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Sunshine Business Association is looking to reward locals for getting vaccinated. The association will run an eight-week promotion, giving away $4000 worth of gift vouchers to spend at local shops. People can take part by sharing their vaccine photos via the Love Sunshine Businesses Facebook and Instagram pages. Ten randomly selected winners each week will receive a $50 voucher. SBA president Vu Du said the association wants businesses and retail to open up again, but to do that, everyone needs to be vaccinated. “Brimbank is one of the lowest vaccinated areas in the state and we want to help change that and reward our customers when they bravely get fully vaccinated,” he said. “We have had to cancel many events this year due to lockdowns such as the Sunshine Lantern Festival and the Sunshine Halloween Street Party, events that we stage for the community to visit Sunshine and enjoy our businesses’ hospitality. “To get back to what we love doing again we need to bite the bullet and get the jab now.” Details: search ‘loveSunshineBiz.Vic’ on Facebook and Instagram.
Fears for grasslands By Tara Murray Supporters of the Solomon Heights grasslands fear the construction of the Melbourne Airport Rail Link will impact on the area’s flora and fauna. The rail link will likely be built to the north-west of the existing rail line, which is next to the grasslands. While the route for the airport rail link is still in the consultation stage, Grassy Plains Network facilitator Adrian Marshall said the group believed it would be constructed off-site on land next to where the rail link would meet
the escapement of Solomon Heights. He said there were seven or eight grasslands that would be affected by the construction of the airport rail link. Mr Marshall said a number of burial sites had been found along the Maribyrnong River, adding that there’s an assumption the entire Solomon Heights escapement is culturally significant.’ The scope of the building works is going to be huge,” he said. “There could be temporary impacts on Kangaroos not going to the area for a couple of years.
“There will be light and sound pollution which will disrupt the fauna.” The land at Solomon Heights has been vacant since it was created as a residential subdivision in 1920s and rezoned to industrial in the 1940s. Victoria University honorary research fellow in ecology, Megan O’Shea said the grasslands were home to a number of species of national environmental significance. She said the grasslands are home to 29.5 hectares of Natural Temperate Grassland of the Victorian Volcanic Plain, which is critically endangered; 436 critically endangered Spiny
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Rice-flower plants; endangered striped legless lizards; and are a habitat of the Golden Sun Moth. She said it was important that the environment of those animals wasn’t disturbed. “It is really good quality grassland and it’s near the top tier of grasslands,” she said. “We need to look after them and keep them in that high quality category as they’re becoming increasingly rare. “It’s also the only place in Sunshine you can see eastern grey kangaroos, it’s part of an important corridor.”
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