Wednesday, 17 June 2026

 Tom McINTOSH (Eastern Victoria) (09:55): I rise to acknowledge our Landcare volunteers across Victoria, who make an incredible contribution to our state. There is nearly an MCG full of Landcare volunteers across Victoria nowadays, with hundreds of groups and dozens of networks. It has been 40 years since Joan Kirner and Heather Mitchell, who was president of the Victorian Farmers Federation, kicked off Landcare in Victoria, and it has gone on to do incredible things in Australia and worldwide. We have got two big days here in Parliament, where volunteers from across metro and regional Victoria are coming in to exhibit the work that their local communities are doing to help make farms more productive and to support local environments.