Customer Services and Administration Centres, Libraries and Cultural Centres will close for the Christmas and New Year period from 3.00pm on Tuesday 24 December 2024.
Council recognises that Scenic Rim boasts a unique natural environment and is committed to proactively working to preserve and enhance it in partnership with the community.
Biodiversity is crucial to the region as it contributes to the ecological balance that our important agricultural and tourism industries require to operate. In addition to being an important food bowl for the nation, the Scenic Rim’s native bushland, national parks and waterways represent the vital organs of the wider region. Council acknowledges the role of landholders, particularly primary producers, and the community as stewards of the local environment.
Biosecurity is everyone’s responsibility, and we must all play a role to ensure we minimise biosecurity risks to protect Queensland’s lifestyle, industries and environment from pests and diseases.
All people in Queensland have a general biosecurity obligation (GBO) under Queensland's Biosecurity Act 2014 to ensure they do not spread a pest, disease or a contaminant. This applies to corporations too.
This means everyone is responsible for managing biosecurity risks that are under their control; and to the best of their ability, recognise and minimise biosecurity risks within their industry, home, or places they are visiting.
Under the GBO, individuals and corporations whose activities pose a biosecurity risk must:
take all reasonable and practical steps to prevent or minimise each biosecurity risk
minimise the likelihood of causing a 'biosecurity event ', and limit the consequences if such an event is caused
prevent or minimise the harmful effects a risk could have, and not do anything that might make any harmful effects worse.
