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Contact Details:
Dr. Yasmin Chalmers
Manager, NCS
Telephone: (03) 5022 3720
Fax: (03) 5022 3698
Email: ychalmers@sunitafe.edu.au
Mail: PO Box 1904
Mildura 3502

Alex Cross
Project Officer
Telephone: (03) 5022 3748
Fax: (03) 5022 3698
Email: across@sunitafe.edu.au
Mail: PO Box 1904
Mildura 3502

Louise Dillon
Project Officer
Fax: (03) 5036 0295
Email: ldillon@sunitafe.edu.au
Mail: PO Box 329
Swan Hill 3585

Welcome to the National Centre for Sustainability

The National Centre for Sustainability (NCS) is a collaboration of several educational institutions:

Swinburne University of Technology
Ballarat University
Challenger Institute of Technology
Sunraysia Institute of TAFE
South West Institute of TAFE
Tropical North Queensland Institute of TAFE

In the Mallee region, NCS operates from the Mildura & Swan Hill campuses of Sunraysia Institute of TAFE. It works with local stakeholders, community and government agencies to achieve sustainability gains in land and water management across the Sunraysia region. To achieve this, the Centre:

identifies potential sustainability gains
initiates sustainability projects
engages community partners
enhances the capacity of partners
implements physical change
provides project management

Our latest project is the construction of an Eco-Living Demonstration Centre adjacent to the Swan Hill campus.

The NCS works with community partners to make our landscapes and natural resources more sustainable.

We act as a project broker, harnessing resources, coordinating teams and project managing initiatives that improve the physical sustainability of our natural resources, while developing the capacity of communities to implement positive change.

Specialist NCS staff are currently working with over 40 dryland farmers to develop environmental action plans for their properties. We also have a variety of successful programs employing Koorie work teams to conserve local natural and cultural resources.