We are delighted to share Merri Creek Management Committee’s new 2026 – 2031 strategy and refreshed brand.

This is an important moment for MCMC. For decades, our work has been grounded in community action, ecological expertise and a deep commitment to protecting and restoring the Merri Creek, its tributaries and surrounding landscapes. Our new strategy builds on those strong foundations and sets a clear direction for the years ahead.

As rapid growth continues across the northern catchment, and as climate change and increasing threats to biodiversity place new pressure on the creek and its ecosystems, our role has never been more important. The new strategy will help us strengthen our impact, deepen partnerships, and continue caring for Country and community across the whole catchment.

Our refreshed brand has been designed to support this mission. Developed through a collaborative process with input from staff, committee members, partners, volunteers, donors and community supporters, it reflects what people told us mattered most: our grassroots history, scientific credibility, local knowledge, and the power of working together.

The new identity retains the spirit and recognition of MCMC while giving us a clearer, more confident and accessible way to communicate our work. Inspired by the flow of Merri Creek and the landscapes, flora and fauna of the catchment, it reflects both where we have come from and where we are heading.

Later this year we will launch our new website, and from now you will begin to see our new brand across our emails, social media and other communications. We’re excited to show you the first application of our new brand, in the Strategic Plan 2026 – 2031.

Thank you for being part of this next chapter for Merri Creek.

MCMC congratulates one of our key partners, Metro, for their recent award for Excellence in Governance Outcomes – Sustainable Leadership at the Infrastructure Sustainability Council awards in Brisbane earlier this month.

The award recognised the exceptional sustainability and biodiversity outcomes achieved by Metro since the commencement of its role working on the Biosite Management Program in 2017. MCMC manages the majority of these ecological biosites, particularly the most sensitive or complex grassland reserves and many that were neglected or poorly documented.

“Without a doubt, the significant outcomes achieved through Metro’s Biosite Management Program and various biodiversity connectivity initiatives contributed significantly to Metro receiving the award,” says Biodiversity Manager Ben Roberts.

MCMC has enjoyed a strong partnership with Metro through the program, which aims to increase biodiversity and connectivity along rail corridors in the Greater Melbourne area.

Since 2018, our ecological team has helped Metro restore threatened native grasslands along these rail corridors – work that has delivered a seven-fold increase in threatened plant species at restoration sites, the recovery of three nationally threatened ecological communities, and the presence of five threatened species never before recorded in the rail reserve system.

Much of this success can be traced directly to MCMC’s on-the-ground work, which includes ecological burning, careful hand-weeding around threatened plants, surveys and monitoring.

“MCMC manage 20 of the original 30 sites for us, and we really appreciate their expertise, especially when it comes to native grasslands,” says Ben Roberts, Biodiversity Manager for Metro Trains. “As the only ecologist working within Metro, I also rely on Michael Longmore as a sounding board for ideas or concerns that I have.” 

The partnership has benefited MCMC as well, reflecting one of our five strategic objectives: Partnerships and collaboration.

“Working with Metro has allowed us to broaden the skills of our team and has been a fantastic opportunity for us,” says Michael Longmore, Ecological Restoration Team Leader.

“It’s also been a pleasure,” says Michael. “We congratulate Ben and the Metro team for this acknowledgement of their work.”

Caring for a creek that stretches over 60 kilometres requires more than just on-ground conservation work. Because Merri Creek weaves through shifting landscapes and diverse communities, protecting it also depends on the relationships between the people and organisations looking after the many different ‘patches’ connected to the creek system.

That collaborative spirit was on display last month during National Reconciliation Week, when MCMC staff joined community members and project partners to celebrate the one-year anniversary of Wollert Community Farm, moving into its purpose-built premises, alongside nugal biik Plants and Seeds, the Indigenous plant nursery based within it. The farm is situated at the northern edge of Naarm/Melbourne and Curly Sedge Creek – a tributary of the Merri – meanders nearby.

The farm is a visionary collaboration between Whittlesea Community Connections and Yarra Valley Water, with support from Melbourne Polytechnic and the City of Whittlesea. It has evolved rapidly into a vibrant hub where community, conservation and cultivation meet.

For the farm’s Conservation Coordinator Charlotte Gordon, the past year has been a rewarding payoff after years of planning.

