FOLLOW
RICK

WHAT WE'VE
DELIVERED
FOR YOU

FUNDING & SUPPORT
- 04/2019
- BREAKING THE SILENCE
$2.3 million – To help regional communities gain access to support services
- 07/2017
- MOBILE BLACKSPOT PROGRAM
New/upgraded mobile base station to increase mobile coverage at Beaumont
- 09/2017
- MOBILE BLACKSPOT PROGRAM
New/upgraded mobile base station to increase mobile coverage at Dalyup
- 11/2016
- MOBILE BLACKSPOT PROGRAM
New/upgraded mobile base station to increase mobile coverage at Dalyup North
- 02/2017
- MOBILE BLACKSPOT PROGRAM
New/upgraded mobile base station to increase mobile coverage at Fisheries Road
- 09/2017
- MOBILE BLACKSPOT PROGRAM
New/upgraded mobile base station to increase mobile coverage at Grass Patch East
- 09/2017
- MOBILE BLACKSPOT PROGRAM
New/upgraded mobile base station to increase mobile coverage at Merivale
- 05/2018
- MOBILE BLACKSPOT PROGRAM
New/upgraded mobile base station to increase mobile coverage at Mt Burdett
- 09/2017
- MOBILE BLACKSPOT PROGRAM
New/upgraded mobile base station to increase mobile coverage at Neridup
- 05/2017
- MOBILE BLACKSPOT PROGRAM
New/upgraded mobile base station to increase mobile coverage at Scadden West
- 06/2020
- 2020 - VOLUNTEER GRANTS
Esperance Royal Flying Doctor Service:
$2685 – Food Tent and Equipment for Fundraising
- 03/2019
- ESPERANCE DOG FENCE
$1.95 million – To build wild dog fence
- 01/2020
- 2020 - VOLUNTEER GRANTS
Scaddan Bowling Club:
$1,400 For Umpiring Equipment
- 01/2020
- 2020 - VOLUNTEER GRANTS
Esperance Volunteer Fire & Rescue Service:
$3,244 For Computer Equipment
- 01/2020
- 2020 - VOLUNTEER GRANTS
Esperance Theatre Guild:
$2,000 For Course fees including travel and accommodation
- 01/2020
- 2020 - VOLUNTEER GRANTS
Esperance St John Ambulance:
$3,080 To Purchase Finger Pulse Oximeters for 8 ambulances
- 01/2020
- 2020 - VOLUNTEER GRANTS
Esperance RSL Sub Branch:
$4,435 To Upgrade PA System and Laptop
- 01/2020
- 2020 - VOLUNTEER GRANTS
Esperance Royal Flying Doctor Service:
$2,685 For Food Tent and Equipment for Fundraising
- 01/2020
- 2020 - VOLUNTEER GRANTS
Esperance Goldfields Surf Lifesaving Club:
$1,050 To Purchase New laptop
- 01/2020
- 2020 - VOLUNTEER GRANTS
Esperance Care Services:
$4,232 To Purchase 8 Upright Trolleys
- 01/2020
- 2020 - VOLUNTEER GRANTS
103.9 Hope FM Community Radio:
$2,210 for Computer equipment and generator
- 02/2019
- BUILDING BETTER REGIONS FUND
$4 million – The Esperance Tanker Jetty Replacement project
- 12/2015
- 2015 VOLUNTEER GRANTS
$2100 Esperance Community Arts Incorporated
- 12/2015
- 2015 VOLUNTEER GRANTS
$5000 The Cannery Arts Centre Incorporated
- 12/2016
- 2016 VOLUNTEER GRANTS
$2862 Esperance Care Services Inc
- 12/2016
- 2016 VOLUNTEER GRANTS
$3712 Festival Of The Wind Inc
- 12/2016
- 2016 VOLUNTEER GRANTS
$3825 Esperance Sonshine Broadcaster’s Inc
- 12/2016
- 2016 VOLUNTEER GRANTS
$4850 Esperance Library Friends (ELF) Inc.
- 12/2016
- 2016 VOLUNTEER GRANTS
$2265 Esperance Football & Sporting Club Inc
- 12/2016
- 2016 VOLUNTEER GRANTS
$2429 Esperance Community Arts (Inc)
- 12/2015
- AUSTRALIAN DISABILITY ENTERPRISE
$138716 Employment Assistance, Activ Foundation Inc
- 11/2014
- COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GRANTS FUND
$400000 Esperance Waterfront sustainable infrastructure
- 01/2017
- LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
$4,812,365 LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
- 12/2017
- BUILDING BETTER REGIONS FUND - ROUND 1 (Community Investment Stream)
$20,000 Esperance Arts and Culture Trail (EACT)
- 10/2015
- STRONGER COMMUNITIES PROGRAMME
$15,000 Esperance Tennis Club Repair & Resurface Courts
- 10/2015
- STRONGER COMMUNITIES PROGRAMME
$15,000 Esperance Surf Life Saving Club replacement of solar/diesel power system
- 10/2015
- STRONGER COMMUNITIES PROGRAMME
$5,000 Esperance Soccer Assn Canteen Upgrade
- STRONGER COMMUNITIES PROGRAMME
