You know winter is upon us when you’ve had the fire going now for the past couple of weeks, like I have! To top that off, I’m currently in isolation with COVID, despite having dodged it till now, even when my wife had it a few months ago.

Federal Election

A change in Government always brings short term interruptions as new ministers get their heads around portfolios and the inevitable changes that take place within the various government departments.

Congratulations to the new Australian Government and new ministers appointed to portfolios where we have a special interest: Agriculture (Senator the Hon Murray Watt); Environment & Water (Tanya Plibersek); Climate Change & Energy (Chris Bowen); Industry & Science (Ed Husic); and Regional Development (Kristy McBain). Our landscape repair and rehydration work has always received bipartisan support, so we look forward to being able to brief the new ministers on our projects and their importance to meeting Australia’s climate challenge.

NEW Film launch!

We are excited to share with you our brand NEW VIDEO - ‘Resilient landscapes for a sustainable futures’ - which looks at how our work has grown out from the Mulloon Rehydration Initiative to become the National Rehydration Initiative, allowing us to engage and collaborate with farmers as we roll our work out across Australia! Thanks to Nviro Media for another quality production which we are very proud to share with you all!

2022 Tony Coote AM Memorial Lecture

The Hon Shane Stone AC QC, Coordinator General of the National Recovery & Resilience Agency, delivered this year’s lecture for our annual Tony Coote AM Memorial Dinner, which was held at NSW Parliament House. It was a great success with 200 people in attendance and was a very welcome re-gathering following the lockdowns over the past two years.

Shane has been very busy in recent times, with responsibility on behalf of the Federal Government for both community recovery following natural disasters and preparing communities for future challenges such as drought, flood and bushfire. Given the drought, floods and bushfires experienced across the nation over the past few years, Shane had plenty of stories to relate, including his experience of visiting some of our work in North Queensland and its success during massive flood events.

Vitasoy sponsorship

We were excited to have Vitasoy’s CEO David Tyack at the Memorial Lecture, to announce Vitasoy’s sponsorship of our work over the next five years in repairing and rehydrating landscapes. We are delighted to receive this financial support from a corporate that clearly understands the need to expand our work and its role in helping the agricultural sector become more sustainable.

SUPPORTING LANDSCAPE REHYDRATION

Finally, as winter commences, we are also edging towards the end of the financial year. Much of our work is made possible through the very generous support of individuals and philanthropic organisations. As a charity listed on the Federal Government’s Environment Register, our DGR status means your donation is fully tax-deductible. When considering end of financial year support, please consider our internationally recognised environmental work.

Donating $50 or more, towards our National Rehydration Initiative, will help our education team continue developing landscape rehydration curriculum so it can be rolled out across Australia, to different climates and bioregions. Together we can help build a new future for Australian farmers with landscape rehydration skills that build greater resilience in our landscapes.

Please donate today

Gary Nairn AO
Mulloon Institute, Chairman