Residential aged care in the Torres Strait has taken a major step forward with the official opening today of a new, purpose-built building at Blue Care Star of the Sea Elders Village on Thursday Island. Up to 38 senior Indigenous people will receive specialist, culturally appropriate care in the new, air-conditioned building. There is also…
Families and visitors to Cairns can now board a multi-dimensional underwater journey, following today’s launch of the Sea Explorer 5D attraction at the Cairns Aquarium and Reef Research Centre. This $1.1 million investment is one of several project components of a $4.7 million project jointly funded by the federal government under the Regional Jobs and…
Golden Wattle is hitting the road to give people in Far North Queensland easy access to government services. Staff on board Golden Wattle have delivered Centrelink, Medicare and Child Support services to almost 140,000 customers since 2016. The two twenty-tonne trucks are run by the Department of Human Services and have travelled more than 800,000…
The federal government will help more young people with mental illness living in Cairns to enter the workforce with a package of increased support. Federal Leichhardt MP Warren Entsch today announced the Royal Flying Doctor Service would receive $585,000 in funding to assist them with the implementation of the highly-successful Individual Placement and Support Trial.…
Seven projects across Far North Queensland have been given the greenlight under Round 3 of the federal government’s highly successful Building Better Regions Fund. Federal Leichhardt MP Warren Entsch said the federal government’s $8.5 million investment across seven projects* will help grow local economies and build a strong future for our region. He said the…
The federal government will invest more than $22 million to deliver practical environmental projects, giving communities new opportunities to protect and care for their local environment. The Communities Environment Program will provide up to $150,000 to each Federal electorate in 2019-20 for community-led projects that deliver real environmental benefits. The program builds on the government’s…
Federal Leichhardt MP Warren Entsch says the federal government is sticking up for Far North Queensland sugar growers by taking India to the World Trade Organization. Mr Entsch said Far North Queensland sugar growers had enough to worry about without having cheap sugar dumped on the world market. “We want farmers here in Far North…
Far North Queensland community organisations will get help to reduce their power bills through the federal government’s $5 million Solar Communities program which is part of new Energy Efficient Communities Program. A $5 million Solar Communities Programme support grants of up to $12,500 for eligible community organisations to apply for funding for small-scale solar energy…
Federal Leichhardt MP Warren Entsch has welcomed recent Conus/CBC Staff Selection Regional Trend Labour Force report prepared by Pete Faulkner. Mr Entsch said the local figures for unemployment have been trending down for some time now, with plenty of progress being made just recently. “These improvements are linked to the government’s commitment to enabling and…
The federal government will provide free access to glucose monitoring devices that will save pregnant women, children and more adults in Far North Queensland living with type 1 diabetes up to $7,000 a year Federal Leichhardt MP Warren Entsch said the government’s investment over the next five years will assist many people in Cairns and…
