BRIAN O'CONNOR · Report

ORDINARY MEETING                                                              20 FEBRUARY 2025


8.1   BRIAN O'CONNOR




QUESTION 1
We are told that Noosa Shire is experiencing a housing shortage, but I wonder whether is extends
beyond death?. The Tewantin Cemetery is not accepting any more prospective guests in repose and
the council has given up land set aside for expansion of the Cooroy Cemetery for use as affordable
housing for the living instead. At Pomona, the dead are buried beside the rubbish at the adjacent
waste disposal facility. Given Noosa Shire's growing and ageing population, what current and future
planning is the council undertaking to ensure sufficient land is reserved for burials and for niches
containing cremated ashes, or even so-called 'natural' burial sites, now creeping into favour?

QUESTION 2
Noosa and Gympie councils have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that aims to explore
efficiencies in waste management and potential cost-sharing arrangements across the two council
area. Would this be a model for cooperation on possible development of a management model for
establishing a regional cemetery in the hinterland serving a wider catchment area?