The ACT Government will create and protect thousands of local jobs through a $5 billion pipeline of local infrastructure projects.
With 250 projects and 14 ongoing programs of work already underway, the infrastructure program will protect more than 15,300 construction jobs, help our economy recover and reach a goal of more than 250,000 local jobs by 2025.
Jobs will be in the areas of health, education, public transport, public housing, sustainable energy and urban renewal. Read details about the project below.
Health
$877 million will be allocated to health and community wellbeing infrastructure over five years to 2025-26, including new funding for projects such as:
- A Cancer Research Centre at the Canberra Hospital
- Infrastructure upgrades at Calvary Public Hospital
- Planning for a new carpark at the Canberra Hospital
- Planning and design for a future hospital in Canberra’s north.
An artist’s impression of the Canberra Hospital expansion
Education
A total of $950 million of funding invested in CIT and education infrastructure over the next five years will ensure that every child has a place at a great local public school. This investment includes:
- Expanding Margaret Hendry School
- Building a new high school in Taylor
- Building nine new modular learning centres and design works for a new primary school at Strathnairn
- A modernised Narrabundah College
- Road infrastructure for East Gungahlin High School
- Funding to prepare to modernise Garran Primary School.
Funding will include the expansion of Margaret Hendry School
Transport
Funding of $1.4 billion will allow for upgrades to our city’s sustainable and connected transport system, upgrades to roads and paths and improvements to active travel routes across Canberra. Projects include:
- The first light rail stop for stage two of light rail to Woden
- Detailed design and construction of the Sulwood Drive shared path and the duplication of William Hovell Drive.
Funding will include the first light rail stop for stage two of light rail to Woden
Upgrades of major venues
Funding of $8.5 million will be allocated in 2021-22 to upgrade and improve major venues that host major sporting and other events in Canberra. This includes:
- Consultation and planning works for a staged expansion of Exhibition Park in Canberra
- A new video replay board and upgrades to GIO Stadium
- A new video score board and upgrades to Manuka Oval
- A feasibility study for a second sealed access road for the National Arboretum Canberra
- Funding of $2.9 million over two years allocated for detailed design work for carpark upgrades at Stromlo Forest Park.
Emergency services
Emergency services will receive a boost of more than $12 million for upgrades to the facilities across our emergency services including:
- Refurbishments for the Gungahlin Joint Emergency Services Centre
- A new state of the art fire-fighting tanker purchased at a cost of $550,000, fitted out with appropriate safety equipment in preparation for the 2020-21 bushfire season and to protect our environment.
Community facilities
Planning and upgrades for new community facilities across Canberra include:
- $18.7 million for local shopping centre upgrades
- $9 million to progress the Throsby Home of Football
- $300,000 over two years for a feasibility and design study, including a co-design process to determine a delivery approach for community facilities in Gungahlin
- $1.65 million over three years for detailed design work for the Southern Memorial Park
- $15 million over three years to deliver a purpose-built facility for Gugan Gulwan Youth Aboriginal Corporation at its current Wanniassa location to ensure it can continue to deliver vital services for children, young people and families
- Another $5 million to continue the Healthy Waterways Project
- $3 million over four years for detailed design and construction for a new community recreation park in Casey.
- $600,000 for improved and new amenities for Yerrabi Pond District Park
- $2.8 million over two years to begin design and consultation to transform the Acton Waterfront into a place for people in the heart of our city
- $5.3 million will also be invested in new or upgraded play spaces in Kaleen, Ngunnawal, Chisholm, Gordon, Lyons and Aranda
- Over the next five years, infrastructure investment to promote community support, housing and safety will total $935 million, including over $580 million for public housing growth and renewal
- Hundreds of millions of dollars will also be allocated to medium and small-scale projects that make Canberra a sustainable and liveable city.
In addition to the $5 billion of investment by the General Government Sector, an additional $1.4 billion will be invested by Public Trading Enterprises over the next five years which will result in a record $1.3 billion in 2021-22 and $6.4 billion over the five years to 2025-26.
The full ACT Budget will be released on 6 October 2021.
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