On Sunday, Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner pledged to ‘green our suburbs’ as a part of council’s upcoming budget.
The budget is set to include $22.8 million on planting and maintaining trees across Brisbane, $107,000 on planting jacarandas in Bulimba, St Lucia and New Farm as well as $15.4 million to council’s bushland acquisition program.
However, Brisbane City Council’s opposition leader Peter Cumming dismissed the pledge as ‘nothing new’.