Manager Catchment Education and Engagement
- set the strategic direction for MCMC’s catchment education and engagement programtake this new role and guide the catchment team to design, deliver, and evaluate programs for schools, teachers, adult learners, community groups, and corporate clients
- foster partnerships across education, cultural, health and wellbeing, and environment sectors
- be a self-starter with excellent communications and relationship building skills, who can grow our catchment education program in a way that reflects the needs of the ever-growing Merri Merri community
- hit the ground running, leading our experienced catchment education team, and bring a creative flair and innovative mindset to the role.
Seasons in marram baba Parklands: a living calendar
Standing on a low bridge over Merri Creek at galada tamboore, the assembled group falls quiet. With eyes closed, the landscape begins to separate into layers: water moving below, a gentle breeze through the beal (River Red Gums), birds calling overhead. Each person hears something different.
It’s November, in the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung season of buath garru, when grasses flower across the landscape. In the surrounding grassland, seed heads are already forming, shifting between pale green and sandy gold as they catch the light.
marram baba Merri Creek Parkland, image by Dianna Wells.
A growing alliance champions wallan wallan Regional Parkland in Melbourne’s north
In the upper Merri Creek catchment, the landscape is changing, with new suburbs spreading across plains that were once defined by wetlands and waterways. But just beyond the edges of development, another story is still visible: volcanic cones, remnant grasslands, and a creek system that continues to shape the land.
For local campaigner and former Mitchell Shire Councillor Rob Eldridge, who has been advocating for the establishment of a Regional Parkland here for decades, it’s a place that is full of possibility.
Early spring, looking towards Mt Fraser. Image by Michael Longmore.
Do you want to contribute to protecting the Merri Creek and surrounds?
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.
Vale Gil Freeman
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.
Gil Freeman, image supplied by Mark Phillips, Editor at the Brunswick Voice.
Torchlit Twilight Nature Tour for Families and Community: Visit Kalkallo Common with a Guided Nature Walk
When: 6pm - 7:30pm, Tuesday 14th April
It’s a good time to get together with the Kalkallo community to explore the fascinating local features of Kalkallo Common, including the nature of its rockiness and connection to the new marram baba Merri Creek Parklands. We’ll explore Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung waring season (April - July), as we aim to continue our connections to each other and nature in your neighbourhood.
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