2025 Lgaq Conference - Noosa Council Motions Carried

Karen Finzel7:03

Thank you. Yeah, I think it's all been said. I'd like to just iterate, you know, our thanks for the outgoing Chair, Mr. Timothy Cronin and a warm welcome to Christine and I'm sure she'll be a great seat at the table to bring her expertise and thank you Jonci to the report. We'll take it to the vote. All in favour? That's and Councillor Jess online. Thank you. Jonci and Council note. We're moving through to agenda item number eight, reports for noting by the committee. Moving into item 8.1 2025 LGAQ conference Noosa Council motions carried and we're looking to the report writer Mr Larry Sengstock for a brief overview.

Okay so as we know the LGAQ conference calls for motions from all 77 councils to be presented or to be reviewed and then presented at the LGAQ conference or LGAQ conference which was only last month. Noosa Council, after a whole lot of deliberation put forward four very good what we believe is very good and we now know they were very good because I voted through by the by all 77 councils four motions those four motions in brief were investment in youth responsive preventative and early intervention programs increased state government investment in communities dispute resolution urgent action on plastic pollution call for acceleration of the national plastics plan and Roadmap and a trial of non-lethal shark mitigation measures during whale migration period all of those were carried unanimously almost sorry carry carried um I think it's the majority, I'm sorry I don't have any members, but it's with the majority and strong majority um so just looking to make the point of there was a strong majority of um of support um so I'm just putting this to the Councillor as a for noting as a recommended report that we uh the four motions that we uh put forward to the rest of the councils in Queensland were all voted with support and that's a great mark for Noosa and I think it's something that we put a lot of work and effort and thought into and um they were well well received.

Frank Wilkie9:50

Yes well as the CEO said and all four motions were approved by the conference. There were 77 councils present it doesn't mean all of them supported the motions but there was strong support for all of them there was actually even no debate on any of these four it was a very efficient way that the conference handled they were only debated if there was any objection to any of the motions and there was none to the four Noosa Council motions so they go through to the LGAQ policy executive and they'll be advocating to the higher levels of government for those the objectives outlined in each of those motions and hopefully they'll translate into legislative change and real action.

Amelia Lorentson13:35

Just a question to the CEO. We spoke about this earlier today, Larry. Just wondering whether there is an opportunity for Council to write to the relevant state minister. This is in relation to one of the motions. Number. 92 trial of non-lethal shark mitigation measures during whale migration period, whether there is an opportunity for Council to write to the relevant state minister to ask the question whether. The minister will reconsider his position given the near unanimous support for the motion at the 2025 LGAQ conference. I've understood that post Mayoral minute, the minister and stood quite firm in their position. I'm just wondering whether we can maybe follow it up and just ask, has there been a shift in that position? Or what is his feedback in response to the near unanimous support? And whether there's also opportunity for Noosa Council to reach out to Gympie Council and Sunshine Coast Council, both who've already expressed interest in collaborating, whether there's opportunity again as Noosa Council for us to take a lead alongside LGAQ in just keeping the momentum going in terms of advocating for a trial of innovation and modern mitigation. Um modern mitigation measures during or replacement of shark nets during the whale migration period I'm happy to answer that and I'm happy to write again on those lines yeah.