“We’ve now had a full year of seasonal programs on the site,” she says. “The nursery has had its first proper year of production. It’s been really exciting because we’ve been able to employ more people in the nursery, and suddenly it feels like a growing and connected workplace and community.”

Many of those new staff members were previously volunteers or university students who completed placements within Charlotte’s program, reflecting the project’s focus on building local skills, pathways and connections alongside environmental outcomes.

Today, those teams are expanding the farm’s cultural and educational reach, including through the nugal biik Rangers programs. Staff are also running regular introductory conservation sessions and designing spaces for both First Nations and non-Indigenous participants to connect. There’s also an exciting initiative to revive the farm’s agricultural roots by focusing on traditional First Nations food crops. This provides a vital avenue for community members living potentially disconnected from culture to access traditional foods.

While the modern site is celebrating its first full year of seasonal operations, MCMC’s connection to this place runs much deeper. This is largely thanks to the open exchange of information between Charlotte and MCMC Ecological Restoration Program Manager Michael Longmore – a practice that reflects both MCMC’s organisational values and its daily work culture.

“I recently found an email Michael sent just two weeks after I started here in 2020,” reflects Charlotte. “The advice he gave has retained its importance to me even six years on. I’ve made a lot of decisions based on his points.”

That early exchange triggered a cascading network of support. It was Michael who initially connected the farm with the Narrap Rangers, the Country team of the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation, who have now been managing natural resource management works here for Yarra Valley Water for several years. Later, MCMC helped set up regular ecological monitoring infrastructure, ranging from reptile and frog surveys, to WaterWatch water-quality monitoring led by MCMC’s Julia Cirillo.

The fruits of this long-term capacity building are visible on the ground. Under the care of the nursery team, nugal biik Plants and Seeds grew over 100,000 plants in 2026: a massive leap from the 30,000 grown the year before. Operating as a social enterprise, the nursery has the infrastructure to scale up to 500,000 plants annually, generating sustainable income to support wider community programs.

This skyrocketing plant production directly feeds back into our shared catchment. A wonderful example of this circular on-ground collaboration is the supply of Curly Sedge (Carex tasmanica) seedlings from nugal biik Plants and Seeds to MCMC’s campaign project at Curly Sedge Creek. Harvested, nurtured, and grown locally, these distinctive, curly seedlings are heading back into the soil to restore their namesake tributary.

A welcome reward for these restoration efforts came last summer, when the team made a welcome discovery: a Growling Grass Frog, recorded during ongoing monitoring surveys. The threatened species had not been recorded this far north along the creek in more than twenty years – a hopeful sign that cared-for Country can offer inviting habitat for these frogs.

Last week’s anniversary open day, jointly organised by Charlotte and MCMC’s Dr Angela Foley, marked a major milestone in bringing the broader public into this space. Volunteers, community organisations and environmental groups came together to enjoy a morning tea and a guided walk where they were invited to observe the subtle signs of the waring (wombat) season as the weather transitions into the cold months.

“The point of the farm project has always been about better use of public land, and public land actually being used by the community,” says Charlotte. “This year has been the first time we’ve really had community coming in and shaping the space.”

That growing sense of community ownership is visible in both small and large ways: volunteers solving problems independently, local groups sharing resources, and increasing participation in conservation and cultural programs. It embodies the true spirit of catchment-wide conservation.

“In conservation, everyone is working on their little patches,” says Charlotte. “It’s just a great feeling when you stick your head up from your patch and realise that the patch you can see just over there is also being looked after. It feels like an ongoing relationship. Whenever we need support for this section of Curly Sedge Creek, it’s so easy to get advice – and it’s great when that advice is from people who are doing the work on the exact same creek.”

If you’re lucky enough to get a window seat on a Melbourne-bound train from Wallan Station, you’ll look out over a landscape shaped by decades of agricultural drainage and modern development.

“Wallan is growing so rapidly,” says Claudia James, from Wallan Environment Group. “Every month or two I notice a high-density housing development that has gone up.”

It’s hard to imagine that this was once the heart of Herne Swamp – a vast, 600-hectare wetland that teemed with thousands of brolgas, magpie geese and black swans. Today, less than ten percent of the region’s original freshwater marshland remains.

But right along that railway line to Melbourne, a remarkable survival story has been quietly unfolding.

The long, narrow corridor of rail reserve between Beveridge and Wallan has become a sanctuary for some of the catchment’s rarest ecological communities.

