Maybe the cool, damp summer is a sign of what could well wash up all along the Sunshine Coast!

The Danksta still finds it hard to believe that in nine days time Noosa will be null and void – as will its neighbours Maroochy and Caloundra and many other councils around the Outsmarted State – and will have gone to meet its municipal maker.

What's that you say? Get over it! We're in the 21st century, Danksta, don't you know? All the rest is history – and we all know what the founder of Ford Motor Cars thought about that! History is bunk, Henry said, which is why we all find ourselves becoming components and parts all along the legislative assembly line of the new super-council.

Maybe the blurry, bleary weather has made it difficult for the Danksta to distinguish between Super Councils, Super Tuesdays and Super Bowls. Hey, we're not in the Kansas and Kentucky primaries any more! We're in Kin Kin and Kenilworth and Kawana!

Danksta finds it harder and harder to tell the difference between barracking for Barack, pillorying for Hilary, jobbing for Bob or going for Joe. All that superpower style of showmanship invites imitation at every level of politics, media, entertainment and sport.

Even local government politics in Australia is starting to resemble the all-American extravaganza of the US elections mixed with the US Superbowl! It's not just about winning the game any more, it's also about complicating the rules for all the other players and confusing and dazzling the spectator/voters all at once!

The Danksta deems that the super-council could be stretched to breaking point by the conflicting demands of its geographic size, multiple community expectations, high population and tourism growth, and the competing pressures of conservation versus development, centralised state planning, party politics and ethical questions of local governance that have been brought into sharp focus by the woeful goings on in Wollongong City Council.

Anyway, Noosa Council has its last meeting today, and celebrates its 98th birthday next Monday, several days prior to being quietly and quickly laid to a somewhat restless rest in a rather noisy peace. Archaeologists of future generations might be mystified by the contents of the Noosafied time capsule being buried near the Noosa Library this week.

The Danksta regards Noosa's historic persona as being that of a lifelong-serving, community-minded country woman who has grown wiser with age, having seen all the changes of the last century. Nanny Noosa was loath to admit her age but she certainly feels most strongly that she has been uprooted from her own home when she had many, many years of vigour and vitality ahead.

Meanwhile, it's come down the The Last Days of Chez Noosa (no, not the motel on David Low Way at Sunshine Beach)!

How much the place and, indeed, the whole Sunshine Coast, has kept growing in the last 40 years! The Danksta expects the pace of change to accelerate to full throttle now that Noosa has been neutered.

Let's hope that the people who live here and the people who will move here will find ways to make the Sunshine Coast even better until, sometime in the future, people will find it so special that they will feel compelled not to have to come here in endless wave breaks and keep crowding it out. That's the paradox of living in a popular destination!

Let's wish for the best possible candidates to win the election, and for a well-run council of innovation and integrity rather than a Super Spectacular Look At Me, Look At Me Showtime!

As Noosa and Caloundra and Maroochy each drink a last draught to themselves, what beckons for the brand new regional conglomerate we're supposed to call Chez Nous?

Hamish has two MySpace websites. On one he writes about poetry, writing, music and other interests, such as performing, reading, history and archaeology, while the other focuses on amalgamation and other local issues.