Media Releases
November 2024
August 2024
- Boost To PATS Fuel Subsidy provides relief to cost-of-living
- Funding supports healthy changes at Gnowangerup District High School
July 2024
- Esperance coastline to benefit from CoastWA grant
- Bremer Bay coastline to benefit from CoastWA grant
- Free Discount Directory to help Esperance seniors with the cost of living
June 2024
- Local school receives WasteSorted grant
- Thank a Volunteer Day Grants now available to recognise volunteers
- Aboriginal rangers to benefit from $16.5 million in funding
- Record submissions made on proposed South Coast Marine Park
- Gnowangerup receives sports event funding
- Funding boost for Arts Narrogin
- Funding boost for Rave About Arts Ravensthorpe
May 2024
- Budget boost for a WA-built clean energy future
- Boost for regional flights to keep cost-of-living support flowing
- Esperance Senior High School included in $1.6 billion investment in quality infrastructure for WA schools
- New regional rounds of the Local Capability Fund launched
- Horizon Power Community Partnerships Program
- Learner driver program succeeds in Esperance
- Local school receives WasteSorted grant
March 2024
- Agricultural region celebrates upgrades for local sports facilities
- Cook Labor Government’s Agrifood and Beverage Voucher Program to help Agricultural Region businesses flourish
December 2023
November 2023
October 2023
- Wheatbelt businesses commended for supporting emergency services volunteers
- Gnowangerup District High School commended for supporting emergency services volunteer
- Esperance businesses commended for supporting emergency services volunteer
- Great Southern communities set to save with free Waterwise offers
- RED grants supporting industry expansion and creating jobs in the Great Southern
- Sunshine Saver delivers energy savings for Esperance locals
- October is the month for outdoor adventure, locally and around WA
- Esperance to benefit from WA Black Spot funding
September 2023
August 2023
- Clubs to light up in Shires of Dumbleyung and Williams
- Wheatbelt to benefit from $148m boost to job-creating diversification projects
- Esperance Bus Trial extended for another year
- Capped airfares prove popular in first year of landmark scheme
- Airlines appointed to fully service regulated regional routes
July 2023
June 2023
- Government invests $330,000 in sustainable trails
- WA's new strategy to crackdown on feral cats in nation first
- Grants inject $3.4 million to support services for Aboriginal people
- $3.5 million for coastal erosion and support planning projects
- 2023 Community Litter Grants recipients announced
- Thank a Volunteer Grants Now Open
- 23 projects for Western Australia announced under new Disaster Ready Fund
- Regional Water Network Upgrades
- Youth Engagement Grant recipients announced
- $200,000 in grants to attract childcare educators to regional WA
- Funding enriches regional art and culture in Ravensthorpe
May 2023
- Shire of Cranbrook to save it for summer through Winter Sprinkler Switch-off
- Community Resource Centre Technology Boost - Great Southern
- Community Resource Centre Technology Boost - Wheatbelt
- Esperance to host Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2021 Education Workshop
- Regional communities supported with more than $400,000 awarded
- Round six of the Regional Economic Development Grants now open
- Taylor Street Quarters ‘hero dish’ to feature in Plating Up WA campaign
- Connecting to Country strengthens culture and communities
- Grant awarded to expand mobile coverage at Fanny Cove
- Big Lotterywest boost for Esperance Goldfields Surf Lifesaving Club
- Funding boost for water security project in the Shire of Esperance
- Delivering better outcomes for children in the Great Southern
- 2023 National Volunteer Week grant recipients announced
