News: Federal Budget 2009: Nation Building for the Future - Infrastucture Spending

Looking through the Government spin the spending on major infrastructure projects is one of the largest in recent history.

The infrastructure projects that got the go ahead are:

Roads, rail and ports $8,453m

• Regional Rail Express (Vic) $3,225m
• East West Rail Tunnel —preconstruction work (Vic) $40m
• Gold Coast light rail (Qld) $365m
• Gawler rail line modernisation (SA) $294m
• Noarlunga to Seaford rail extension (SA) $291m
• Northbridge rail link (the Hub) (WA) $236m
• West Metro — preconstruction work (NSW) $91m
• Brisbane Inner City Rail feasibility study (Qld) $20m
• O-Bahn track extension (SA) $61m
• Hunter Expressway (NSW) $1,451m
• Pacific Highway — Kempsey Bypass (NSW) $618m
• Ipswich Motorway — additional works (Qld) $884m
• Bruce Highway — Cooroy to Curra (Section B) duplication (Qld) $488m
• Oakajee Port common user facilities (WA) $339m
• Darwin Port expansion (NT) $50m

National Broadband Network Up to $43,000m

• Initial Government investment $4,700m

Clean energy infrastructure $3,565m

• Clean Energy Initiative $3,465m
• National Energy Efficiency Initiative $100m

Education infrastructure $2,585m

Health and hospital infrastructure $3,172m

• Hospital infrastructure $1,465m
• Better cancer care $1,276m
• Translational health research $430m

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