Teresa Gambaro (Brisbane, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I am delighted to update the House on the success of Clean Up Australia Day in the electorate of Brisbane. On 1 March 2015, I visited one of the many Clean Up Australia Day sites. The sponsors and volunteers were all there at the barbeque. I was happy to sponsor the barbecue at the Teneriffe Progress Association shed in the heart of the Brisbane electorate. I would like to specifically mention the excellent work being done by the Teneriffe Progress Association and the Brisbane Central Scout Group. The President of the Teneriffe Progress Association, Ben Pritchard, and Scout leader Adam Grey between them coordinated more than 60 volunteers to clean up Teneriffe.

In 2015, Clean Up Australia Day marked 25 years of volunteer work to help reinvigorate local areas across Australia, with 6,073 clean-up sites registered nationally. Since founding Clean Up Australia back in 1989, self-confessed 'average Australian bloke' and founder Ian Kiernan has mobilised the whole nation around this main event—Clean Up Australia Day. From the start of 300,000 volunteers who turned out on the first Clean Up Australia Day in 1990, Ian Kiernan estimates that his clean-up army has collected more than 290,000 tonnes of rubbish through the commitment of more than 27 million volunteer-hours. In 2015 the electorate of Brisbane had some 20 registered sites, and I want to thank everyone involved. (Time expired)