Stepping into the reserve reveals a surprisingly varied landscape on a miniature scale. It’s a place of shifting gradients, where rocky rises and small escarpments topped with native plains grasslands slope gently down into wet, swampy depressions. Here, water still accumulates after heavy rains, maintaining the precious, federally protected Seasonal Herbaceous Wetland communities that have vanished elsewhere.

This rich diversity is no accident; it is the product of a very specific land management history.

Before colonisation, Wurundjeri people responded to these plains using cultural burning. Post-contact farmers continued using fire to clear stubble. Then, when the railway line was built right through the middle of the swamp, a new kind of fire regime took over. To minimise the risk of stray sparks and embers from steam trains igniting dry vegetation and risking a spread to surrounding farmland, railway workers conducted regular fuel-reduction burns along the railway corridor to keep trackside growth low.

Flora of the Wallan rail reserve

The flora persisting inside the Wallan rail corridor at the centre of our campaign, reads like a roll call of endangered Australian plants. Among them is murnong (Plains Yam Daisy), a plant that thrives in the wet, swampy depressions. Murnong was a traditional food staple for First Peoples across southeastern Australia and it continues to hold cultural significance today.

“There is also one called a Swamp Daisy (Allittia cardiocarpa),” Robbie says. “I didn’t know it was even in the Merri Creek catchment until recently. It’s really rare in the region, has a beautiful daisy flower and it needs this seasonal inundation. Another is the Swamp Everlasting (Xerochrysum palustre), which is critically endangered in Victoria. It’s a really beautiful flower that relies on the seasonal flooding that still happens in parts of the rail corridor.”

Perhaps the reserve’s most intriguing ecological mystery is its population of Diuris, commonly known as Golden Moth orchids.

“The Golden Moth orchid flowers are a bit smaller than other orchids present on the site,” says Robbie. “They flower at a different time to the Common Golden Moth orchids.”

This mystery plant has not yet been formally studied and may represent a completely unique, undescribed species, or a vital outlying population of the nationally endangered Small Golden Moth orchid (Diuris basaltica) or Clumping Golden Moth orchid (Diuris gregaria).

With several orchid species still hanging on – and a history of others lost to past rail works – the stakes are high. “Working on the site will allow us to ensure remaining orchid populations are protected from weed invasion and given the best chance to flourish,” Robbie explains.

This constant, predictable cycle of fire ceased in the 1980s. In the decades since, the absence of regular burning has allowed biomass to build up. Thick layers of dead grass and invasive weeds like gorse have begun to choke out the delicate spaces between native tussocks where small herbs and wildflowers rely on sunlight to germinate.

This is why reintroducing careful ecological burning is now a key priority for Merri Creek Management Committee, as part of our campaign to Sow the seeds of a wetland.

“The area we want to work in, if we can raise the funds, is one of the few parts of the landscape that still includes remnant vegetation,” says Robbie Belchamber, Merri Creek Management Committee’s Ecological Restoration Team Leader.

“The historic fire regime played a big part in that. In some areas of the reserve, fencing along the corridor also helped protect remnant patches from grazing and other pressures. Some sections also continue to receive seasonal flooding, creating refuge habitat for species that have disappeared elsewhere.”

“There’s a lot to learn from working in this kind of area,” Robbie says. “It’s a really important resource, particularly for seeds that could help restore the wider landscape.”

Restoring the landscape means returning a controlled, sensitive fire regime to the area. Working in negotiation with rail operators, MCMC’s Ecological Restoration team hopes to carry out a major ecological burn within the reserve. 

The fire will clear out the suffocating thatch, open up the inter-tussock spaces, and allow native herbs to re-establish. Following the burn, intensive weed control will target the aggressive gorse and grasses that compete for space.

Crucially, this work will unlock the reserve’s potential to act as a seed orchard. By safely harvesting seeds from these healthy remnant populations, MCMC can propagate threatened species off-site without over-exploiting the wild plants.

These seeds will become the lifeblood for the future, large-scale restoration of the broader Herne Swamp and the proposed wallan wallan Regional Parkland.

“Our vision for wallan wallan Regional Parkland is about protecting the landscape, but it’s also to put people back in contact with nature,” explains Claudia.

“We have a potential regional park right on our doorsteps that will follow the creek lines and incorporate swampy wetland areas right across to where the volcanic cones are. Even if we secure approval, that will take time, but it’s important to work together and do what you can when you can.”

