Alicia Payne (Canberra, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Last Thursday night Landcare ACT met at Wildbark in Mulligans Flat for the 2024 ACT Landcare Awards. Established by Bob Hawke in 1989, Landcare and its dedicated army of volunteers have taken care of our unique natural environment for 35 years. From removing weeds and pollutants to stabilising river banks and planning native species, the work of Landcare is critical to protecting the environment for generations to come.

Today I want to congratulate all of those who won an award and those who were nominated. The winners this year include ACT Venturer Scouts, who won the Woolworths Junior Landcare Award; Zoe McMahon winner of the NextGen Landcare Award; Antony Cory, winner of the ACT Government Citizen Science Award; Sarah Sharp, winner of the Women in Landcare Award; Bradley Bell and the Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations, winners of the First Nations Landcare Collaboration Award; Callum Brae, winner of the Australian Government Sustainable Agriculture Landcare Award; Bush on the Boundary, winner of the Australian Government Community Partnerships Landcare Award; Vera Kurz, winner of the Australian Government Individual Landcare Award and the Climate Factory, highly commended in the Australian Government Climate Innovation Award. I congratulate you all again and thank you for the tireless work you do to protect our environment—work that many are not aware volunteers are doing to protect our precious bush capital.