Chris Crewther (Dunkley, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Sunday, 4 March, was Clean Up Australia Day. Community groups all over Dunkley got involved to clean up our sunny natural landscape, from the beach to the bush. At least six different Clean Up Australia Day sites were registered for the 4th on the official website. I know other groups like schools and scouting groups run their own events on meeting nights. I was proud to join the Kananook Creek Association in their clean-up of banks of Kananook Creek and its surrounds, where some enterprising participants even brought their boat and tackled the rubbish from the water. I later joined the Friends of Langwarrin Outdoors and Waterways at Boggy Creek and Lloyd Park, with the 1st Langwarrin Scout Group, Peninsula Rotaract and my state colleague Neale Burgess. There was an enormous amount of rubbish picked up, as well as dumped goods including old bikes, desks, chairs, parts of couches and more, with 700 kilograms collected at the Langwarrin site that day—all accumulated since the last clean-up in October.

I want to thank each and every Dunkley resident who joined in a Clean Up Australia Day activity and those who are out there tirelessly, month after month, doing what they do without thanks or acknowledgement, for the love of our incredible environment. Clean Up Australia Day really recognises the need to ensure that we are not polluting our environment or contributing to local rubbish or dumped goods, and the need to look after our environment, which is very important.