– Specific funding for investment ready projects in regional, rural and remote Australia.– Funding will be available across two streams ? infrastructure projects and community investments.– Information session scheduled in Cairns on 7th February 2017 Community groups and local councils are encourage to apply for funding under the Building Better Regions Fund, which is available…
– Sealing works are now complete on two of the four 2016 Peninsula Developmental Road projects– The works are part of the $260.5 million Cape York Region Package– Once all four projects are complete, the Cape York Region Package will have sealed over 248 kilometres of road, which equates to over 50 per cent of…
Col McKenzie (AMPTO), Russell Beer (Ports North) and Warren Entsch (MP for Leichhardt) welcome the increased capability that will come with the Venus II. (Image courtesy RRRC) THE Coalition Government is stepping up efforts to cull more coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish with a second boat. The Reef and Rainforest Research Centre (RRRC) in partnership with the…
DRONES are increasingly becoming a part of daily life, with companies and organisations across the globe already investing heavily in drone technology. Now, thanks to an innovative James Cook University program supported by the Australian Government, local high-school girls will have the opportunity to learn more about this rapidly-growing field. Leichhardt MP Warren Entsch has…
LEICHHARDT MP Warren Entsch has welcomed news that the Australian Government has increased its support for a program run by Cairns-based Reef and Rainforest Research Centre (RRRC), which is changing lives in the poverty-stricken Western Province region of Papua New Guinea. The Building Resilience in Treaty Villages (BRTV) pilot project is an innovative community development…
FEDERAL Member for Leichhardt, Warren Entsch has welcomed funding for Pandanus Park War Veterans Retreat for the restoration of the park’s memorial site. The grant has been awarded under the Australian Government’s Saluting Their Service grants program. “I’ve been a supporter of the Pandanus Park for many years and I know it plays an important…
CAIRNS and Aurukun will benefit from new community safety initiatives thanks to the Coalition Government providing financial support for two key Queensland Police-Citizens Youth Welfare (PCYC) programs. Minister for Justice Michael Keenan and Federal Member for Leichhardt Warren Entsch MP have announced that Queensland PCYC will receive $2,702,566 under Safer Streets Round Two. The funding…
Parliament’s Northern Australia Committee has commenced an Inquiry into Opportunities and Methods for Stimulating the Tourism Industry in Northern Australia. The Government’s White Paper on developing Northern Australia, released in June 2015 recognised tourism as an industry with ‘bright prospects in the North’ and that Northern Australia could ‘capitalise on its iconic locations, open spaces…
LEICHHARDT MP Warren Entsch has hit back at an ABC article which questions the effectiveness of the National Youth Mental Health Foundation’s headspace programme. Mr Entsch, a long-time advocate for mental health issues, is also the only MP in Australia who is the Independent Chair of a headspace. He regularly attends the headspace Cairns Consortium…
EVERY pre-schooler in Far North Queensland will have the opportunity to learn a foreign language with Leichhardt MP Warren Entsch announcing that applications for the popular Early Learning Languages Australia (ELLA) program are now open. Local preschools are encouraged to apply as the play-based app for devices like iPads, is rolled out nationally. “The Polyglots…