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Your ATDW listing is one of the most powerful, and often overlooked, marketing tools available to tourism businesses. Join us on Thursday 15 October for an online workshop to discover how your ATDW listing powers your presence across Victoria’s High Country, Visit Victoria and more.

Overwhelmed by how to market your tourism business? Tourism North East is hosting two small-group Visitor Ready workshops in Benalla (27/10) and Corryong (10/11) to help you build confidence, boost online visibility and convert interest into bookings. Find out more and register now.

Looking to boost farm productivity and expand property coverage? Round 3 of the On-Farm Connectivity Program offers primary producers rebates from $1K – $20K for connected agtech, sensors, and equipment. Applications close on 15 October 2026, with priority given to first-time applicants.

Round 23 of Festivals Australia is now open for applications, supporting community participation in, and access to, the arts in regional and remote areas. Applications close October 13th, 2026.

Are you passionate about your town’s history and keen to share it with a wider audience? Join an upcoming webinar on 9 September, Hands-on-History: How to Bring Your Local History to Life, created especially for people who work or volunteer with regional historical societies and heritage organisations.

Join us on 22 October for an in-person workshop designed to help High Country accommodation providers optimise pricing strategies and market positioning. Learn how to leverage local research data and revenue management tactics to drive higher profitability and bookings for your accommodation business.

Join the team from Tourism North East on Tuesday 6th October as we welcome our guest speaker from Quantum Market Research for a presentation of our latest research: Visitor Spend and Wallet Prioritisation.

The Amex Shop Small Grants program is offering up to 100 grants of $20K nationwide to support small businesses to grow, innovate and support their local communities. Applications close Sunday 6 September 2026.

Round 3 of the Revive Live open competitive grant opportunity is now open for applications and will close on Friday, 28 August 2026.

NAB Foundation Community Grants funds local ideas and projects to help communities withstand and recover from natural disasters. Learn how to apply. Applications to Round 2 close on 14 September, 2026.

Wine Victoria is inviting Regional Wine Associations to propose locally relevant, community-led activities that support mental health, wellbeing, connection and resilience in regional wine communities.

As of 3rd August, seven cases of H5 bird flu have been confirmed in Victoria. There remain no H5 bird flu detections in poultry or other livestock in Australia, and risk to human health of H5 bird flu remains low.