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BRIAN O'CONNOR QUESTIONS

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QUESTION 1

We are told that Noosa Shire is experiencing a housing shortage, but I wonder whether is extends beyond death?. The Tewantin Cemetery is not accepting any more prospective guests in repose and the council has given up land set aside for expansion of the Cooroy Cemetery for use as affordable housing for the living instead. At Pomona, the dead are buried beside the rubbish at the adjacent waste disposal facility. Given Noosa Shire's growing and ageing population, what current and future planning is the council undertaking to ensure sufficient land is reserved for burials and for niches containing cremated ashes, or even so-called 'natural' burial sites, now creeping into favour?

QUESTION 2

Noosa and Gympie councils have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that aims to explore efficiencies in waste management and potential cost-sharing arrangements across the two council area. Would this be a model for cooperation on possible development of a management model for establishing a regional cemetery in the hinterland serving a wider catchment area?