World Environment Day
Mr WAKELING (Ferntree Gully) (09:57): I was delighted to join with First Friends of Dandenong Creek, the Rotary clubs of Ferntree Gully and Bayswater, the Lions Club of Wantirna plus local guides with Knox City Council’s bushland team to help plant over 4000 indigenous plants in Bayswater to recognise the importance of World Environment Day. We have some outstanding environment groups across the City of Knox, the First Friends of Dandenong Creek being just one of them—they do fantastic work along the Dandenong Creek. They focus on improving the water quality and riparian habitat, re-establishing indigenous flora and fauna habitat, protecting the waterways from inappropriate development load, managing environmental weeds and reducing litter.