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North Sydney Council Wins NSW Excellence Award

Published on: August 2024

Record: HANSARD-1323879322-143528

North Sydney Council Wins NSW Excellence Award

Ms FELICITY WILSON (North Shore)

—Speaker I want to congratulate North Sydney Council for winning the Community Partnerships category at the NSW Local Government Excellence Awards for their Building Bridges to Boorowa project. The NSW Local Government Excellence Awards celebrate and promote innovation and continuous improvement within Local Government. The Building Bridges to Boorowa project aims to rehabilitate degraded farmland with native plants. It started 25 years ago, with a group of North Sydney Council Bushcare volunteers, staff and councillors making a yearly pilgrimage to the small town of Boorowa. The project has revived the habitat of threatened species, the superb parrot, and planted more than 73 884 native trees, shrubs and groundcovers. I also congratulate long-time Bushcare volunteer Sissi Stewart, who jointly won the Living Legend Award at the North Sydney Community Awards for her dedication to the project. Congratulations and thank you to all those involved for all the hard work you have done over the past two and a half decades.