Kevin Andrews (Menzies, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I take this opportunity to draw the attention of the volunteer charitable community and the sporting and other civic groups in my electorate of Menzies to round 7 of the Stronger Communities grants, a round that will be opening soon. These grants provide amounts of between $2½ thousand and $20,000 for organisations to undertake the provision of important equipment and the like to the area. In the past, these grants have gone for things like solar panels, IT equipment, upgraded kitchens, air-conditioning, upgraded toilets, new sportsground shelters, an all-weather area, vehicles, a watering system, disabled toilets, a community garden, a scoreboard, refrigerators, storage, upgraded women's change rooms, a repaired wicket at a cricket oval, and a shelter and barbecue. So they're very useful grants for organisations not just in my electorate but the electorates of everybody in the House—a total of $150,000 per electorate.

I encourage all charitable, voluntary community organisations to contact their local federal member of parliament to get their application in. This round opens very shortly. It closes in December. If there is much-needed equipment that you want for your organisation, this is the opportunity to contact—in my case, Menzies—my office or your federal member for parliament.