Mr BARTLETT (1:55 PM) —On the weekend I visited Wentworth Falls Lake Bushcare Group, a small group of active, committed volunteers which is part of a much larger network of volunteer organisations in the Blue Mountains and Hawkesbury. These groups are regularly out there demonstrating their commitment to the local environment, with their sleeves rolled up—a clear contrast, I might say, to some of the green rhetoric we hear from other organisations around the place.

Wentworth Falls Lake Bushcare Group is an outstanding group, regenerating an area of bushland on the edge of the beautiful Wentworth Falls Lake. I am pleased the government have been able to help the group with its valuable work, with two Envirofund grants—$6,000 in 2003-04 and $5,000 in this recent round. We have also been able to help the group with the very valuable volunteer small equipment grants scheme, a program which has helped many organisations add to the value of life in our community. I commend the work of Wentworth Falls Lake Bushcare Group and the many other volunteer environment groups working in the Hawkesbury and Blue Mountains.