Community

Landcare

On National Tree Planting Day 2002, Australia Post sponsored the planting of 2000 trees and understorey plants at McGlashan's Reserve near Bendigo, Victoria. These plants will provide food and shelter for wildlife and help to reduce salinity in the area.

Our sponsorship also contributed funds for nesting boxes to provide shelter for the rare Brush-tailed Phascogale, a small carnivorous marsupial found in the area. Australia Post staff and their families from the Bendigo Mail Centre, Delivery Centre and Postshop were part of a 120-person team, including local school children and farmers, who participated in the day.

Australia Post has also recently become a sponsor of The Tree Project, which recruits volunteers from Melbourne and rural townships to collect seeds and grow seedlings.

These seedlings are then provided to farmers and rural landowners for revegetating their land.

Indigenous Employment and Business Strategy

Australia Post is committed to providing increased employment and business opportunities to Indigenous Australians through our Indigenous Employment and Business Strategy.

By mid-2002, we had employed 531 Indigenous Australians under the Strategy – 1.5% of our total workforce.

Over the next three years, we aim to build on this success by:

• attracting and employing larger numbers of Indigenous Australians, throughout all areas and levels of our business;
• providing more business opportunities to Indigenous communities and individuals;
• and continuing to build strong links with local Indigenous communities.

Supporting Rural and Regional Communities

As part of our commitment to helping Australian communities, Australia Post supports a number of events and organisations in rural and remote areas. These include:

• The Rural Youth Ambassador Scheme;
• The Tidy Towns Bush Spirit Award;
• The Breast Cancer Network, which provides support and information for rural women with breast cancer
• The Bell Shakespeare Company’s tour of regional centres around Australia;
• The Australia Post Stawell Gift, which draws huge crowds and boosts the local economy
• The Beach to Bush program, which teaches water safety to people from rural areas, reducing the numbers who drown in farm dams, rivers and waterways, and
• Ongoing involvement with the School of the Air network;

School of the Air students depend on Australia Post to
deliver their learning materials.

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