The state government handed down the 2021-2022 budget on September 9, banking a whopping $5.6 billion, iron ore-fuelled budget surplus.
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Mr McGowan, in his capacity as treasurer, on Thursday delivered little in the way of new promises, having already unveiled major health, housing and infrastructure commitments for the state.
However, $2.2 million for a women's health program and $750,000 towards a Ravenswood community centre was announced for the Peel region.
The Peel region is also set to benefit from $4.2 billion through Royalties for Regions and get a share of the $374 million state-wide investment in Aboriginal well-being.
The budget does include funding already announced for the region such as the $152 million major redevelopment of the Peel Health Campus, $110 million to build a second Mandurah Estuary Bridge and $28.1 million for the Mandurah Common Ground facility.
Other funding previously announced for the Peel region includes:
- Delivering the new $16.87 million Hospitality Training Centre and hair and beauty training facilities at Mandurah TAFE
- $2.7 million investment to complete the final 18 kilometres of mountain bike trails within the Dwellingup area, qualifying Dwellingup for 'international trail town' status
- A further $2 million will be invested into Peel regional trails and $105,000 will be invested in the Harvey Trails and Adventure Precinct
- $10 million to establish a Food Technology Facility at Peel Business Park
- $1.3 million Waroona Town Centre redevelopment
- $2 million Yalgorup trails and ecotourism development
- $5 million Peel Harvey Estuary Protection Plan (Bindjareb Djilba)
- $1.5 million investment in Pinjarra Senior High School, $1.5 million for Halls Head College and $1.5 million to Coodanup College to deliver new STEM classrooms
- A further $1 million will be invested in repurposed science classrooms at both John Tonkin College campuses, and $500,000 for Harvey Senior High School to repurpose a classroom into a STEM classroom
- $85,000 for a refurbished science classroom at Waroona District High School
- $2.5 million towards construction of the Munday Avenue extension, providing a link between Greenlands Road and Munday Avenue in Pinjarra
- $5 million to deliver the first stage of left acceleration lanes along Forrest Highway to facilitate safer access to the communities of Binningup, Harvey, Preston Beach and Myalup
- $395,000 to widen and seal shoulders, install animal warning signs, delineation and pavement markings on Corio Road in Ravenswood
- $235,000 to install a roundabout at Bortolo Drive and Lowden Road in Mandurah
- $3 million towards Dawesville Community Centre
For more information, visit https://www.ourstatebudget.wa.gov.au
More to come after the Mandurah State Budget Lunch on September 10.
