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Our Lil is in the Logies! By Phil Jarratt
Lilliana Bowrey at home in Noosa.
Picture: FENNA DE KING
Noosa surf queen and blossoming TV star Lilliana Bowrey has been nominated for a Logie in the prestigious Graham Kennedy award for most popular new talent. The 18-year-old former Sunshine Beach High student and winner of multiple junior titles in longboard and shortboard events, plus ambassador for the Noosa World Surfing Reserve, recently finished filming of the second season of the Netflix hit series Surviving Summer, due to go to air next summer. With no previous acting experience, Lil, the sweetheart of the Noosa surf festival in her longboarding years, was one of several Noosa surf girls talent-spotted to audition for the first season of the 10-part teen drama series, prior to production in 2021 by Werner Film Productions. Continued page 4
Winning on waste “Without infrastructure you can’t do anything,” Noosa Council’s Waste and Environmental Health Manager Kyrone Dodd booms down the phone line, sounding like a man who has been fighting the budget wars for longer than he’d hoped. But a couple of days later, clad in a bright and cheery purple aloha shirt (in readiness for an end-of-financial-year team-building afternoon over barefoot bowls) and supported by his core waste team of education and sustainability officer Peita Otterbach and project officer Jo Ferris, Kyrone is in a more expansive and explanatory mood. “It’s very difficult to change behaviours towards waste without investing first in infrastructure,” he says. “That’s particularly so for food waste, the worst element of waste because of its methane emissions, for which dealing with it requires a specific type of infrastructure, and it’s pretty much in its infancy in Queensland. We need to get that infra-
structure built so we can get on with the job.” Which in part explains the recently-completed summary of council’s waste survey, conducted over February and March, which will inform the content of the Noosa Waste Strategy, expected to be delivered by the end of the calendar year. The cost of fixing our waste problems is significant and ongoing – just two weeks ago Noosa Today reported on council approval of $227,000 for a polystyrene compaction unit – and the community needs to understand the necessity for it to get behind it. But the survey results are also significant in what they reveal about how much we’ve already learnt in a comparatively short term, which is good, however there is still so much to learn! In fact the subject of waste is so vast and overwhelming that it can be downright depressing, which is why if anyone in the Pelican Street chambers deserves to put on a silly shirt and enjoy a game of bowls, it’s the waste department. The waste survey attracted 623 submis-
sions, over 20 per cent more than the anticipated sample size for Noosa’s population, indicating a growing concern over the complex waste problem, and while 78 per cent of respondents thought that removing litter from our waterways was the most pressing problem – the shop window pollution you can see – 85 per cent expressed concern about organic compostable material currently going into landfill, the elephant in the room, or more or less out of sight (for the time being) on the outskirts of town. Jo Ferris, the long-time council project officer who had most to do with the designing of the survey, told Noosa Today: “The waste survey set out to give us an understanding of what was important to the community, what their values are in relation to these issues. We need to understand what will be acceptable to them, and the results clearly showed that our community is well advanced in accepting what needs to be done. I think generally it gave us the green light to move forward. Taking per-
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sonal responsibility for the fight against waste came through strongly.” Among its many interesting findings, the waste survey revealed these key points: 72 per cent supported or strongly supported diverting food waste from the landfill general waste bin (red lid) 63 per cent reduce their personal waste by choosing products with minimal packaging 53 per cent compost their organic waste 58 per cent said their recycling bin (yellow lid) was usually full or overflowing by pickup day while 45 per cent said their organic waste bin (lime lid) was usually full or overflowing, but only 31.5 per cent said the same of their general waste (red lid) bin. 96 per cent were confident they knew what should go in the landfill bin and 91 per cent for the recycle bin, while 93 per cent said they were extremely or quite careful about putting their waste in the right bin. Continued page 5
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