$15,000 Esperance Bay Yacht Club Sailing Dinghy Shed Upgrade
- STRONGER COMMUNITIES PROGRAMME
$19,650 Cannery Arts Centre Eat Grow Share, Connecting Community Through Food
- 02/2019
- Community Sporting Infrastructure Grants
$50,000 Esperance Velodrome Upgrade
- Building Better Regions Fund
$20,000 Esperance Arts and Cultural Trail.
- Stronger Communities Program
$15,000 Esperance Bay Yatcht Club Sailing Dinghy Shed Upgrade
- 11/2016
- CAPITAL GRANTS FOR NON-GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
$710,000 Esperance Anglican Community School, Construction of learning areas
- 11/2016
- CAPITAL GRANTS FOR NON-GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
$182,500 Wongutha Christian Aboriginal Parent Directed School
- 04/2019
- 2019/2020 FEDERAL BUDGET
$4 million – For the Esperance tanker jetty replacement project
- 01/2017
- GREEN ARMY
Conservation Volunteers Australia This project will deliver environmental benefits to eastern part of the south coast region
- 01/2017
- LANDCARE
$604,100 Increasing sustainable agriculture practice in the indigenous landholder
- 01/2017
- LANDCARE
$20,000 Sustainable food production and production in Esperance region
- 01/2017
- TWENTY MILLION TREES
$59,644 South Coast Natural Resource Management Inc Lake Warden Catchment.
- 01/2017
- TWENTY MILLION TREES
$59,644 Lake Warden catchment reverting farmland back to bush
- 08/2019
- NDIS TRANSITION
$9,000 – Bay of Isles Community Outreach Inc to build workforce and capabilities
- 12/2013
- 2013-14 HOME AND COMMUNITY CARE PROGRAMME
$9,535 Shire of Esperance
- 01/2015
- 2015 AGED CARE APPROVALS ROUND
$1,860,000 Esperance Aged Care Facility – 30 Residential care places
- 01/2015
- 2015 AGED CARE APPROVALS ROUND
$313,000 Esperance Home Care – 10 Home care places
- 12/2016
- 2016-17 HOME AND COMMUNITY CARE PROGRAMME
$26,114 Shire of Esperance – Transport, personal care and meals at home, recurrent
- 12/2016
- 2016-17 HOME AND COMMUNITY CARE PROGRAMME
$3,650 Shire of Esperance – equipment for domestic assistance services, one off amount
- 12/2015
- CAPITAL GRANTS
$3,100,000 Esperance Aged Care Facility – Aged care approvals round 2015
- 12/2016
$3,410,000 Esperance Aged Care Facility Inc – Rural, regional and other special needs building fund
- 12/2015
$218,795 Shire of Esperance – Flexible respite
- 12/2015
$117,811 Shire of Esperance – Centre based respite
- 12/2015
$15,000 Commonwealth Home and Community Care Programme
- 12/2014
$101,020 Volunteers reducing social exclusion for Australian’s receiving residential and home care packages
- 12/2017
- BUSINESS GROWTH GRANTS
$8,980 The Trustee for Nulsen Family Trust – Undertake mentoring/coaching activities and strategic business activities
- 12/2017
- INDUSTRY SKILLS FUND
$10,084 The Trustee for the Poole Trust
- 01/2016
- PROGRAMME SUPPORT
$2,200 Esperance CCI -AusIndustry event support Over the Horizon 2016 Event
- 12/2017
- SKILLS FOR EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
$117,536 SMYL Community Services – language, numeracy and literacy skills to job seekers
- 12/2014
- BLACK SPOT PROGRAMME
$292,254 Grass Patch Road Swan Lagoon Road GRASS PATCH
- 12/2014
- BLACK SPOT PROGRAMME
$1,450,000 South Coast Highway Napier Road DALYUP
- 12/2014
- HEAVY VEHICLE SAFETY AND PRODUCTIVITY PROGRAMME
$300,000 Construction of heavy vehicle bay – South Coast Hwy between Esperance and Ravensthorpe
- 03/2014
- ROADS TO RECOVERY
$12,015,071 ROADS TO RECOVERY
- 03/2014
$2,000,000 PortLink Inland Freight Corridor Concept Plan
- 01/2015
- COMMUNITY COMMEMORATIVE GRANTS
$3,256 Esperance RSL – Saluting Their Services Commerative Program, plaques to commemorate East Timor, Iraq, Afghanistan and the Gulf War

MEET RICK
I was inspired to run for Parliament following my involvement in a decade-long campaign to deregulate the wheat industry, which brought about the end of the Australian Wheat Board’s monopoly.