2018-08-07 P&E Agenda - Attachment 1 to Item 3 - Noosa Biosphere Reserve 10 Year Periodic Review

                                                                   Noosa Biosphere Reserve - Periodic Review 2018




•        Engineering and business support services.

These industries align well with the NBR values and offer further scope for the application of technology
and innovation to help support more sustainable living. Noosa’s BR status can be leveraged further to
attract world-class talent and experienced leaders to develop, research and pilot projects that align with
the NBR status.
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The NSC has an impressive Waste Reduction and Recycling Plan 2016-2024               designed to reduce
waste and salvage more materials that can be re-used or up-cycled. The goal is a 55% reduction in
waste to landfill by 2024, set by the Queensland Government.
Council recently appointed Resource Recovery Australia to run its ‘tip shop’ at the Shire’s local waste
management facility. They will run ‘tinkerage’ workshops that will teach residents how to repair furniture,
bicycles and other common household items that normally find their way into landfill. Community
training and education programs will form a large part of the waste program in the NBR, leading to more
employment opportunities for many disadvantaged groups (including Indigenous people and those on
low incomes).
There is much scope for new green business ideas in the NBR. The NSC has demonstrated its
commitment to supporting new avenues for raising community awareness of ecological sustainability
and appropriate economic development in the Shire.

5.8      Changes in terms of cultural values (religious, historical, political, social, ethnological)
There have been few changes in cultural values over the past 10 years. In order to help preserve the
Shire’s heritage, NSC imposes a Heritage Levy on all rateable properties with funds used for a range of
heritage initiatives such as the library heritage collection (incl. print, newspapers, digital images, digital
resources, oral histories and online content) as well as a broad range of activities and works to maintain
and preserve heritage assets.
An example of use of this levy was the recent collaborative approach to restoration of the Cooroy
Memorial Hall where the community and Council joined forces to undertake essential works to allow the
hall to be utilized again by the community and ensure it returned to community ownership. The hall
forms an important part of the cultural heritage of the area having been built following World War 1 as a
memorial to local soldiers and to provide recreation facility for returned servicemen and the community.
In September 2017, Sunshine Coast-based councils along with the State Government celebrated 50
years since the Sunshine Coast region was officially named. The historic photographic displays and
other community arts exhibitions held around the Noosa region provided a unique community record of
the NBR’s development over this period.

Cultural heritage
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The traditional custodians of the land are the Kabi Kabi people who inhabited an area from as far
north as Fraser Island, south to Pumicestone Passage and west to the Conondale and Blackall Ranges.
The number of Indigenous people living in the Noosa area before settlement is unknown but early
accounts by explorers and journalists in the 1860s indicate that there were several hundred Indigenous
people living on the Noosa waterways. This number dropped significantly after European settlement as
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a result of illness and massacre. Early in the 20 century many of the remaining Indigenous people
were moved to the Cherbourg mission, but their resilience has ensured that their important connection
to the Biosphere Reserve is ongoing today. This connection is represented by a display at the entry of
the Noosa National Park that helps educate park visitors of the indigenous association with the local
landscape.
Many of the landscapes and places that are protected by the park have been part of the creation stories
of special importance to Aboriginal people. Further information on the role of the Kabi Kabi people in the
NBR is contained in Chapter 6.3 Traditional and Local Knowledge.




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   https://www.noosa.qld.gov.au/documents/40217326/40227890/Noosa%20Council%20Waste%20Reduction%20R
ecycling%20Plan%202016-2024.pdf
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     2017, State Library of Queensland, Indigenous Languages map,
      http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/resources/atsi/languages/indigenous-languages-map



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