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TY’A BACKS BURSARIES
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UNIVERSITY student Ty’a Dynevor is urging Indigenous students to apply for a grant to help them through university. Indigenous students from across the Wet Tropics region can apply for a grant from NRM Terrain’s Natural Capital Fund Indigenous Education Bursary Program to help with studies and future employment opportunities in environmental and agricultural fields. Ms Dynevor (right) was given $3000 last year and is in her third year of a Bachelor of Science, majoring in zoology and ecology at James Cook University in Cairns.
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Premiums fall
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Insurance quotes drop after companies join reinsurance pool l FNQ | Nick Dalton THE cost of property insurance premiums in the Far North is starting to fall as insurers start joining the $10 billion Northern
Australia Reinsurance Pool. Federal Leichhardt MP Warren Entsch, who has been behind the pool, said since Sure and Allianz had become involved, quotes had fallen. “Personally, I insured with
Sure. In April I received a renewal from another company and it was ridiculous,” he said. Mr Enstch said he requested a price from Sure and it was nearly half for his house at Park Ridge. “They are very competitive.
There is some limited strata (title) cover but there will be more when some of the bigger companies come in,” he said. “I have been referring people who contact my office to Sure and Allianz and the feedback
we are receiving is that they have been getting more competitive quotes.” Mr Enstch said more insurance companies would be joining the pool.
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