Marnie Goding, creek lover and Cofounder of sustainable clothing brand ELK

Marnie and her team at ELK spend two days each year supporting environmental organisations, including MCMC, through their paid volunteering program. ELK regularly join MCMC clean-up days, usually working to collect litter along the creek and surrounding parklands.

What’s your favourite time of year on the Merri Creek?

I love the creek and parks in autumn, especially early in the morning. There is something really calming about the cold air and light, the birds and the feeling that nature is quietly getting on with its day before the city wakes up.

Do you have a favourite Merri Creek animal or plant species?

I love seeing the mix of native vegetation that grows along the banks of the creek and how these spots are alive with bugs and birds. This is their place.

Can you share a memory from the creek, and how it strengthened your sense of care for the Merri?

Every time we have attended a clean-up, I have loved looking back over the area we’ve worked at the end of the day, to see it looking returned to how it should be: free of human touch. It’s a simple reminder that even small actions can have a positive impact and that looking after local places really matters. The other thing I find pleasing (rather than surprising) is the looks and questions we get from the general public in the park. People often thank us as we are cleaning up – I love that perhaps they too might think differently or join a clean-up in the future.

Describe a volunteering day that ELK did with MCMC and what impact it had on your team.

We meet as a group in the morning and spend some time learning about the area, looking at a map of the waterway system and reflecting on the work MCMC have been doing. The work is simple but incredibly rewarding. It gives our team a tangible way to contribute and creates a stronger connection to the environment right on our doorstep. We always get a real kick out of the strange things we find and it naturally turns into a competition of who can find the most or weirdest things. Everyone without exception gets stuck in and does not hold back – it’s a way for us to see each other in a different light.

What inspired you to partner with Merri Creek Management Committee?

We were looking for meaningful local environmental volunteering opportunities and MCMC felt like a natural fit. Their work is practical, community-focused and creates visible outcomes.

MCMC are local and hands-on. The ELK office is in Preston, we operate a retail store here and our distribution centre is in Reservoir – the Merri Creek is in our ‘hood. We want our team to be able to see the direct impact of their efforts and build a connection with a place that we all work and spend time around.

What is it about MCMC’s values that align with ELK’s?

We share a belief that positive change comes from action. MCMC’s focus on stewardship, community involvement and long-term care for the environment aligns strongly with how we approach responsibility at ELK. I always love the lessons from the committee before each clean up too as we look over the map to see where and how far the waterways run. ELK’s values include community and authenticity amongst other things – actually turning up and putting in effort is really important. We can achieve so much if we live these values.

When you imagine your favourite spot along the Merri Creek in 50 years’ time, what does it look or sound like?

I hope I see more people visiting. Flourishing native vegetation, more wildlife, cleaner water free of debris and no cigarette butts!! We are so lucky to have this ecological aspect to our inner-city location, so I hope most of all, that future generations value it enough to keep caring for it.

 Find out more about how MCMC can work with your organisation to develop corporate volunteering opportunities. 

The Latham’s Snipe is a globetrotter that prefers to stay entirely out of the spotlight.

Quiet, cryptic and remarkably well camouflaged, these migratory shorebirds spend much of their time hidden among dense wetland grasses and reeds. For most of the year, they breed in northern Japan and eastern Siberia before making the extraordinary journey south along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway, arriving in Australia between August and April to rest and feed before returning north once again.

Latham’s Snipe. Photos by Beverley Van Praagh.

Despite travelling thousands of kilometres each year, Latham’s Snipe often go unnoticed. But for MCMC Ecological Restoration Team Leader Nicola Babbage, one encounter in the Merri Creek catchment has stayed with her.

“It was early December and we were working in a grassland at the Aitken Creek confluence in Craigieburn,” Nicola recalls. “We stopped to inspect the tall grasses on the edge of the creek, planning the day’s work, when all of a sudden, we heard one loud, distinct ‘krek!’ and the snipe flew straight out of the grasses past us.”

“Its long, slender bill and striped, mottled plumage were an immediate giveaway. We just looked at each other and said, ‘That was the snipe!’”

That was a snipe!

For Nicola, the moment carried a sense of awe: not only because the species is rarely seen, but because of the journey the bird had taken to get there.

“We knew they had been seen at the site before, and that they often return to the same places each year,” she says. “But actually seeing one was something really special. You think about the huge migration these birds make every year, and how much they rely on safe wetland habitat along the way.”

