Council is committed to implementing a WRRP that analyses current waste management performance and sets measurable targets for waste reduction and recycling. With assistance of the National Packaging Covenant and Product Stewardship Forums, Council will continue to educate and actively encourage all residents and businesses to reduce waste generation and participate in the various resource recovery services available.

Brisbane is home to two main universities - The University of Queensland and the Queensland University of Technology. However, it also contains 10 campuses from six Australian universities, including Griffith University, Australian Catholic University, and CQUniversity.

Ranked in the world's top 50, The University of Queensland is one of Australia's leading research and teaching institutions.

Queensland University of Technology is a public research university located in the urban coastal city of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. QUT is located on two campuses in the Brisbane area - Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove.

Griffith University is a public research university in South East Queensland on the east coast of Australia. Formally founded in 1971, Griffith opened its doors in 1975, introducing Australia's first degrees in environmental science and Asian studies.

Research institutions and organisations in Brisbane’s innovation and technology sector, covering both the life sciences and clean technology sector, include:
• Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology
• Australian Research Centre for Aerospace Automation
• Syngenta Centre for Sugarcane Biofuel Development
• Institute for Glycomics
• Institute for Molecular Bioscience
• Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation
• Mater Research
• Queensland Brain Institute
• Baosteel-Australia Joint Research and Development Centre
• Cooperative Research Centre for Mining
• Queensland Centre for Advanced Technologies
• Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI)

Queensland’s defence industries employ more than 6500 people, generated an estimated $6.3 billion in revenue in 2015-16 and secured $4.3 billion in Australian defence contract payments in 2016-17.1

The state is underpinned by a strong defence industrial base and world- class capabilities in a range of areas including aerospace support, ship repair and overhaul, heavy vehicle support and upgrades, command and control systems, reconnaissance and surveillance systems, unmanned vehicles, and cyber security. This positions Queensland at the front line of the defence industry in Australia and an innovative science and technology hub.

Recycling is one of the easiest and most effective ways of reducing the amount of waste that goes to landfill. Recyclable waste is a valuable resource. Recycling in the workplace is not only good for the environment but also makes good business sense.

As the largest industry across the manufacturing sector, food product manufacturing accounts for $2.1 billion in exports, $612 million value added to the economy and 6% of full time jobs.

Ipswich is home to JBS Australia's Northern Division headquarters, alongside JBS Australia's Dinmore processing facility, the largest beef processing plant in the southern hemisphere. Its connectivity to major highways and rail ensures access to an extensive network of quality cattle.

The largest industries in Logan in terms of contribution to Gross Regional Product (value added) are health care and social assistance, construction, manufacturing, retail trade, education and training, and wholesale trade. Some of these, particularly health and retail trade, are strongly linked to the growth and profile of the region's population. Construction is related to population growth, but Logan’s construction firms also service the wider region. Manufacturing is the traditional strength of the city.

Emerging industries in Logan include the care economy, advanced manufacturing, the circular and low-carbon economy, tourism, and creative and entertainment industries. Logan has emerging expertise in circular economy and low-carbon thinking.

The Queensland Government's Queensland Train Manufacturing Program will build 65 new six-car passenger trains at a purpose-built manufacturing facility at Torbanlea, in the Maryborough region.

The program will include a partnership with local schools to train students to be the next generation of the local engineering and manufacturing workforce.

The Wide Bay area is a military training area and has been used intensively by artillery regiments and infantry battalions employing armoured vehicles. The Wide Bay Training Area supports 7th Brigade units to conduct combat team training.

Cairns, Townsville, Rockhampton, Gladstone, Bundaberg and Toowoomba all support a significant ADF presence nearby or provide port and freight access for Defence.

The University of Southern Queensland’s (UniSQ) Institute for Advanced Engineering and Space Sciences, based in Toowoomba, provides a dedicated facility for space and defence research. UniSQ’s unique capabilities and facilities include Australia’s longest duration hypersonic wind tunnel (>200ms); the only Australian university solid propellant rocket fuel manufacturing laboratory; rocket motor and fuel tank manufacturing with Australia’s most advanced industry scale robotic composite material filament winding cell; and Australia’s only capability in airborne diagnostics for re-entry observations of Space modules. UniSQ has significant capability in ultra-high temperature ceramic matrix composites for rocket motor components.

As community leaders, local governments have a responsibility to implement a range of initiatives to improve environmental resilience and support sustainability.

We look forward to sharing and learning from other Councils as we work together to reduce our impacts on the climate and build a better future for our children and grandchildren.

Many local governments have been acting on climate change across Australia for decades.

Our community have asked us to join the partnership and we want to involve them in this journey, use the resources provided by CPP and learn from other councils who are dealing with similar environmental issues that we all face.

By learning from others it will help us progress faster on our pathway to increasing resilience and adapting to our already changing climate.

Resource recovery from a number of different waste streams is already being undertaken in the region, diverting materials such as clean fill, green waste, paper and cardboard, timber, metals and glass.

The amount of material recovered through these activities has followed an increasing trend over the last three years and is likely to continue as further resource recovery initiatives and technologies are introduced.

Education and engagement with the community plays a critical role in meeting waste management targets and reducing contamination rates. It is a key element in the successful implementation of this strategy, supporting the actions and objectives of other priorities.

Council recognises climate change as a global issue and that we are in a state of climate emergency requiring urgent and sustained effort. We also recognise that responding to climate change is a shared responsibility. We need to work together to focus our efforts and change our behaviours to increase the resilience of our region.

