JCDecaux announces new partnership with Bush Heritage Australia mumbrella.com.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mumbrella.com.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Southern Cross University has awarded its Chancellor Nick Burton Taylor AM an honorary doctorate.
Mr Burton Taylor has served the University as Chancellor since 2014 and worked across a number of industries in his long and distinguished business career.
“I am both taken aback and grateful to receive such an honour from the very institution I have had the privilege of serving and championing for the last seven years,” Mr Burton Taylor said.
“As my time as Chancellor nears its natural conclusion I have pause to reflect on the achievements and momentum of Southern Cross University.”
The Chancellor said despite current conditions still being challenging, Southern Cross was now on the right trajectory to a strong and sustainable position.
Premium Content
Subscriber only
A not-for-profit organisation has recently completed the second phase of a project in Central Queensland, to harvest native grass seeds to use in mine land rehabilitation projects across the state.
National not-for-profit Bush Heritage Australia recently wrapped up the second phase of an innovative Queensland Bluegrass (Dichanthium sericeum) grass seed harvesting project on Carnarvon Station Reserve, Bidjara country in the Queensland Brigalow Belt region.
Bluegrass species typically grow best on fertile clay soils that are suited for grazing and cropping and as a result, its extent and condition has declined dramatically since the introduction of large-scale agricultural practices.
Native seed harvesting project to revitalise CQ grasslands cqnews.com.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cqnews.com.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
âThe foundation of lifeâ: why Annelie Holden made a bushland bequest
Weâre sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later.
Dismiss
Save
Normal text size
Advertisement
The first time Annelie Holden saw this patch of bushland, an hour north of Melbourne, it was thick with vegetation, far from people and had no water or shelter.
âIt was perfectâ, the 86-year-old says with a laugh.
Ms Holden and her brother, Anthony Jannink, arrived in Melbourne from the UK in 1965 and moved into a South Yarra flat with no garden.
Annelie Holden
So they pored through advertisements in
The Age to find a piece of land and fell in love with a remote bush block near Broadford, in central Victoria.