Scott Buchholz (Wright, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I rise to compliment the government on its vision and its direction—in particular its investment into the environment via the Green Army projects. I have no less than nine Green Army groups run throughout my area run by the PCYC groups of the Scenic Rim Council. I recently had the opportunity to visit a particular group in the community of Canungra. They had been working in a creek bank. You can envisage grass well and truly over the top of head, inundated with a quite aggressive weed similar to a rubber vine which is a Madeira. No chemical can break this down; it has to be pulled out by hand. With the recent floods that we have had through our area, it was quite an eyesore. I compliment all of the participants of the Green Army for the amazing transformation that they have done in that creek bed in clearing it and putting steps down for a walk way. It is truly amazing. But no more an amazing transformation has been the personalities of those young people and the contribution they have made to the community. I would like to share worldwide. with the House there names: Anthony Hope, Locklen Robinson, Ridge McKay, Graham Cole-Waters, Natalie Page, Alison Neil, Travis Bryman-Mimica, Kerwin Malone, Jackson McCormick, Hayden Schwarz, Katisha Cordingley, Kieran Rice, Sherece Jackson, Stevie Lee Robinson and Sean McKay. To each of them, our community owes them a debt. (Time expired)