We need to prepare for the likely impacts of a changing climate, whilst also reducing our greenhouse gas emissions. Governments have an important role in showing leadership and supporting community action.

Mackay is a world-class service hub for the resource sector. While no mining is actually undertaken within the Mackay region, Mackay is home to one of the world’s most advanced, skilled and innovative mining service sectors.

Mackay’s strategic role as a key hub/logistics and export/support service centre for the significant resource deposits and projects operating across the Bowen and Galilee basins, has a competitive edge due to excellent rail, road and port connectivity.

While the investment pipeline in the resources sector has evolved in recent years, the region’s extensive and leading industry business base, knowledge/skills, and specialisation has provided the foundation and lead the way for further growth and diversification across the mining and resource service sector.

Clean technologies – in which the region is gaining a national reputation and which will expand in response to forecast national and global demand for technologies and solutions that avoid, reduce or remediate environmental impacts.

The Sunshine Coast Council’s corporate vision for a region that is healthy, smart and creative, acknowledges that creativity broadens our perspective, helps us to explore ideas to find solutions and to build resilience.

The aspirational vision defines creative regions as those regions while not exclusively driven by the arts, are those that acknowledge the arts as integral to creative achievement - alongside science, research, education, design and invention.

In fact, a vibrant and diverse arts and cultural ecology is an important contribution to the liveliness and vitality of the places we call home. Arts and culture contribute directly to the “sense of place” which attracts both residents and investors. These attributes determine the attractiveness of a city or region as a place in which to work, live, invest and raise a family.

The Refinery is a creative incubator designed to transform ideas into sustainable businesses. A testing ground and training platform, The Refinery connects the dots between creativity and business, with access to mentors and a network of inspiring industry leaders sharing real time knowledge.

Participants get mentoring from leading industry professionals, provide support to each other via a digital platform and gain access to online learning modules which cover the fundamentals of turning an idea into impact.

The Sunshine Coast University Hospital will provide leading-edge research facilities and professional services and provide an attractant for allied professional services to co-locate in the region. The facilities and services offered via SCUH and the broader Oceanside Kawana Health Precinct will enable the region to respond to both domestic and global demand for health and well-being services, particularly in the area of chronic disease prevention.

The specialist research capabilities of SCUH will further assist the region in establishing an international reputation and alliances and deliver careers and services not presently available.

The 200ha Gold Coast Health and Knowledge Precinct (GCHKP) is Asia-Pacific’s emerging health and innovation hub.

We’re a unique global business location for high-tech industry development, research collaboration and jobs of the future—a vibrant mixed-used community in which to live, work, study and play.

From a vaccine for malaria to a cure for spinal cord injury, we’re looking beyond the horizon with bold ambition and game-changing ideas.

Supported by $5 billion in infrastructure, including the world-class Griffith University and two major hospitals, the GCHKP is also home to the COHORT innovation and co-working space, the Griffith Innovation Centre, the Queensland Academy of Health Sciences senior school, the Southport Sharks entertainment precinct with a boutique Mantra hotel and extensive parkland and greenspaces.

The Precinct offers a dynamic, collaborative work environment for global health and knowledge companies and organisations to invest, cluster and grow, with land development, leasing and co-working opportunities on offer in the Lumina commercial cluster.

What if we could turn our landfills into producers of renewable, clean energy – if the waste gas from our non-recyclable and non-reusable rubbish were a resource that had a second life?

That’s exactly what we’re doing in collaboration with the Toowoomba Regional Council. LGI is transforming the Toowoomba Waste Management Centre into a renewable energy superpower in the fight against climate change.

Our new renewable energy power station at this landfill is the first in Queensland to convert methane from landfill into electricity. Council’s most demanding energy user will now be mostly (90-100%) supplied with renewable power fuelled by waste gas the tip.

This new project at the Toowoomba Waste Management Centre is the first in Queensland to convert methane from a landfill into electricity to power a Council’s waste water treatment plant.

Ipswich is home to RAAF Base Amberley, Australia’s largest air force base and is one of the largest employers with approximately 5,000 employees. It is the second largest export industry with a total $1.4 billion, almost one fifth (19.7%) of all exports, this compared with 5.8% across Queensland. Defence has played a pivotal role to the industry and its supply chain with 14% of value added and an increase of $313 million over five years.

TAE Aerospace, a wholly owned Australian company has eleven sites globally with a new Turbine Engine Maintenance Facility. This provides a valuable resource for identifying opportunities and upskilling businesses to meet the expectations of the defence supply chain.

MILVEHCOE is world class $170 million advanced military vehicle manufacturing facility in Australia, an asset of national significance. Rheinmetall Defence Australia is an entity and trusted partner to the Australian Defence Force. It continues to deliver on the $5.2 billion LAND 400 Phase 2 Project, creating jobs both through its facilities and through the local supply chain. Together, they play an important role in boosting Australian’s national defence capability.

Greater Springfield’s Defence Industry Technology and Research Precinct will focus on high technology defence support industries, garnering national and international attention. The Centre and Precinct is a collaboration with industry, academia and government to enhance Australia’s defence industry capabilities. It is a place where Defence support industry players to collaborate, to create the next wave of innovative technologies.

The Wide Bay Burnett is rich in a variety of minerals and many mineral projects are ready for investment to take them to the next level. This Prospectus outlines those projects that should be seriously considered.

Identified resources include gold, coal, silver, silica sand, ilmenite, bauxite, copper, nickel, molybdenum, magnetite, kaolin, limestone, apatite, manganese, scandium, feldspar, siltstone, black granite and clay.