# NoosaWatch

> Searchable primary-source archive of Noosa Shire Council (Queensland, Australia) meetings: full transcripts with speaker attribution, meeting insights, official council minutes, attendee lists, and subtitle video/audio clips. Independent — not affiliated with Noosa Shire Council.

## Core pages
- [Meeting index](https://noosawatch.com/): all transcribed meetings, newest first
- Meeting archive by year: [2026](https://noosawatch.com/meetings/2026), [2025](https://noosawatch.com/meetings/2025), [2024](https://noosawatch.com/meetings/2024), [2023](https://noosawatch.com/meetings/2023)
- [Search & topic directory](https://noosawatch.com/search): full-text search plus curated topic and councillor hub pages
- [Council analytics](https://noosawatch.com/analytics): speaking time, attendance, motions, per-councillor voting records, voting-alignment data and conflict-of-interest declarations, computed from the transcripts and official minutes; per-year pages at /analytics/{year}. Every figure links to the meeting page and official minutes it came from.
- [Voting records register](https://noosawatch.com/analytics/votes): every contested Noosa Council division on record, with named For/Against votes, grouped by year, each linked to the official minutes.
- [Notified motions register](https://noosawatch.com/analytics/notified-motions): every notified motion a Noosa councillor put on the agenda, with the motion text, the amendments moved on it, the recorded division and the meeting it was decided in.
- [Amendments register](https://noosawatch.com/analytics/amendments): every amendment moved in a Noosa Council meeting on record, who moved it and whether it carried, grouped by year, each linked to the official minutes.
- [Conflict of interest register](https://noosawatch.com/analytics/conflicts-of-interest): every formal conflict-of-interest declaration recorded in the official minutes, per councillor, with the stated reason verbatim.
- [Every meeting, one line each](https://noosawatch.com/llms-full.txt): machine-friendly index with dates and synopses
- [Sitemap](https://noosawatch.com/sitemap.xml)

## Page anatomy
- `/meeting/{id}` — one council meeting: full transcript (speaker-attributed, timestamped), meeting insight, official minutes text, attendees by role, plus video/audio clip tools. The complete text content is server-rendered inside a `<noscript>` block, so non-JS crawlers get everything.
- `/topic/{slug}` — every meeting discussing a curated topic (e.g. /topic/doonella-bridge).
- `/councillor/{slug}` — every meeting appearance by a mayor/councillor.
- `/meetings/{year}` — plain HTML list of a year's meetings.

## Conditions of use (binding)
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## Notes
- Updated within hours of each Noosa Shire Council meeting being published.
- Transcripts are produced by NoosaWatch's own transcription systems and may contain errors; official minutes are the authoritative record.
- Independent community project. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Noosa Shire Council. The underlying meetings, agendas and official minutes are the Council's material and remain subject to the Council's own terms.
- Contact: email@noosawatch.com