🌿🌏As we kick off Landcare Week 2024, we want to acknowledge the former Australian Prime Minister, Bob Hawke AC, who created Landcare Australia and landcare as a national movement in 1989.🌿🌏
🌱🚜Over the last 35 years, landcare has evolved to encompass not only farmers and conservationists in rural areas, but everyone in local communities across Australia who are taking action to 🌾restore, 🍃enhance and protect land, 💦waterways and biodiversity.
🍺🍻Since Bob’s passing in 2019, his legacy for the landcare movement continues through Landcare Australia and his close association with Hawke’s Brewing. The team from Hawke’s Brewing have continued to brew beer in his name for the enjoyment for all Australians, with Bob’s royalties going to Landcare Australia to support landcare projects including the Endangered Coastal Emu Protection project in Northern NSW, and 🦀Mudcrabs in Sydney.
🏛️♻️This Landcare Week, we want to acknowledge Bob’s contribution to landcare and his vision for all Australians: “The degradation of our environment is not simply a local problem, nor a problem for one state or another, nor for the Commonwealth alone. Rather, the damage being done to our environment is a problem for us all – and not just government- but for of us individually and together.”
💪🏅We also want to thank the team at Hawke’s Brewing for their continued support for landcare projects where communities come together to care for the land, and each other. A few years ago, the Hawke’s team recorded probably one of the last interviews with Bob. His messages from then are just as important for us to👂listen to today.
Start your Landcare Week with a message from Bob and enjoy some beautiful Australian landscapes. Thank you, Bob! Watch Bob Here 📽️ https://lnkd.in/gBwc2hd #LandcareWeek #LandcareIsForeEveryone #LIFE
Wishing you a joyful Independence Day! How are you and your team celebrating this special day?