NEWS AND EVENTS
RAPID RELIEF TEAM FIGHTS FIRES IN VICTORIA
The Rapid Relief Team (RRT) of Boronia and Berwick have been working tirelessly to support the brave firefighters and emergency personnel battle the blazes in Victoria. 82 RRT volunteers have been working alongside emergency services serving more than 4,000 meals to...
RAPID RELIEF TEAM SUPPORTS TASSIE POLLIE PEDAL
The Rapid Relief Team (RRT) is throwing their support behind this year’s Pollie Pedal, which sees politicians ride hundreds of kilometres around Southern Tasmania to raise money for diabetes. Diabetes Tasmania’s annual three-day bike brings together politicians in the...
RAPID RELIEF TEAM HELPS FIRIES FIGHT FIRES
Over the past week, the Rapid Relief Team (RRT) has been working around the clock to support and feed emergency service workers who continue to fight out-of-control bush fires in Tasmania, Victoria and New South Wales. Across the last month, the charity has worked...
NZ PRIME MINISTER SUPPORTS AUSSIE CHARITY
New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, today showed her support for the Rapid Relief Team (RRT) who have been feeding hundreds of emergency services personnel and Defence staff battling forest fires in the New Zealand Nelson-Tasman region. Since Tuesday, local NZ...
AUSSIE CHARITY STEPS IN TO HELP FURLOUGHED US GOV WORKERS
The Australian-based charity, the Rapid Relief Team (RRT), provided free meals to furloughed Federal Transport Security Administration (TSA) workers across the United States. Thousands of hot meals were provided at dozens of major United States airports, to people...
BY LAND AND BY SEA, CONVOY DELIVERS DROUGHT RELIEF TO GOULBURN
Two hundred tonnes of donated hay, and hope, has today been delivered to drought-stricken farmers in the greater Goulburn area by the Rapid Relief Team (RRT). A barge laden with 450 hay bales traversed Bass Strait from Bridport, Tasmania, to Port Welshpool in...
WOODTHORPE SCHOOL RANKED ONE OF AUSTRALIA’S BEST SCHOOLS
Parents throughout Australia desire for their children to learn through modern educational practices and within technology-rich learning environments. Teachers at Woodthorpe School have now exceeded this expectation, recently taking the School to new heights. The...
DELIVERING HAY AND HOPE TO OUTBACK QUEENSLAND
The Rapid Relief Team (RRT) has once again hit the road to deliver hay and a helping hand to drought-stricken farmers and their families in need. At the epicentre of the drought crisis, the Charleville and Cunnamulla regions received some welcome relief this week, as...
DELIVERING HAY, HOPE AND H20 TO FARMERS IN NEW ENGLAND
As the rain fell in Gunnedah, thirty road trains and semi-trailers loaded with 1,000 tonnes of hay and hope arrived in the New England and Northwest areas to deliver relief to 200 more drought-stricken farmers and their families. The hay was donated by the Rapid...
THE ULTIMATE ENDURANCE CHALLENGE HONOURS THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE
On Saturday 21 July 2018, more than 130 brave participants competed in Legacy Brisbane’s Canungra Combat Challenge, at Kokoda Barracks. Teams competed to raise more than $80,000 for Legacy Brisbane to care for families of Australian Defence Force men and women who...