FAREWELL FROM THE GREATER BRISBANE AREA CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE

The GBACC is in the process of winding up and will be closed by the end of September 2009.

The office phones were disconnected on 4 September and all contact now is via Margaret Blade, Transition

Manager, mobile: 0419 751 846 and email: mblade@gbacc.com.au.

ACCs throughout Australia are being closed down and replaced with Regional Development Australia (RDA)
committees created as a bilateral arrangement between the Australian and State Governments.
For further information, please go to www.rda.gov.au

The Brisbane South ACC commenced in December 1994 under the then Federal Government’s Working
National framework. Its role was to support employment creation and labour market programs on
Brisbane ’s southside and Redland Shire. The organisation incorporated in 1997 and expanded to include
the Logan area of the disbanded Logan & Districts ACC, then merged in 2000 with the Brisbane North ACC
to become the Greater Brisbane ACC Inc.

Over that time there have been 4 Chairs, 82 members and over 20 staff who have all contributed to the
region’s employment, economic and community development. 

We are very proud to have been part of the ACC and its achievements, which have included the approval
of $4.4M of Regional Partnerships projects and an additional $4.5M in other Federal Government regional
and business development funding over the years. These funds have leveraged many more millions of
dollars in co-funding. We secured and undertook several third-party contracts for Indigenous employment
and training projects and in business development, and staged many community capacity activities and
facilitated partnerships throughout Brisbane, Logan and Redlands .

GBACC Chair Bill Watson, in his report to the recent final Annual General Meeting, paid tribute to the
volunteer members for their continued interest and commitment in what has been a challenging year of
transition and resultant wind down. Many of our members have a long and distinguished record of service
with the ACC and some of them are seeking appointment to one of the new RDA committees.  

Bill Watson also recognised and thanked the staff – Margaret Blade, Alice Langford and Amity Evans -
who have collectively amassed over 30 years’ of work experience with the ACC and are now seeking new
career opportunities.

The GBACC also values you - its partners, stakeholders and supporters - who have worked with us in
delivering results for the region, and congratulates all who have participated in the significant contribution
to regional development in Greater Brisbane over the last 15 years.