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Information BulletinCorrespondence & PapersPage Cor-34more than 20,000 tonnes of material from landfill since its inception in 1999. For furtherinformation or to register your containers for the program, you can call the Head Office on1800 008 707, email Allan McGann at allanmcgann@agsafe.com.au or jump onto thewebsite.New funding announced for national touring exhibitionsArts Minister Simon Crean has announced $1.4 million of Federal Government funding tosupport exhibitions visiting 53 communities across the nation.The funding will support the touring of exhibitions to every state and territory and 28 of theexhibitions will visit regional Australia.Australian infrastructure report card shows little changeEngineers Australia 2010 Australian Infrastructure Report Card has found that little or noreal overall progress has been made in the past 5 years, despite some attempts to make upfor past under-spending.The report found that a large proportion of Australia's infrastructure is reaching the end ofits useful life. Increasingly, owners will have to spend money on replacement of ageingassets, not only to meet the needs of an expanding population, but also to cater forincreasing minerals and gas exports.The capital investment on infrastructure required over the next decade will be verysignificant. But one of the areas that can easily be overlooked is the need to ensure thatwhole-of-life operational performance and maintenance costs are covered. While short-termsavings can be made by reducing maintenance, the end-result is inevitably more expensiveand disruptive.SecondBite celebrates five years of food savedFood charity SecondBite yesterday celebrated its fifth birthday, and a total of 3.5 millionnutritious meals provided to those in need - representing around 1,700 tonnes of fresh foodsaved from landfill. SecondBite is a not-for-profit organisation which sources quality surplusfresh food that would otherwise go to waste, and redistributes it to agencies and people inneed. Each week SecondBite delivers fresh produce to over 160 agencies throughout Victoriaand Tasmania. SecondBite has also invested in research into some of the more complexissues surrounding food security, resulting in a number of revolutionary programs that havebeen launched in the last five years.One of these is SecondBite Community Connect, a ground breaking model of redistributingsurplus food to community groups, where SecondBite partners a local community foodprogram with a local food donor to enable nutritious surplus fresh food to be collected anddistributed to people in need.SEQ drought likely caused by 'climate variability'The recent South-East Queensland (SEQ) drought was likely caused by shifts associated withclimate variability over decades rather than climate change, according to the findings of ateam of CSIRO researchers led by Dr Wenju Cai.