Do you know an individual or community group that volunteers tirelessly in our local community that may go unnoticed? Nominations for the 2021 Aston Community Award are now open I initiated these awards eight years ago to recognise individuals and community groups that have made an outstanding contribution locally to helping others. …
DetailsThe Safer Communities Fund Round 6 Infrastructure grants provide schools and pre-schools, places of religious worship, community organisations and local councils with grants of up to $500,000 for crime prevention initiatives aimed at reducing crime, violence, anti-social behaviour and/or other security risks driven by racial and/or religious intolerance. Project activities can include: fixed or mobile CCTV cameras security lighting…
DetailsUniversities Australia Higher Education Conference 2021 03 June 2021 Thank you for the opportunity to be with you today and to have so many here in person. Unfortunately, my fellow Victorians cannot be here due to the most recent lockdown. But we send our best wishes to them. The Victorian outbreak is a reminder that…
DetailsThe Australian: If there is one thing in school education that generates heated debate, it is curriculum changes. And so it should. It goes to the heart of what our children are taught: the content, the priorities and the values embedded in the materials. Earlier this week the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority released…
DetailsTo cut the cost of living for around a quarter of a million families and to help boost workforce participation, the Morrison Government will make an additional $1.7 billion investment in child care as part of the 2021-22 Budget. The investment will add up to 300,000 hours of work per week which would allow the…
DetailsThis Anzac Day we are again able to gather at local services to reflect and pay our respects to all our defence personnel who have served our nation. I wanted to share with you the stories of five local Knox veterans who from World War II to Afghanistan have served to preserve our way of life. They are…
DetailsSince the first convoy of servicemen left the shores of Albany in 1914, almost two million men and women have worn with pride the uniforms of the Royal Australian Navy, Australian Army and Royal Australian Air Force and on ANZAC Day, we remember them all. We remember those that put their country first – our…
Details31 March 2021 Thank you Vice Chancellor Martin Bean for having me at your RMIT city campus, and congratulations on your contribution to this great university. I wish you well on your next chapter when you finish up here in a few months. Thank you also for the introductory remarks from the Hon Phil Honeywood.…
Details26 March 2021 Indian communities across Victoria are set to benefit from a new Indian Community Centre opened by the Hon Alan Tudge MP in Rowville today. The centre was partially funded by the Australian Government with $2.5 million in funding. Federal Member for Aston Alan Tudge said that once final council…
DetailsDid you know that an important key to the global rollout of the COVID vaccine lies in Knox? That’s right! Not in London, not in New York, but in our very own area. Biosafety is a small local business that is playing a massive role in the global roll-out. They have recently travelled to the…
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