Ms SCRYMGOUR - 2011-05-05
Can you please update the House on the infrastructure initiatives in Budget 2011-12 to help families and businesses get ahead in the Barkly region?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, I thank the member for Arafura for her question and her interest in one of the powerhouse regions of the Territory. I also thank the Henderson Labor government for their investment in growth towns, and in spreading the equity across the Territory, that somehow you guys do not seem to get. Anyway, we hope that you will get it one day and you will celebrate with us. This budget delivers real money on the ground. It is to help people in growth towns and in the Barkly.
I will be very proud tomorrow morning when the people of Tennant Creek and the Barkly wake up to read about the more than $120m to improve infrastructure, services, support business, provide better schools and increase remote health services sprayed across the pages of their regional newspaper, to tell the story that this government is about building infrastructure.
I can give a bit of history to this House. I was around in the 1990s when the Country Liberal Party deserted the Barkly; when there was a minuscule capital works program; when people left in their droves; when our economy flatlined; when there were no jobs. I lived through this, and there are many other people who lived through it. For whatever reason they can give to that, that was the reality of not stimulating the economy. But worse, in the Northern Territory, people packed up and left and went across borders.
When we talk about this Labor government, and about building off the back of a record infrastructure budget last year that delivered services across health and education, corrections, business, roads, transport, infrastructure, bridges in the Barkly - the McArthur River Bridge - then we are looking at really developing a region that is going forward with incredible opportunities.
This is strategic, well-planned, thought-out and targeted to ensure the people of the Barkly are set up for the future. And it has not just …
Mr GILES: A point of order, Madam Speaker! Perhaps the minister can explain why, for $36m in SIHIP, not one house was built in Tennant Creek.
Madam SPEAKER: Member for Braitling, resume your seat! That is not a point of order!
Mr McCARTHY: Madam Speaker, there is $3.3m for the final stages of the fire safety upgrade at Tennant Creek Hospital; $3.18m for the Tennant Creek Police Station; $2m for continued delivery of major infrastructure at primary schools; $0.25m …
Mr Giles interjecting.
Madam SPEAKER: Order! Member for Braitling, cease interjecting. Member for Braitling!
Mr McCARTHY: … for the multipurpose …
Madam SPEAKER: Minister, your time has expired.
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, I thank the member for Arafura for her question and her interest in one of the powerhouse regions of the Territory. I also thank the Henderson Labor government for their investment in growth towns, and in spreading the equity across the Territory, that somehow you guys do not seem to get. Anyway, we hope that you will get it one day and you will celebrate with us. This budget delivers real money on the ground. It is to help people in growth towns and in the Barkly.
I will be very proud tomorrow morning when the people of Tennant Creek and the Barkly wake up to read about the more than $120m to improve infrastructure, services, support business, provide better schools and increase remote health services sprayed across the pages of their regional newspaper, to tell the story that this government is about building infrastructure.
I can give a bit of history to this House. I was around in the 1990s when the Country Liberal Party deserted the Barkly; when there was a minuscule capital works program; when people left in their droves; when our economy flatlined; when there were no jobs. I lived through this, and there are many other people who lived through it. For whatever reason they can give to that, that was the reality of not stimulating the economy. But worse, in the Northern Territory, people packed up and left and went across borders.
When we talk about this Labor government, and about building off the back of a record infrastructure budget last year that delivered services across health and education, corrections, business, roads, transport, infrastructure, bridges in the Barkly - the McArthur River Bridge - then we are looking at really developing a region that is going forward with incredible opportunities.
This is strategic, well-planned, thought-out and targeted to ensure the people of the Barkly are set up for the future. And it has not just …
Mr GILES: A point of order, Madam Speaker! Perhaps the minister can explain why, for $36m in SIHIP, not one house was built in Tennant Creek.
Madam SPEAKER: Member for Braitling, resume your seat! That is not a point of order!
Mr McCARTHY: Madam Speaker, there is $3.3m for the final stages of the fire safety upgrade at Tennant Creek Hospital; $3.18m for the Tennant Creek Police Station; $2m for continued delivery of major infrastructure at primary schools; $0.25m …
Mr Giles interjecting.
Madam SPEAKER: Order! Member for Braitling, cease interjecting. Member for Braitling!
Mr McCARTHY: … for the multipurpose …
Madam SPEAKER: Minister, your time has expired.
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