MID-TERM REPORT Ince Coming to Office in 2018, the Andrews Sgovernment Has Been Hard at Work Investing in the Eastern Metropolitan Region
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The Eastern Metro Bugle THE LATEST NEWS FROM YOUR STATE LABOR MEMBER FOR THE EASTERN METROPOLITAN REGION, SONJA TERPSTRA MP 2020/2021 SUMMER EDITION MID-TERM REPORT ince coming to office in 2018, the Andrews SGovernment has been hard at work investing in the Eastern Metropolitan Region. We haven’t wasted a minute! In this bulletin you’ll find information about progress being made on major government infrastructure projects which were promised in the lead up to the 2018 election, such as North East Link and the Suburban Rail Loop as well as investment in core areas such as education, housing, jobs, health and more. You’ll also see budget announcements that show the levels of investment projected to be made in the Eastern Metropolitan Region for the next financial year and beyond. Socially distant. Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews with Member for the Eastern Metro Region, Sonja Terpstra MP. BUDGET 2020/2021: INVESTING IN PEOPLE IN THE EASTERN METROPOLITAN REGION hen the Andrews Government A further $1.6 billion will transform An extra 250,000 low-income Mental Health was elected, we promised to support for students with disability, households will benefit from new more W This Budget will ensure Victorians have put people first. As our state begins its doubling the number of students efficient heating and cooling, while the mental health support they need as recovery from the global pandemic, receiving extra support to 55,000, and heating, cooling or hot water systems we get on with fixing a broken system. people will continue to be our priority. creating up to 1,730 jobs across the state will be upgraded across an extra 35,000 That includes nearly $870 million for by 2025. social housing homes – reducing bills The Victorian Budget 2020/21 delivers mental health, including to implement for tenants and making winter and on the investments that will see our Jobs the Royal Commission into Mental summer more comfortable. community recover – and come back Health’s interim report findings and To help get more Victorians back into even stronger. Solar Energy recommendations and deliver care for work, the Andrews Government is local families. Schools setting itself an ambitious target – The Andrews Government’s Solar creating 400,000 new jobs by 2025, Homes will also be expanded to an Family support As kids get back into the classroom, half of them by 2022. extra 42,000 rooftop solar rebates plus this Budget delivers the single biggest We’re also investing more than $1 14,500 solar batteries, cutting power investment ever in our schools – making Our new Jobs for Victoria initiative will billion for children and families at bills for local families. And for the very sure students have the classrooms, help locals find a new job – and with it, risk, including targeted support to first time, small businesses will also be libraries and learning spaces they security, stability and certainty. This help families stay together. A further eligible. deserve. includes $250 million to partner with $235 million will build our Recovery employers to cover the wages of at least Workforce, creating 500 new jobs across 10,000 new workers. These positions mental health, family violence, health Over $40 million is being invested will be for Victorians hardest hit by this and child protection with hundreds pandemic, including women, young more new training opportunities, so in schools in Bulleen, Croydon people, retrenched workers and people We’ve already completed 100,000 Victorians have the support they need and Warrandyte to ensure future who have been long-term unemployed. solar homes across the state. as we recover from this pandemic. students have the best facilities. This investment will also deliver Health targeted and tailored support for those We also want to make sure we continue who need it – such as mentoring, career to give patients flexibility in their care, counselling or more intensive support. Public Housing allowing them to choose what is best for Schools across the Eastern Metro region Paid Sick/Carers Leave them and their families. will benefit from funding to provide We’re also delivering the biggest facilities for additional enrolments We know too many Victorians are investment in public and community This Budget will invest $121 million for the 2023 school year, in addition having to choose between going to work housing in Australia, ever. This for ‘Better at Home’, increasing the to the already announced funding sick and losing wages, so the Andrews investment will build more than 12,000 delivery of hospital services in patients’ from the Infrastructure Planning and Government will invest $5 million new homes – making sure thousands homes – ensuring these Victorians can Acceleration Fund. to