A Green Canopy will stretch from the United Kingdom to the Kia Ora & District Pony Club in Wide Bay to mark the Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

The Mary River Catchment Coordinating Committee has been awarded $5000 under the latest round of Volunteer Grants funding, Federal Member for Wide Bay Llew O’Brien has announced today.

A grand avenue of Hoop Pines will be planted near the Brooloo Trailhead of the Mary Valley Rail Trail to mark the Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

A corridor of 1500 trees, the same number that Queen Elizabeth II planted during her 70-year reign, will be planted at Langshaw’s Hope Reins property to mark the Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Australians who served in the Vietnam War will be honoured at Vietnam Veterans’ Day ceremonies across Wide Bay next Thursday (August 18), Federal Member for Wide Bay, Llew O’Brien said.

Federal Member for Wide Bay Llew O’Brien has welcomed the reopening of the newly rebuilt $10 million Woolworths Maryborough today following the devastating floods early this year.

Federal Member for Wide Bay Llew O’Brien is urging flood-damaged sporting clubs to lodge an Expression of Interest for grants to help rebuild and better prepare for the next flooding event.

Low-interest loans and freight subsidies are now available for primary producers and small businesses in Gympie and the South Burnett, in the aftermath of the May floods that affected south-east Queensland.

Pomona’s Majestic Theatre and the Gympie Golf Club are among more than 5,000 community organisations across Australia to share in $20 million through the Liberal and Nationals Government’s 2021 Volunteer Grants round.

Community groups in Maryborough and Glenwood will share in $19,741 as Federal Member for Wide Bay and Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives Llew O’Brien recognises the valuable work of Wide Bay’s volunteers.