RECORD FUNDING FOR LOCAL ROADS IN PILBARA
Over the next five years, local councils across the Pilbara region will receive unprecedented Federal financial help to maintain and upgrade their local roads.
Parliamentary Secretary for Regional Development and Northern Australia, Gary Gray, said the Rudd Labor Government would provide local councils in the Pilbara region with $10,728,187 from its $1.75 billion Roads to Recovery program.
"The unprecedented level of Federal funding will not only help to maintain and upgrade local roads, it will also support local jobs and businesses during the current global financial crisis," he said.
"This funding can be used for any road works, with councils able to spend their allocations on the local priorities identified by local communities."
The five year allocation (2009/10 to 2013/14) for each local council is:
Shire of Ashburton - $3,167,802;
Shire of East Pilbara - $3,974,717;
Town of Port Hedland - $1,720,775;
Shire of Roebourne - $1,864,893.
These funding allocations are based on the recommendations of State/Territory Local Government grants commissions.
"Last year, the Rudd Labor Government extended the program for a further five years and boosted its funding to $1.75 billion - an extra $250 million when compared to the previous government's allocation," Mr Gray said.
"This is a significant investment in the safety and condition of local roads.
"All up, our record roads funding for the nation's councils and shires will deliver more than 20,000 minor road projects in every part of the country over the next five years."
In addition to Roads to Recovery, the Rudd Labor Government is also providing the nation's councils with:
A record $1.9 billion in Financial Assistance Grants this financial year alone;
$800 million from the Community Infrastructure Program - the largest ever Federal investment in local infrastructure.
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Goatch
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Throwing some money around ,,
Who is going to pay for it . Lets just borrow some more money and put us in more shit than we are already in !!!
I'm all for new roads and fixing the ones we've got but I remember the 80's and early 90's fiscal policies( and 18% Home loans) LOL
Just one more cast , honest !!!
Deegs
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promises promises
probable be like last time some project in the city blows it buget and low and behold where do they extract the money from the north west. stupid rail way line to Mandurah.
believe it when I see it. that money ain't nothing compared to what they took to do the rail line approx $75 000 000 I think
7739ian
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Try driving
from Bunbury to Perth and back on the same day like i did yesterday - if old Alannah Iron Tits hadn't put in the Southern Rail system the so called "Freeway" would block up from Baldivis to the Narrows.
mitch
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im told the cost of building
im told the cost of building roads is a million a mile. ye ha ten miles of politcal shite .yep deegs i think rail works on the same concept 1 mill for every mile .hense 75 mil to build the railine to mandurah
always in it just the depth that varies
hlokk
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Though most roads dont tend
Though most roads dont tend to have new railway stations ever so many k's ;)
On the plus side with new roads, they cant blow the budget or time any worse than the railway... but then people always find a way to prove you wrong.
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railway and roads
I think that railway was one of the most progressive and smartest investments made in the last few decades. Next we need light rail around the city, and regional railway links. Petrol-powered cars are a dying breed. Cept for fishing and other holiday trips. ;-) And heavy transport.
Like it or not, thousands of people use the railway every day. I should imagine, more per km than any country road. Still, roads remain the only economically viable link for people who live outside the city, and that should be respected. It will change soon though, I think.
I reckon in the next 50 years we will see people saving up the petrol money they need to travel to their favourite holiday destination, not taking it for granted as we do now. The cost of living, and freighting goods long distances will also continue to increase, as it has been, and cause questions about the viability of many regional areas. I dont think this is a good thing, just the way it will be.
And there will be nothing local, state or federal govts will be able to do about it. For crying out loud, local water costs more than mineral oils pumped out of water 100's of metres deep, or from deserts in other continents...something has to give...
As for interest rate cycles...well, they are cycles arent they?? I think things have been too cheap in the last few years...I reckon that we (collectively) dont need most of the stuff which is bought on cheap credit...belts need tightening, all the signs the planet is showing us says so...how long do we ignore it? Even the economic signals are now there. Continuing economic growth doesnt make any sense to me no matter which way I look at it. Its like we have our head in the sand. Money comes from the production of goods and services. Goods are finite, and services are derived directly from them, the way things are.
Perhaps we will have to ride a juggernaught to apocalypse, or maybe we can be smart and pre-empt things, accept that we can't have everything, and be content with a finite world, and adjust accordingly? hmmm. perhaps I shouldnt have had that last rum...apologies for the heaviness
But it comes back to fishing. We need to look after our local areas, cos one day we wont be able to afford to drive further to seek greener pastures, as many of us do these days...it is always worth noting that they used to catch dhufish from rowboats out off Marmion...
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Wake up Ewan
We are not the polluters of this world. Our contrabution is bugger all. Go tell the 125000000 Chinese or the 12000000 Indians .
till
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Actually australia is one of
Actually australia is one of the higest emitters in the world because we're large primary producers.
True enough a lot of businesses, Australian and otherwise, do manufacturer in China & India because they have such low saftey and emission controls.
hlokk
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In 2004 we were 19th, with
In 2004 we were 19th, with about 1.2% of the emissions. Per capita, we were 13th
The US and China are the biggest emitters making up around 40% of the emissions (the US with a lot more per capita though.
Thats just CO2 though, other pollution gets more varied/complicated.
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Perhaps we could be an example?
out wide
maybe we could lead the way, given our wealth and high quality of living?
Why should billions of poor people stop polluting when millions of rich ones don't?
My post was mostly about the price of fuel, which will increase as available reserves run low. Which they must, being a finite resource in a growing economic world.
Anyone else feel the pinch of $1.80 fuel when towing a boat up/down the coast? It will get higher again, and past this value, sure enough.
So, rather than invest too much in roads, they should be investing more in mass transport, which they did with the Mandurah railway.
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