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Meet and Greet with Tom Sharp at Cauldron Distillery
đź“… Saturday 24 Feb
⌚ 4.30-6pm
đź“Ť Cauldron Distillery Tamborine Mtn
Meet the candidates | Scenic Rim 2024
đź“… Saturday 24 Feb
⌚ 2-4pm
đź“Ť Tamborine Memorial Hall
Lions Lunch helps thank Volunteers
Almost one month after the Christmas devastation on the Mountain, a group of exhausted but still positiv...
The Gods are power crazy
Scenic Rim Regional Council is concerned by allegations that groups within the community are spreading s...
Eve Curtis – author, researcher, editor, environmentalist consultant, lover of nature and guardian of the mountain
Eve Curtis turned 95 on 15th September this year. Eve has spent her entire life in service to Tamborine M...
Eve Curtis, Tamborine Mountain Progress Associationand the Beaudesert Pig and Calf Saleyards
Dear reader,
Firstly, I would like to acknowledge Eve Curtis for publicly endorsing my bid for Mayor of th...
A Night to Remember: the Blue Moon Event on Tamborine Mountain
Now a highlight on Tamborine Mountain community’s social calendar, the Blue Moon Event is not to be miss...
SHORT AND SHARP - BANG THE TABLE
Dear Reader,
A number of you have kindly reached out over the last months asking what has happened to my co...
SRRC & OIA Bounty Hunters Take a Scalp
Major win for the SRRC and the OIA as they have nailed former Councillor Nigel Waistell’s hide to the wall with...
SRRC ignores its own Planning Scheme
Being for property development or against is not the issue that is of concern.
What is at the heart of this matte...
SHARP COMMENT 17 - IF YOU CAN’T GOVERN YOURSELVES, HOW CAN YOU GOVERN THE REGION?
Hearing is believing and the Scenic Rim Regional Council Ordinary Meeting held on 13 April needs to be heard to be be...
SHARP COMMENT 16 - An open Letter to Cr Jeff McConnell
Dear Jeff,
I note with curiosity your councillor comments in the Scenic News edition, dated 25 March 20...
SHARP COMMENT 15 - At the Scenic Rim Regional Council Ordinary Meeting 9 March
At the Scenic Rim Regional Council Ordinary Meeting 9 March Cr Greg Christensen tabled a Mayoral Minute t...
SHARP COMMENT 14 - The Scenic Rim Council Ordinary Meeting on 23 February
The Scenic Rim Council Ordinary Meeting on 23 February addressed the 2020-2021 Infrastructure Capital Works ...
SHARP COMMENT 13 - The Mayor, Councillor Christensen, along with Councillors West, McConnell, and Enright, has voted down a motion proposed by Cr Swanborough
The Mayor, Councillor Christensen, along with Councillors West, McConnell, and Enright, has voted down a ...
SHARP COMMENT 12 - The Scenic Rim Regional Council meeting of 19 January
The Scenic Rim Regional Council meeting of 19 January and the accompanying minutes of that meeting make fo...
SHARP COMMENT 11 - Scenic Rim Regional Council has stepped on another land mine
Scenic Rim Regional Council has stepped on another land mine, one they laid themselves, that has blown up in t...
SHARP COMMENT 10 - The Scenic Rim Regional Council 14 December meeting agenda
The Scenic Rim Regional Council 14 December meeting agenda contained a report from the executive to councill...
SHARP COMMENT 9 - Happy New Year
Happy New Year to one and all and here’s hoping for a less bumpy ride in 2021.
It has been brought to ...
SHARP COMMENT 8 - TOXIC CULTURE, WOEFUL LEADERSHIP, CLANDESTINE BEHAVIOUR ON DISPLAY
Put simply, there is not enough space to chronicle the weekly injustices that have been handed out to thi...
SHARP COMMENT 7 - For the people
The SRRC planned town revitalisation program for Beaudesert has now well and truly been exposed as a fl...
SHARP COMMENT 6 - Carrying on up the Scenic Pass
The Scenic Rim Regional Council Ordinary Meeting held on 3 August was a sample of British comedies best. ...
SHARP COMMENT 5 - PERPETUATING THE MYTH
Since the formation of Scenic Rim Regional Council in 2008 various councillors, some past and some prese...
SHARP COMMENT 4 - A lot of you will recall the Queensland racketeering game known as “The Joke”
A lot of you will recall the Queensland racketeering game known as “The Joke” that went unabated during...
SHARP COMMENT 3 - WILL ALL OF THIS MONEY, MONEY, MONEY MAKE SCENIC RIM DANCE?
On top of the previously announced $1.5 million in tourism recovery grants comes a $650 million boost for b...
SHARP COMMENT 2 - ONE FARM, IN A BOX, FITS ALL
Another outburst and again another apology from the Mayor. Council’s leadership style came to the fore at SRRC’...
SHARP COMMENT 1 - We are in the midst of a global crisis
We are in the midst of a global crisis and in managing it our global leaders have rightly or wrongly thrust upon us...