Farmers and landcare groups in in Cairns and Far North Queensland are encouraged to apply for funding of up to $50,000 under round three of the Australian Government’s Smart Farms Small Grants program. Federal Leichhardt MP Warren Entsch said the grants would help farmers turn innovative ideas into on-ground projects to improve the quality of…
Federal Leichhardt MP Warren Entsch today announced 43 scholarships would be available to international and domestic students to study in Cairns and Far North Queensland next year. Mr Entsch said tertiary education providers in Cairns and Far North Queensland had been provided $1.056 million to offer the scholarships through the Morrison Government’s $93.7 million Destination…
The Cairns-based Yirrganydji Land and Sea Rangers will receive funding to purchase a boat so they can continue to monitor, preserve and improve sea country through marine surveillance and restoration. Funding of $270,000 for the purchase of a marine vessel will be delivered through the National Indigenous Australians Agency’s Capacity Building for Indigenous Rangers Strategy.…
The Morrison Government will fund research to record the unique Indigenous rock art found in the Laura Sandstone Basin in Cape York. Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan today announced the Morrison Government was providing $1.342m to fund the project. “This project will record the unique indigenous rock art from an area of Australia that is…
Cairns and Far North Queensland will benefit from changes to Australia’s regional migration settings after the Morrison Government increased the number of dedicated regional visas to 25,000. Following unprecedented growth (124 per cent) in the number of regional visas granted in the first quarter of this programme year, the government is increasing the total number…
JD the biosecurity detector dog has been welcomed to Cairns International Airport to help keep Australia safe from African swine fever (ASF). Queensland Senator Susan McDonald said the new detector dog comes at a time of heightened risk of ASF for Australia. “In Senate Estimates last week I asked why an international airport like Cairns,…
MR ENTSCH: This week I had the absolute honour of being invited to celebrate the 550th birthday of Shri Guru Nanak Dev Ji, the founder of the Sikh religion and the first of 10 Sikh gurus. It was the first time this special event has been celebrated in Parliament House. Guru Nanak preached the message…
Federal Leichhardt MP Warren Entsch said the Australian dairy industry will have a mandatory code of conduct by the start of next year. Mr Entsch said the mandatory code would improve the contractual arrangements between dairy farmers and dairy processors. He said this was the outcome dairy farmers on the Tablelands had been crying out…
MR ENTSCH: It gives me immense pleasure to rise today to speak on this motion and to mark National Peacekeeper and Peacemaker Day, which was observed on 14 September 2019. Australia has always played a leading and vital role in peacekeeping missions around the world, none more so that than leading 22 nations in the…
Mr ENTSCH: Next week marks the first anniversary of the brutal and horrific murder of 24-year-old Cairns woman Toyah Cordingley. Sadly, her killer or killers have not been caught, despite the biggest murder investigation Far North Queensland has seen. In fact, it’s one of the largest police investigations since the kidnap and murder of Daniel…
