Thursday, 18 June 2026

 Melina BATH (Eastern Victoria) (12:53): (2410) Out in Queen’s Hall over yesterday and today, there have been some fantastic Landcare volunteers from my Eastern Victoria Region – from the Latrobe catchment, from West Gippsland, from Bass Coast and from East Gippsland – and it is fantastic to see and hear of the work that they do. Now, Landcare facilitators are under the pump all the time. They are looking for grants to continue the restorative work, the vegetative work and the habitat restoration work that they do. But speaking yesterday to one of them from my electorate, they are very concerned that facilitators are only funded for a very short time. So I ask the Minister for Environment to ensure that there is longer-term tenure – longer than two years – for funding for facilitators of our great Landcare movement, particularly in my Eastern Victoria electorate.