A plan to provide urgent relief to Batemans Bay residents suffering under the impact of flying foxes was announced today by Minister for Environment Greg Hunt, and Member for Gilmore Ann Sudmalis. The five-point plan will free the Eurobodalla Shire Council to take urgent non-lethal action to disperse the town’s flying fox colony, while providing…
A re-elected Coalition Government will deliver a new Green Army project for Pambula Wetlands. The Green Army provides opportunities for young Australians aged 17-24 years to gain training and experience which will assist them in the future to find jobs, while generating real benefits for the local environment. The project will: • Rejuvenate the Pambula…
A re-elected Coalition Government will deliver a new Green Army project to help the recovery of the Swan and Canning Rivers. The Green Army provides opportunities for young Australians aged 17-24 years to gain training and experience which will assist them in the future to find jobs, while generating real benefits for the local environment.…
Adam Bandt has let the cat out of the bag. He says of a Labor-Greens Alliance that “dreams do come true”. That dream is a nightmare as Australia discovered under Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd. You can't trust Labor and you can't trust Bill Shorten. They would do a deal with the greens in a…
A re-elected Coalition Government will deliver a new Green Army project for Fremantle to protect local threatened species and local wetlands. The Green Army provides opportunities for young Australians aged 17-24 years to gain training and experience which will assist them in the future to find jobs, while generating real benefits for the local environment.…
Fremantle’s heritage will be better preserved and displayed thanks to new funding announced today by Environment Minister Greg Hunt and Liberal candidate for Fremantle Sherry Sufi. Commonwealth heritage grants totalling $133,000 will go to the former Fremantle Prison – the most extensive convict-built prison in Australia and WA’s only world heritage-listed building – and the…
A re-elected Coalition Government will deliver two new Green Army projects – one in Point Lonsdale and one in Queenscliff. The Green Army provides opportunities for young Australians aged 17-24 years to gain training and experience which will assist them in the future to find jobs, while generating real benefits for the local environment. The…
Local organisations in the Surf Coast Shire are the latest beneficiary of the Coalition’s commitment to boost renewable energy in our communities with seven new solar projects soon to be rolled out. Minister for the Environment Greg Hunt and Federal Member for Corangamite Sarah Henderson, today announced that seven community groups will share more than…
Funding of $743,900 will help restore and improve coastlines throughout Corangamite and the surf coast including in the communities of Jan Juc, Anglesea, Airey’s Inlet, Ocean Grove and St Leonards. The Corangamite Catchment Management Authority, under the Australian Government’s National Landcare Programme, will support local groups and land managers with grants aimed at achieving an…
The Mornington Peninsula and Western Port region is hosting ten projects under Round Four of the Coalition Government’s Green Army programme. Flinders MP and Environment Minister Greg Hunt said the ten local projects across the Dunkley and Flinders electorates would benefit the habitats of our native species for years to come. “I was delighted to…