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Smart furniture can promote greater community engagement with the outdoors in parks and open spaces, for better health and wellbeing. Since 2016 Street Furniture Australia has invested in multiple award-winning smart city research collaborations with government and universities. Join Street Furniture Australia’s Head of Innovation June Lee Boxsell to hear about the research results and lessons learnt from three key case studies, and the latest street furniture innovations, at the 2019 Parks and Leisure Conference in Perth. Time: 4.40pm, Monday October 28, 2019 (conference day two).Venue: Crown Perth, Great Eastern Hwy, Perth WARegistration: Packages available from Parks and Leisure Australia (PLA). The PLA Conference focuses on the importance of linking parks, open spaces and facilities to health, well-being and sporting performance – with talks and events from October 27 to …

Congratulations to Tweed Shire Council and the City of Greater Bendigo, both celebrating wins in their state 2019 Parks and Leisure Australia Awards. Street Furniture Australia is proud to be part of these award-winning projects. Rowan Robinson Park – Park of the Year Tweed Shire Council’s $22-million Kingscliff Foreshore revitalisation links the beach with the new central Rowan Robinson Park, and the CBD. “After years of storms and fears about the economic viability of Kingscliff with the retreating foreshore, confidence is now restored with the completion of the central park,” say the PLA Judges. The park was named in honour of Rowan Robinson, a popular Kingscliff High School student and local Surf Life Saver who lost his life serving in Afghanistan in June 2011. Since opening, the park has become …