Peel and the WA budget at a glance

Lucky’s the Mandurah Mail has you covered. 

Here’s what the state budget has in store for the Peel region at a glance. 

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The Peel Health Campus stands to receive $4.4 million from the McGowan Government’s state budget, but nothing will go towards hospital’s healthcare.

The cash injection will provide upgrades to the car parking facilities for visitors and staff, and increase overall security and safety through an upgrade of the CCTV system and the lock-down capability.

A release from Health Minister Roger Cook stated that the investment would also support a proactive program to improve the hospital’s assets and facilities.

The 2018-19 budget sees $5.8 million allocated to a new women’s refuge in the Peel region, as part of Government’s Stopping Family and Domestic Violence election commitment. 

Mandurah MP David Templeman first announced the new refuge in May last year, following Labor’s election promise to build two new centres in WA. 

On a related note, the state budget also includes $4.3 million for the National Domestic Violence Order Scheme, which is an automated information-sharing platform to facilitate enforcement across States and Territories.

The McGowan Government passed legislation in November 2017 to enable family violence restraining orders and police orders to be automatically recognised and enforced across all Australian jurisdictions.

A further $25.2 million has been allocated to the Transform Peel project in this year’s budget. 

The total state funding for the project is expected to be $49.3 million. 

The Peel Development Commission project has three elements:  a 42,000 ha Peel Food Zone, a 1000 ha Peel Business Park and the Peel Integrated Water Initiative.

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Also included in this year’s rundown of the state budget is $16.1 million allocated to the construction of a multistorey car park at Mandurah train station, subject to matching funding from the Federal Government. 

The car park has been on the cards for the local train station since it appeared as McGowan Labor election promise in 2016 and was recently support by Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten while in Mandurah. 

The official commitment of $16.1 million was then announced as part of the 2017-18 budget – on the proviso that the federal government matched the funds. 

With no federal cash allocated, the state funding has since carried over to this financial year’s budget. 

These are the projects, which while included in the Peel region rundown for the 2018-19 State Budget, were already announced and had funds allocated in previous budgets. 

As much as we would like it to all be able Peel, the budget needs to cater for the entire state. 

Here are the projects, which although aren’t based in the region, may send some cash come our way.