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Media Release
4 September 2009
Yarra gains jobs and greener environment
More than 40,000 plants will be planted along a one-kilometre stretch of the Yarra River escarpment in Burnley under a Federal Government and Yarra City Council job creation project.
The Federal Government has approved Council’s application to the government’s Jobs Fund for $250,560 to run the project, which will create 12 jobs.
Yarra Mayor Cr Amanda Stone said the bushland maintenance jobs would be contracted through Greening Australia and would involve the Brotherhood of St Laurence’s Social Enterprise program.
Cr Stone said the project would also create four traineeships, and provide more than 720 hours of work experience annually through community programs involving Indigenous people and youth.
She said Council was delighted to be part of a project which would have such long-lasting social and environmental benefits.
“It is heartening to be part of a project which will build people’s skills and confidence, giving them a fresh start,” Cr Stone said.
She said the project would result in more than 40,000 small trees and grasses being planted along a one-kilometre stretch of the Yarra River escarpment in Burnley, from behind the Melbourne Girls’ College along to the Monash Freeway.
More than 1300 trees have been planted along this escarpment in recent months under a Department of Sustainability and Environment directive to Transurban to offset vegetation removal during works to widen the Monash Freeway. The Yarra Council-managed Jobs Fund project will provide a vital understory to complete ecological restoration works on the river’s escarpment.
Cr Stone said the labour-intensive project would initially focus on weed removal and control, with planting to get underway next April.
“Those working on this project will create a lasting legacy for our community, helping establish a natural environment that will attract birds, butterflies and other insects,” Cr Stone said.
She said the two-year revegetation project would be followed by a 10-year maintenance program, which would provide consistent part-time work to those employed through the social enterprise program.
She said Council and the Brotherhood of St Laurence Social Enterprise program had a good track record of working together to provide opportunities for local people.
The two organisations have worked together on a pilot program which had resulted in newly arrived members of the Sudanese community being employed as part of Council’s outdoor maintenance crew.
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