People in the chamber
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Showing Last 12 months (2025-09-09 to 2026-09-09).
Speaking Time
Share of Speaking Time
- Amelia Lorentson28.7%
- Frank Wilkie20.7%
- Brian Stockwell17.7%
- Jessica Phillips12.3%
- Karen Finzel10.9%
- Nicola Wilson6.1%
- Tom Wegener3.6%
Total Speaking Time
Most Vocal On
The hot topics each councillor speaks on most over the past 12 months.
Most Vocal On
Amelia LorentsonConsultation Point of Order DMP
Frank WilkieDMP Mayoral Minute Congestion Tax
Brian StockwellPoint of Order DMP Land Use
Jessica PhillipsDMP Consultation Car Loop
Nicola WilsonConsultation DMP Tourism Noosa
Tom WegenerDMP Consultation Car Loop
Karen FinzelDoonella Bridge Invitation To The State Noosa River
Pet Phrases & Platitudes
The phrases we keep an ear on in the chamber, counted across councillor speech in the meeting transcripts over the past 12 months. Staff and public speakers are not counted.
“Point of order”
63 mentions across all councillors over the past 12 months
| Amelia Lorentson | ×24 |
| Brian Stockwell | ×23 |
| Frank Wilkie | ×7 |
| Jessica Phillips | ×4 |
| Karen Finzel | ×3 |
| Nicola Wilson | ×2 |
| Tom Wegener | ×0 |
“Community”
1,692 mentions across all councillors over the past 12 months
| Amelia Lorentson | ×511 |
| Karen Finzel | ×296 |
| Frank Wilkie | ×281 |
| Jessica Phillips | ×276 |
| Brian Stockwell | ×203 |
| Nicola Wilson | ×101 |
| Tom Wegener | ×24 |
“I will”
206 mentions across all councillors over the past 12 months
| Amelia Lorentson | ×53 |
| Jessica Phillips | ×44 |
| Brian Stockwell | ×41 |
| Frank Wilkie | ×25 |
| Nicola Wilson | ×23 |
| Karen Finzel | ×16 |
| Tom Wegener | ×4 |
“STA”
14 mentions across all councillors over the past 12 months
| Frank Wilkie | ×4 |
| Amelia Lorentson | ×3 |
| Nicola Wilson | ×3 |
| Jessica Phillips | ×2 |
| Brian Stockwell | ×1 |
| Tom Wegener | ×1 |
| Karen Finzel | ×0 |
Attendance
Meetings each councillor attended over the past 12 months, from the official attendance record in each meeting's minutes.
Attendance Record
| Councillor | Attendance | Apologies | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amelia Lorentson | Present 13 of 13 | 0 apologies | 100% |
| Karen Finzel | Present 13 of 13 | 0 apologies | 100% |
| Nicola Wilson | Present 13 of 14 | 1 apology | 93% |
| Jessica Phillips | Present 12 of 13 | 1 apology | 92% |
| Frank Wilkie | Present 13 of 15 | 2 apologies | 87% |
| Tom Wegener | Present 13 of 15 | 2 apologies | 87% |
| Brian Stockwell | Present 12 of 14 | 2 apologies | 86% |
Chairing
Who chaired the meetings over the past 12 months. The chair runs proceedings and speaks between every item.
Meetings Chaired
Contributions
How many times each councillor spoke over the past 12 months, and the longest single contributions.
Contributions per Councillor
Longest Single Contributions
| # | Councillor | Meeting | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amelia Lorentson | Special Meeting, 23 June 2026 | 10 min |
| 2 | Amelia Lorentson | General Committee Meeting, 7 July 2026 | 9 min |
| 3 | Amelia Lorentson | Ordinary Meeting, 22 January 2026 | 9 min |
| 4 | Jessica Phillips | Special Meeting, 23 June 2026 | 8 min |
| 5 | Amelia Lorentson | Ordinary Meeting, 19 February 2026 | 8 min |
| 6 | Frank Wilkie chaired this meeting | Ordinary Meeting, 16 July 2026 | 8 min |
| 7 | Amelia Lorentson | General Committee Meeting, 11 August 2026 | 8 min |
| 8 | Frank Wilkie chaired this meeting | Ordinary Meeting, 18 September 2025 | 8 min |
| 9 | Amelia Lorentson | General Committee Meeting, 16 February 2026 | 7 min |
| 10 | Frank Wilkie chaired this meeting | Special Meeting, 23 June 2026 | 7 min |
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Chamber Airtime Composition
Who does the talking over the past 12 months: 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
41 public questions were put to Council across 9 meetings over the past 12 months, from the minutes’ Public Question Time sections.
Most Frequent Questioners
- Pat Spicer ×10
- Brian O'Connor ×4
- Rhea Den Braasem ×4
- Alan Deering ×4
- Andy Taylor ×2
- John Spencer ×2
- 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.
Hot Topics
Which of the tracked topics saw the most discussion over the past 12 months.
Segments per Hot Topic
Meetings
The meetings behind these numbers, by type and length.
By Meeting Type
| Meeting type | Held | Avg length | Longest |
|---|---|---|---|
| General Committee | 13 | 3h 30m | General Committee Meeting, 11 August 2026 (7h 13m) |
| Ordinary | 12 | 3h 16m | Ordinary Meeting, 16 July 2026 (6h 34m) |
| Services & Organisation | 7 | 55m | Services & Organisation Committee Meeting, 10 February 2026 (1h 22m) |
| Planning & Environment | 7 | 1h 3m | Planning & Environment Committee Meeting, 10 February 2026 (1h 52m) |
| Special | 2 | 53m | Special Meeting, 23 June 2026 (1h 20m) |
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 2025-09-09 to 2026-09-09.