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New June Craig Scholarship encourages women in CALM to develop their careers |
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Friday, 06 August 1999 |
A new award designed to encourage
and boost the career development of female staff within the Department
of Conservation and Land Management (CALM) has been announced by
Environment Minister Cheryl Edwardes.
A new award designed to
encourage and boost the career development of female staff within the
Department of Conservation and Land Management (CALM) has been
announced by Environment Minister Cheryl Edwardes.
Mrs
Edwardes said it was fitting that the new award be established this
year to coincide with the centenary of women's suffrage in Western
Australia.
The scholarship has been named to honour the work
of June Craig, WA's second female Cabinet Minister and the first with a
forestry-related portfolio.
"The June Craig Scholarship has
been developed to encourage all women in CALM to achieve their
aspirations and further their career development," she said.
"It will provide financial assistance of $20,000 a year that can go
towards the cost of participation in seminars, tertiary or TAFE
courses, or educational travel."
Mrs Edwardes said the award
would act as an incentive to keep knowledgeable, competent women within
CALM and reward them for their commitment.
She said that the
June Craig Trust Scholarship was one of the ways that CALM was
responding to the State Government's Plan for Women 1999-2001.
Mrs Edwardes said June Craig was a fine example of a WA woman who had
made contributing to the community and conserving the environment a way
of life, a means of self-expression and a career.
Mrs Craig
was a past Member for the former seat of Wellington and was Minister
for Lands and Forests in 1977-78. She was later Minister for Local
Government and Urban Development and Town Planning until her retirement
from Parliament in 1983.
As Minister for Lands and Forests,
she was responsible for the development of the General Working Plan for
State Forests. It was the first forests plan in WA that brought
together the whole range of forest land use objectives together with
forest policies and management strategies.
Mrs Craig was also
Australia's first woman national president of the Save the Children
Fund and Chair of Presbyterian Ladies College. She was made a Member of
the Order of Australia in 1994 in recognition of her contribution to
the community and charities.
Media contact: Steve Manchee 9421 7777 |
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