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This month we are featuring the Federal Government's Re-tooling for Climate Change grant and the State Governments Jobs Assist program.

Re-Tooling for Climate Change

If you are manufacturing in the Logan region and would like to reduce your environmental footprint, speak to AusIndustry.

Grants of between $10,000 and $500,000 are available through the Re-Tooling for Climate Change program for half the cost of eligible projects.

Examples of projects funded to date include: 

  • Application of water capture and recycling technologies
  • Process re-engineering to reduce the energy and water consumed or wasted in production
  • Use of renewable energy sources to fuel production, including use from water biomass production


For more information call Tracy Constable from AusIndustry on (07) 3227 4717. Alternatively, you can call the AusIndustry hotline on 13 28 46 or go to the Re-Tooling for Climate Change webpage. 

Jobs Assist Program

Queensland is now moving towards a preventative approach to job losses, focusing on helping businesses to be resilient to the effects of the global financial crisis and to prepare for the future as conditions improve.

The Queensland Government will provide assistance and support to help businesses to protect jobs. There is a strong link between the continuing viability of businesses in a downturn and their ability to retain workers.

The Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation has implemented the Jobs Assist program that will provide strong support for businesses that have been identified as requiring support services.  Support will be provided in two stages:

Stage 1 will provide up to $3,000 to assist the client to engage a consultant to conduct an assessment of the client's business and develop an Action Plan to address all strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the business including an effective reporting process and select strategies and actions to support and improve the business.

Stage 2 will provide up to $5,000 to assist the client to implement the activities identified as immediate priority tasks in their Action Plan that could include an effective reporting process, through the engagement of a consultant to mentor or provide expert advice on the implementation process or through the provision of a contribution to the application of relevant State and Federal support programs or through the provision of other support services identified in the Action Plan for the business implementation process.

The eligibility criteria under this activity are that the business must: 

  • Be located within the Logan Priority Employment Area or fall within key sectors;
  • Employ 10 or more FTE's;
  • Have an established operating base in Queensland; and
  • Have an ABN number and be registered for GST.


For any further information please contact the Southside Regional Centre of the Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation on phone (07) 3884 7860.




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