"People just want a different style of government."
How-to-vote cards normally consigned to the rubbish bin on election days were instead being kept as a memento of the historic occasion as residents swamped 17 polling booths across the former Noosa Shire area, with "Yes Vote" volunteers out numbering their "No" rivals 10 to one.
Cards handed out directly countered Queensland Treasury Corporation estimates that splitting from Sunshine Coast Council would cost an extra $260 per ratepayer in the first year and an extra $142 per year thereafter.
More than one quarter of the 76,183 voters to have a say had cast their vote across the four former shire areas before the polls opened at 9am yesterday, with pre-polling proving popular.
Local Government Minister David Crisafulli said transition committees and interim CEOs would be in place in April with new elections to be held towards the end of the year.
How-to-vote cards normally consigned to the rubbish bin on election days were instead being kept as a memento of the historic occasion as residents swamped 17 polling booths across the former Noosa Shire area, with "Yes Vote" volunteers out numbering their "No" rivals 10 to one.
Cards handed out directly countered Queensland Treasury Corporation estimates that splitting from Sunshine Coast Council would cost an extra $260 per ratepayer in the first year and an extra $142 per year thereafter.
More than one quarter of the 76,183 voters to have a say had cast their vote across the four former shire areas before the polls opened at 9am yesterday, with pre-polling proving popular.
Local Government Minister David Crisafulli said transition committees and interim CEOs would be in place in April with new elections to be held towards the end of the year.
