A major sporting facility in the City of Bunbury recently underwent a digital transformation to reduce energy consumption and improve efficiency, with help from VROC.

‘These automations work together to help optimise the Cities resources, and improve services to the community.’
– Mal Osborne, Chief Executive Officer

The Objective

Hay Park is a major sporting facility in the City of Bunbury, Western Australia, used throughout the year by a wide range of sporting clubs and community groups. The City found that the sporting ground lights were commonly left on, resulting in excess power consumption, inaccurate billings and inefficiencies for council facility teams, who could …

Though Indigenous agricultural practices and generations-old traditions are rarely codified by federal or academic institutions, they are often some of the most effective sustainable practices given their ecological and historical grounding. Dedicated federal funding can be a crucial method for supporting the elevation and implementation of sustainable agricultural practices informed by Indigenous tradition.

Like other experience-built sustainable agriculture methods, traditional Indigenous knowledge and agricultural practices often operate outside of federally-supported frameworks. Sustainable methods are built through generations of direct experience and grounded in practical context, rather than academic abstraction. Indigenous agricultural practices and traditions are frequently passed by word of mouth or …