Australia’s Federal Infrastructure Budget for 2021
The Australian government has announced an additional $15.2 billion in new infrastructure funding in the 2021-22 Budget to help aid economic recovery from the CCP virus pandemic.
The additional funding adds to the $110 billion 10-year building plan investment that already formed part of the National Economic Recovery Plan which the government says will support around 30,000 jobs across the country.
Nation-building projects were the focus of the infrastructure spending, with a $1 billion boost for the Local Roads and Community Infrastructure Program, bringing the total commitment to $2.5 billion, and another $1 billion to the now $3 billion Road Safety Program.
$400 million additional funding for the Bruce Highway
$178.1 million for line capacity improvement on the Gold Coast Rail Line from Kuraby to Beenleigh
$126.6 million for stage three of the Gold Coast Light Rail
$240 million for the Cairns Western Arterial Road duplication
$400 million for upgrades to the inland freight route from Mungindi to Charters Towers
$160 million for the Mooloolah River interchange upgrade
$203.4 million for local road and community infrastructure projects, and $261 million for road safety projects
Total - $2 billion
BUDGET EXPLAINED:
NSW, SA snag lion’s share of budget infrastructure spending
By Fergus Halliday
11 May 2021
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NSW, SA and Victoria have snagged the lion’s share of infrastructure spending in the latest federal budget.
As revealed in the 2021 budget, the government is committing an additional $15.2 billion to infrastructure projects over the next ten years. This will bump the total federal commitment to $110 billion, with the additional spending said to account for 30,000 new jobs over the decade.
At a federal level, both the Local Roads and Community Infrastructure Program and Road Safety Program are being extended for another year at the cost of $1 billion each.
In the little town of Andover in Oxford County, is a neat little cave that is not well known.
But Chris Lee knows this secret hideaway. It s more visited in the summer as a place to cool off with waterfalls and a swimming hole.
But if you are an adventurous type, winter is just beautiful. Chris really captured how gorgeous the Devil s Den really is.
According to
Only In Your State - it s only a stone s throw away from the Silver Ripple Cascade.
Chris says they call this place
the poor man s Ice Castles .
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Chris says it s not a very long walk and it s packed down snow, because it s also a snowmobile trail.