Grants for rural property owners Now Open

Rural landowners within Division 5 can apply now for financial help to complete on-ground environment projects on their private property, via the Sunshine Coast Council’s Landholder Environment Grants.

Grants of up to $15,000 are available for projects like bush regeneration; reducing sediment loss on farms; control of environmental weeds; modifying nonboundary fencing to make it wildlife friendly; revegetation of degraded areas; and to establish vegetation corridors and buffer zones.

Please read the Landholder Environment Grant Guidelines at:

You www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/grants

It is necessary to submit you expression of interest before 14 August 2023.

Please keep an eye on my Facebook page for the latest Division 5 news and information at: www.facebook.com/winstonjohnstondivision5scc. We are less than two months out from Council’s Special Budget adoption meeting to determine budget outcomes for the Sunshine Coast. I’m hopeful we will see significant allocations of funds for our Division 5 projects. Save the date for June 22, 2023 and tune in to Council’s live stream.

POLITICAL COMMENT MADE BY Qld Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk

Following the resignation of WA Premier, Mark McGowan because he was burnt out + tired!

Ms Palaszczuk was asked – given she has served longer as Queensland Premier and also went through the Covid pandemic as leader –would continue, she said “I still have the energy”.