Environment
Green Thumbs Required for Statewide Commonwealth Games Treet Planting (574KB)
23 June 2005Up to 5000 green thumbs are being urged to help plant
up to 1 million trees across Victoria for the first ever 'carbon neutral'
Commonwealth Games
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Further Action To Clean Up Melbourne Waterways
31 August 2005Communities and schools along the Yarra and beyond
are invited to join in Our River, Our Games – a community action
project to help prepare the Yarra River for the Commonwealth Games.
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College Helps make the Games Carbon Neutral (572KB)
28 April 2005Staff and students at Worawa Aboringinal College
have joined volunteers from around Victoria to grow 25,000 trees to
help make the 2006 Commonwealth Games carbon neutral
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Schools to Help Victoria Become Waste Wise (574KB)
26 May 2005The Minister for Commonwealth Games, Justin Madden,
today visited Victorian schools to take up the waste wise challenge
in the lead up to the Commonwealth Games
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Communities grow trees for 2006 Commonwealth Games(572KB)
23 August 2004The Premier, Steve Bracks today called for volunteers to grow seedlings as part of the melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games Environment program.
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Clean sweep of the yarra in time for the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games(572KB)
01 August 2004A state-of-the-art river barge will patrol the Yarra River to keep the iconic water-way clean in the lead up to the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games.
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Bracks Government leading on litter in lead up to Games
More than $1million will be spent on an anti-litter campaign in the lead up to the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games, the Environment Minister, John Thwaites announced today.
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Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games to be first carbon neutral mult-sports event
09 May 2003The Minister for the Commonwealth Games, Justin Madden today launched the Games Environment strategy which will see Melbourne hosting the first carbon neutral multi-sports event.
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Government on Green Track for the Commonwealth Games
12 July 2002The Bracks Government has unveiled it's commitment to host an exceptionally clean Commonwealth Games
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