
Figures for this view cover 2025-11-06 to 2026-11-06.