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Wide Bay/Burnett/Fraser Coast
2024–2025 Regional Community Forums
Expressions of interest for 2024–2025 Regional Community Forum membership were open from 6 November to 1 December 2023.
We will announce new 2024–2025 Regional Community Forum members in each of the seven regions in early 2024.
Forums provide community members with the opportunity to have a voice to government and partner with government and other stakeholders to work toward resolving some of our regional issues. Forums can really add value to the wonderful work already being undertaken in our communities. Tanya Stevenson – Wide Bay/Burnett/Fraser Coast Regional Community Forum member
Hear from Forum members
Hear from 2022–2023 Regional Community Forum members about how getting involved creates real impact for your community. Forum members come from diverse places and backgrounds, ages and experiences but they work together for their common goal of making a difference in their region.
About the region
More than 302,000 people populate the Wide Bay/Burnett/Fraser Coast region which covers more than 48,502 square kilometres of Queensland.
The region is home to the largest Queensland population outside of the South East corner and has a widely dispersed settlement pattern made up of diverse communities.
It stretches from the fertile soils of the Burnett to the beautiful waters at the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef.
The region is made up of coastal and inland towns including Bundaberg, Gympie, Hervey Bay, Kingaroy and Maryborough which are complemented by smaller rural, seaside and historical settlements including Cherbourg, Childers, Gayndah, Kilkivan and Tin Can Bay.