develop a new Secure Work Pilot of Victorians have a place to call home, recuperate in the comfort of their own Scheme. Once in place a two-year pilot and thousands more Victorians have a home. See pages 4 and 11 for more details. will provide up to five days of sick and job. We’ll also strengthen and expand The Government’s investment will also carer’s pay at the national minimum Free Kinder virtual care technology, making it easier support local jobs, with our investment wage for casual or insecure workers in for busy families to access support. in school infrastructure expected to priority industries. Even with kids back at school, the create more than 6,400 jobs across the balancing act that many families know This is a Budget to repair, recover and Household bills state. all too well isn’t easy. That’s why this make us stronger than before. This is This year’s Budget will help nearly one Budget will make kinder free in 2021 a Budget, and a Government, that puts As we recover, we want our state to come million local families save hundreds and deliver outside school hours care at people first. back stronger than ever, delivering on their power bill. Concession card up to 400 extra schools, saving parents the biggest investment in inclusive holders, such as Victorians receiving money and giving them greater flexibility education in our state’s history. JobSeeker payments, will be eligible for when it comes to work and care. To see a breakdown of the big a one-off $250 payment to help cover budget items in your electorate, turn to page 11. the cost of their energy bills. 2 THE EASTERN METRO BUGLE THE EASTERN METRO BUGLE 3 ELECTION COMMITMENTS AND FUNDING ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR THE EASTERN METRO REGION. ELECTION COMMITMENTS AND FUNDING ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR THE EASTERN METRO REGION. INDEX TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE Budget 2020 Major Rail Project: Page 1 Transport Infrastructure Page 2 & 3 Suburban Rail Loop Education Page 4 nnounced in the lead cycling, bus and road networks Early works will commence in Aup to the 2018 election, to enhance Melbourne’s overall 2022 and will create up to 800 School builds and Upgrades the Andrews Government public transport efficiency. jobs establishing launch sites Mooroolbark level crossing and station. Source: LXRP Page 5 committed to building the for tunnel boring machines. Suburban Rail Loop which is the Funding for early works will Environment biggest rail project ever built in also cover the purchase of land, Level Crossing Removals Page 6 Victoria’s history. upgrades to roads and power Stage 1 of the supplies where needed, build n coming to office in 2014, the Andrews Government announced Bushfire Season Commuters in the Eastern new sub-stations, relocate and Iit would remove 50 of the most dangerous and congested level Page 7 Metropolitan Region are set to project connects protect gas, water and other crossings investing $2.4 billion for the task in the 2015-2016 benefit as Glen Waverley and utilities, and deliver other vital Victorian Budget with 20 of those crossings removed in the first Health Box Hill are being included Cheltenham to Box works to prepare for major term of Government. Page 8 in Stage One of the project. Hill via Monash construction. Doncaster and Heidelberg will Six new stations have been A further 25 level crossings will be removed by 2025 in addition to Mental Health announced with the line Page 9 benefit by being included in University the 50 already planned bringing the total number of level crossings future stages of the project. commencing near Southland, to be removed to 75. Forty three level crossings are gone for good Housing underneath Sir William Fry as at the end of 2020, with 46 brand new and upgraded stations Page 10 Ninety kilometres of rail line Reserve in Highett. being delivered and creating 4,500 jobs in the process. will link every major rail service Local Jobs Electorate Budget stats from the Frankston line to the The Suburban Rail Loop will Other proposed stations are In the Eastern Metropolitan Region, 8 level crossings have been Page 11 Werribee line. It will provide a generate about 20,000 jobs next to Monash and Deakin removed or are planned to be removed. They are: direct rail link to Tullamarine during the construction phase universities – central to the Box Local Legends Airport as well as the new and will help train the next Hill and Glen Waverley activity Rosanna Page 12 The southern connector of the North East Link project at the Eastern Freeway Source: NEL Project Melbourne Airport Rail. generation of skilled workers by centres – and north of Carinish Level crossing removal, construction of new, modern station and improved providing jobs for up to 2,000 Road in Clayton, where a cycling paths. Whilst the Suburban Rail apprentices, trainees and cadets transport super-hub will connect Works Completed in 2018.