Funding for a new fibre-fed spectrograph is secured and a 70cm telescope to be located at the Mt. Kent Observatory in Southern Queensland, Australia is guaranteed.

Collaboration with colleagues at the University of Southern Queensland has led to a joint effort to construct a third SONG site in the eastern part of Australia.

The new site will consist of a 70cm telescope and a fibre-fed high resolution spectrograph with the possibility to add two additional telescopes to compensate for the smaller size of the individual telescopes.