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Title

QUESTIONS ON NOTICE

Roads to Recovery Program Funding

Database

Senate Hansard

Date

14-06-2005

Source

Senate

Parl No.

41

Electorate

Western Australia

Interjector

 

Page

150

Party

ALP

Presenter

 

Status

Final

Question No.

185

Questioner

Bishop, Sen Mark

Responder

Campbell, Sen Ian

Speaker

 

Stage

Roads to Recovery Program Funding

Type

 

Context

Answers to Questions on Notice

System Id

chamber/hansards/2005-06-14/0158


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Tuesday, 14 June 2005
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Senator Mark Bishop asked the Minister representing the Minister for Transport and Regional Services, upon notice, on 17 December 2004:

Under Auslink how will priorities within the funds currently allocated to the Roads to Recovery Program be decided with respect to national, state and local government involvement.


Senator Ian Campbell (Minister for the Environment and Heritage) —The Minister for Transport and Regional Services has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question:

Roads to Recovery funding will be provided under the following streams under AusLink:

(a)   $1.2 billion direct to councils over the four years commencing on 1 July 2005;

(b)   $150 million over 5 years beginning in 2004-05 for the regional strategic component of AusLink ($30 million of this has already been appropriated and is available in this financial year), including $30 million from 2005-06 to 2008-09 to the Governments of NSW, Victoria, South Australia and the Northern Territory for work in the unincorporated areas of those jurisdictions and to the Indian Ocean Territories (IOT) of Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Islands.

The $1.2 billion will be allocated to the jurisdictions on the following basis:

Jurisdiction

Allocation $

NSW

$340m

Victoria

$250m

Queensland

$250m

WA

$180m

SA

$100m

Tasmania

$40m

NT

$20m

ACT

$20m

TOTAL

$1,200m

Within these allocations, each council will receive an allocation based on the recommendations of the State/NT Local Government Grants Commission for the Financial Assistance Grants roads component. The selection of projects to be funded will be entirely in the hands of the individual councils.  Each council provides the Australian Government with a works programme and payments are made against these projects.

The funding to be provided to the ACT will be provided to the ACT Government which has local government responsibilities within its jurisdiction.

The $30m for unincorporated areas and IOTs will be distributed as set out in the following table:

Jurisdiction

Allocation

NSW

$2.515m

Victoria

$0.064m

SA

$10.785m

NT

$16.000m

IOT

$0.636m

TOTAL

$30.000m

Project selection in the unincorporated areas will be the responsibility of the jurisdictions concerned.  Project selection in the Indian Ocean Territories will be in the hands of the Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Island Shire Councils. 

Project selection for the regional strategic programme will be in the hands of the Australian Government but the process has not been finalised.

Project selection in the unincorporated areas will be the responsibility of the jurisdictions concerned.  Project selection in the Indian Ocean Territories will be in the hands of the Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Island Shire Councils. 

Project selection for the regional strategic programme will be in the hands of the Australian Government but the process has not been finalised.