Funding boost for Fremantle’s heritage sites

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…

National Landcare grants start to flow across Corangamite

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…

Coalition’s Climate Change policy delivers major benefits for the Great Barrier Reef

The Turnbull Government’s Emissions Reduction Fund is helping Australia play its part in tackling climate change while also delivering significant environmental co-benefits for the Great Barrier Reef. In what is a strong endorsement by Labor of the Coalition’s climate change policy, the Queensland Labor Government has formed a partnership with GreenCollar to take advantage of…

Coalition to deliver new Green Army projects for Point Lonsdale Lighthouse Reserve and Queenscliff front beach

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…