Latham’s Snipe depend on freshwater wetlands with low, dense vegetation where they can shelter during the day. At night, they come out to feed – foraging in soft, shallow mudflats for seeds, insects, and small invertebrates. These habitats once occurred extensively across south-eastern Australia, including throughout the Merri Creek catchment.

But today, they are increasingly rare. Across the Plenty and Merri Plains, more than 90 per cent of freshwater marshland habitat has been lost or heavily degraded since colonisation, largely through drainage for agriculture and urban development.

One of the most significant examples is Herne Swamp, a vast wetland system on Melbourne’s northern fringe that once covered more than 600 hectares. Although much of the swamp was drained in the early twentieth century, fragments of its original ecology still persist – particularly along the Melbourne–Sydney rail corridor.

These remnants continue to support threatened plants, frogs and grassland species, and provide habitat for wetland birds. According to MCMC’s Michael Longmore Latham’s Snipe have been sighted recently at Herne Swamp – very close to the area targeted by MCMC for upcoming restoration work – as well as in the grasslands further south around Craigieburn.

The species is now listed as Vulnerable under both federal and Victorian environmental legislation, with scientists estimating population declines of around 30 per cent over the last three generations. Habitat loss, altered waterways, drought and large-scale fires are all contributing pressures.

For migratory birds like the snipe, every remaining wetland matters.

“We really want to protect these pockets of suitable habitat,” Nicola says. “Especially for migratory species that rely on having those stopover points along their migration routes where they can safely rest, feed and recover.”

That understanding sits at the heart of our restoration work and care for Wurundjeri Country in the upper Merri catchment. The team targets invasive weeds like blackberries that threaten to choke the dense reeds the Snipe relies on for daytime cover. However, the team takes a highly strategic approach: during weeding and ecological burns, they carefully manage the landscape to retain patches of protective vegetation – even if it includes non-local species – ensuring the birds are never left exposed.

By carefully conducting weed control to allow key indigenous wetland plants to regenerate, utilising ecological burning, and returning health to this area, the team is actively creating the shallow, muddy margins and protective cover that Latham’s Snipe depend on.

Small, hidden, and easy to miss, this incredible shorebird is a reminder that even heavily altered landscapes can hold remarkable ecological values, and that restoring wetlands today can help ensure these migratory visitors continue returning to the Merri catchment each year.

If you would like to be a part of this vision, please consider supporting our current fundraising campaign to fund vital, on-ground restoration work in the upper Merri catchment.

The wallan wallan Regional Parkland Alliance was officially launched on the weekend! Our Alliance partners – MCMC, FoMC, WEG, and BEAM – met at the top of Green Hill looking out over Herne’s Swamp all the way to Mt Fraser, and across the area that would make up the wallan wallan Regional Parkland.

The Hon. Ros Spence, Member for Kalkallo joined us, and spoke about the importance of natural spaces for the communities that will make up the far northern suburbs, and the importance of our Alliance to helping to bring the vision to life.

Our Alliance is calling on the state government to commit to the establishment of the wallan wallan Regional Parkland – for recreation, conservation, and community health and wellbeing. If you haven’t signed our petition, help us reach 10,000 signatures by signing it today.

You can read more about the launch and campaign, in the article published in the North Central Review (see page 2), or via the Allinace’s website.

Images by Jane Miller & MCMC Staff.

MCMC honours the life of Gil Freeman, an inspiring leader in our community of Merri Creek protectors and advocates. Gil was a giant at CERES, in Brunswick and more recently South Gippsland. Gil Freeman died after a brief illness in late March. He was 85 years old and is remembered with fondness and gratitude.

We thank Chris Ennis from CERES for permission to reproduce his tribute to Gil, with small amendments to his original article.

Almost exactly fifty years ago in a May 1976 edition of The Brunswick Sentinel, a small article appeared promoting a guided walk along the Merri Creek, led by a young Gil Freeman, then chairman of the Brunswick Community Group.

The Merri Creek which at the time was treated as an open sewer by local factories was more or less inaccessible to the public – its banks were choked with fennel and boxthorn and littered with old car bodies and broken white goods.

The Sentinel article quotes a vision from the group of how things could be different…

“Imagine if you can, parkland, walking tracks, bike paths and sports grounds all set alongside a crystal clear, rambling creek.”

