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Queensland’s resource communities can apply for funding for infrastructure projects that will benefit the community and the regional workers and their families that live in those communities.
Applications open today for project funding under the Palaszczuk Government’s $100 million Resources Community Infrastructure Fund.
Deputy Premier and State Development Minister Steven Miles said the fund would deliver infrastructure in regional communities that would improve liability, support jobs and provide a boost to the economy as part of Queensland’s COVID-19 Economic Recovery Plan.
“According to the QRC the resources sector employs around 84,000 workers and directly supports 15,200 Queensland businesses,” Mr Miles said.
An experienced director and chief executive officer of community-based health and welfare organisations has been appointed to the Central West Hospital.
A Charleville resident, experienced board director and former country council Mayor, along with a retired army Brigadier have been appointed to the South.
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Patients in the central west will soon be able to receive treatment closer to home, with the announcement Longreach will receive a new $2.7 million renal dialysis unit.
The new nurse-assisted, two-chair dialysis unit is expected to be operational at Longreach Hospital by the end of 2022.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the Central West Hospital and Health Service had been allocated funding as part of the government’s expansion of rural and remote renal dialysis services.
The funding is part of the government’s $27.7 million election commitment to deliver 33 renal dialysis treatment spaces across regional Queensland.
“Keeping Queenslanders safe and creating jobs are my two main priorities,” she said.