Clean Up Australia Day

Hansard ID: HANSARD-1323879322-110914

Hansard session: Fifty-Seventh Parliament, First Session (57-1)

Clean Up Australia Day

Mr MARK COURE (Oatley) (20:03):

:06 I recently joined forces with the Oatley Flora and Fauna Conservation Society to participate in this year's Clean Up Australia Day, which is a fantastic initiative that has been marked on our calendars for over 30 years. Over these past three decades, over 17 million Australians have undertaken Clean Up Australia activities and over a whopping 350,000 ute loads of rubbish have been removed from our local environments. These are great achievements and the numbers just keep growing. This year I donned my waterproof shoes and gloves and set off to Lime Kiln Bay, which is a wetland in my electorate of Oatley. I was expertly led by the Oatley Flora and Fauna Conservation Society to clear the wetlands of rubbish. Knowing the difference that it would make to the thriving ecosystem in the area was a very rewarding feeling. I thank Liz Cameron, the society's secretary, for her invitation to participate in their fantastic clean-up effort.