Mr BONSON - 2006-05-02
Can the minister advise how Budget 2006-07 will deliver jobs and economic growth to the Territory through its expenditure and infrastructure?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, I thank the member for Millner for his question. $482m is the total infrastructure cash spend in this budget, and I am very proud to be Infrastructure minister to preside over that spend. That does not include the $100m spend on the waterfront development. All in all, it totals somewhere around $2.7bn in infrastructure spend since this government came to office in 2001 – very significant - record spends and record cash.
There are many new members in this House, and this is their first budget. I am sure they are now aware of what a revote means and what cash means. By now, they would be aware that, in the CLP’s last budget, the revote actually exceeded the cash. In other words, they did not even have enough money for the projects that were left from one year to another, let alone any new projects. I am sure all new members in this place join with me in their disgust at the CLP and the way they handled their infrastructure spend.
Madam Speaker, our infrastructure projects mean jobs for Territorians, 5200 jobs – that is significant. The other significant part of our infrastructure spend is that it is spent throughout the regions. We are a government that supports our regions through our infrastructure spend. I issued a press release earlier in the week about some of the spends in and around Darwin - $4.3m for the new fire station at Marrara; $5.8m for the completion of the home of soccer; and a whole range of other projects. There are other items - $25m for new power generation in Darwin …
Mrs Braham: Why did you move the payroll section to Darwin? So much for support for the regions.
Madam SPEAKER: Order!
Dr BURNS: Member for Braitling, you might be interested in $8.6m for the Desert Peoples Centre in Alice Springs; $2.9m for a new health centre in Kalkarindji; the Darwin City Waterfront development: $10m for headworks on the boundary; $1.3m for replacement of the power station at Canteen Creek in the Barkly region; and, in Alice Springs, $1.3m for headworks in Mt John Valley to assist and support the opening up of new land in Alice Springs. We are a government that is interested in economic development and support for economic development throughout the Northern Territory.
Madam Speaker, this infrastructure spend is significant. Industry knows it and the community knows it. I just hope that the members opposite can recognise and applaud it.
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, I thank the member for Millner for his question. $482m is the total infrastructure cash spend in this budget, and I am very proud to be Infrastructure minister to preside over that spend. That does not include the $100m spend on the waterfront development. All in all, it totals somewhere around $2.7bn in infrastructure spend since this government came to office in 2001 – very significant - record spends and record cash.
There are many new members in this House, and this is their first budget. I am sure they are now aware of what a revote means and what cash means. By now, they would be aware that, in the CLP’s last budget, the revote actually exceeded the cash. In other words, they did not even have enough money for the projects that were left from one year to another, let alone any new projects. I am sure all new members in this place join with me in their disgust at the CLP and the way they handled their infrastructure spend.
Madam Speaker, our infrastructure projects mean jobs for Territorians, 5200 jobs – that is significant. The other significant part of our infrastructure spend is that it is spent throughout the regions. We are a government that supports our regions through our infrastructure spend. I issued a press release earlier in the week about some of the spends in and around Darwin - $4.3m for the new fire station at Marrara; $5.8m for the completion of the home of soccer; and a whole range of other projects. There are other items - $25m for new power generation in Darwin …
Mrs Braham: Why did you move the payroll section to Darwin? So much for support for the regions.
Madam SPEAKER: Order!
Dr BURNS: Member for Braitling, you might be interested in $8.6m for the Desert Peoples Centre in Alice Springs; $2.9m for a new health centre in Kalkarindji; the Darwin City Waterfront development: $10m for headworks on the boundary; $1.3m for replacement of the power station at Canteen Creek in the Barkly region; and, in Alice Springs, $1.3m for headworks in Mt John Valley to assist and support the opening up of new land in Alice Springs. We are a government that is interested in economic development and support for economic development throughout the Northern Territory.
Madam Speaker, this infrastructure spend is significant. Industry knows it and the community knows it. I just hope that the members opposite can recognise and applaud it.
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