Arriving in Australia from New Caledonia with my husband and three children a little over a decade ago, I was expecting a friendly reception. Happily, that’s exactly what we got – Australians are such friendly people!

Almost 600 kilometres north of Adelaide on the traditional lands of the Kokatha people lies the small, and infinitely remote, mining town of Roxby Downs.

We’re proud to launch our new Sustainability Performance Framework to make it easier for responsible officers in local government to keep their environmental progress on track.

If 2022 taught us nothing else, it affirmed that the diversity of projects we do is key to the thinking our current and future clients can rely on to help them achieve their goals.

Awards are just one way to measure value of a program. But when we learned we’d helped The City of Salisbury win the SA Health and Environmental Health Australia Awards, we were happy to talk all things mosquito surveillance at the recent Environmental Health Australia SA Conference.

At Healthy Environs we're pleased to have recently joined Community Centres SA (the peak body for over 100 community and neighbourhood centres located across metropolitan Adelaide and regional South Australia). As managers of a remote Community Hub facility and outreach programs, membership with Community Centres SA has given us access to a network of centre operators who (like us) are working to build strong and healthy communities.

Men’s Health Week is celebrated annually across the world. Men’s Health Week recognises the unique health and wellbeing challenges of men and boys and provides the opportunity to put not just physical health, but also men's mental health and emotional wellbeing in focus.

Healthy Environs has been working closely with Whyalla City Council to help develop their Public Health Plan, which is now open for community consultation.

The plan contains a number of key themes that represent the key community priorities.

At Healthy Environs we’re delighted to give tertiary students an opportunity to gain work experience in their area of study. Right now, we’re pleased to have Asha Bainbridge on placement with us from the University of Southern Queensland.

What a great event to celebrate RUOK Day 2021. Our Roxby Community Hub team held a popular morning tea event to raise awareness on RUOK day, working with our partners: BHP, the Roxby Council, the Roxby Downs Pharmacy and local small businesses.

Here at Healthy Environs, we’re celebrating our tenth birthday. We couldn’t have reached this milestone without the clients, staff, partners and community that have supported and joined us along the way. Thank you!