It was this article and this walk that catalysed a group of people, including creek stalwarts, Ann and Bruce McGregor, who would come together to transform the neglected waterway into a living creek.

And it was Gil Freeman who would engage local councils to attend the first meeting of the Merri Creek Coordinating Committee in December 1976, the precursor to the Merri Creek Management Committee, the body that united local councils and friends’ groups around this vision for the beloved creek we know today.

Gil would go on with collaborators Chris Ryan, Neville Stern and many others to establish a community park that would host hands-on environmental education for schools, urban farming, alternative energy demonstrations and social and environmental employment programs.

It took the group four years’ work to secure a lease on the old tip site at the end of Stewart St in Brunswick East on the banks of the Merri Creek which would become CERES, the community hub next to which MCMC still finds it home today.

Gil Freeman served as chair at CERES for its first two years.

In November last year along with his fellow founders and elders Gil told stories about the early days of “Sunday Funday” working bees where hundreds came to help clean up and rehabilitate the old tip site.

Always a big picture person, Gil reminded his audience that the purpose of CERES back then was to look ahead at the things our community would need in 10 years, to be brave and bring them to life.

So many of those ideas, experiments and programs established by this group all those years ago have become mainstream and inspired so many other groups, communities and governments to take action of their own.

We often speak of big trees in our community, people who over years have provided the space, the nourishment and inspiration for those around them to grow and thrive. Gil Freeman was one of them.

Gil Freeman was one of those big trees at CERES. Gil Freeman was always a collaborator, a co-founder and a creator of coalitions.

Son of a Methodist minister, Gil grew up in a culture based around service and collective social activism.

It was in church halls, rather than churches, where he saw action happening – where community gathered, fundraised, organised care and brought youth together. Early on Gil Freeman discovered the power of transforming unwanted places to create belonging and change. He did this in an unused church hall in Brunswick, creating the Sydney Road Community School; in an old tip site on the banks of the Merri Creek, creating CERES; and in a polluted and inaccessible creek, to create the Merri Creek Coordinating Committee.

 The testament to his work is that so many of the organisations and projects that Gil and his collaborators began are still going decades later.

As a school principal, Gil Freeman was comfortable approaching officialdom and had a knack of bringing grassroots activists and the right people in local and state government together around a purpose.

He built coalitions of stakeholders and patiently created change in committees, building new relationships, opening up minds and spaces for practical action to follow.

“You’ve got to build up a range of people who are prepared to walk with you. If you’re by yourself, you’re really fighting against it,” he observed. 

Gil Freeman loved music, painted water colours, wrote lists, carefully filed documents, was an eloquent storyteller and gave a great speech. He also had a deeply silly and playful side and was above all dedicated to his lifelong partner and collaborator Meredith (Mem), his three sons and their families. 

In 2023 Gil Freeman was recognised with an Order of Australia for service to conservation and the environment.

The length of his citation, which captures only part of his life’s work, says so much about his irrepressible nature and instinct to serve his community, including leading or founding roles in Brunswick Community Group, Brunswick Unemployment Group, Thornbury Compost, Merri Creek Action Group, Merri Creek Coordinating Committee, CERES, Moreland Energy Foundation, Prom Country Bushfood Association, Southern Bushfood Association, Tarnuk Bush Food and Flowers, Australian Native Food (Industry) and Grow Lightly.

Gil Freeman, we’ll miss you.

MCMC is seeking expressions of interest for someone with expertise (and/or qualifications) in accountancy, bookkeeping, and/or financial management, to join our Finance Subcommittee in a voluntary capacity. We value sound financial management as fundamental to our environmental, educational and advocacy goals.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a well-established community not-for-profit organisation, and a team with a passion for environmental restoration and community engagement. You’ll bring your financial management experience to help guide the future of the organisation alongside our Treasurer and small finance team. The expertise of a qualified accountant on the Finance Committee has been beneficial in achieving this in the past, however it is not essential for applicants to have this qualification.

The commitment includes two hours a quarter, comprising a one-hour meeting and one hour preparation per quarter. The Finance Subcommittee meets on a quarterly basis and is currently comprised of the Treasurer, one other office bearer, the MCMC Executive Officer and Finance Officer.

Please email Ops Manager Sean O’Hara on seanohara@mcmc.org.au or call for a friendly chat on 0481 135 834 to find out more.