The NT Government has provided what it calls regional highlights of its Budget, announced today.
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So what's in it for the Katherine region and please take note many of these items have been previously announced and many others are ongoing funding for schools, hospital and police and others.
Infrastructure highlights:
$73.4M in Territory and Commonwealth funding under the Northern Australia Roads Program, comprising:
$44.4M to continue to upgrade the Keep River Plains Road to support Project Sea Dragon and the Ord agricultural irrigation development
$29M to strengthen, widen and extend the seal on the Buntine Highway towards the Western Australia border
$30M for headworks and subdivision works to progress development of the Katherine Logistics and Agribusiness Hub
$11.5M for Nitmiluk National Park, including infrastructure upgrades and new walking trails linking with mountain bike trails
$11.3M to continue to construct new high level bridges over Little Horse Creek and Big Horse Creek under the National Highway Upgrade Program
$10.8M to continue to construct the Ngukurr police complex and additional housing
$10M to progress the Katherine art gallery extension as part of the Arts Trail
$9.8M for flood mitigation works
$5.7M to seal selected sections of the Lajamanu access road and Roper Highway
$4.7M for the Borroloola water supply connection to Garawa communities
$4M for headworks infrastructure and subdivision of residential, commercial and industrial land in Kalkarindji
$4M to strengthen and widen selected sections of Carpentaria Highway
$3.8M to continue to upgrade the Robinson and Calvert stream crossings on Wollogorang Road
$3.5M for subdivision works to support the release of 35 residential lots in Borroloola
$2.9M for the minor new works program for government schools, including round 3 of Building Better Schools projects and round 2 of rooftop solar in schools program
$1.2M for electrical upgrades to Katherine Hospital
$0.9M for selected upgrades on the Newman to Katherine corridor
Creating local jobs
$7.6M in Territory and Commonwealth funding to operate and deliver VET for Territorians to develop new or build on existing skills to gain employment
$1.25M to operate the Katherine and Victoria River research stations
$0.64M to adapt agricultural production systems to improve agribusiness investment certainty
$0.46M to manage and maintain Crown land including associated buildings and weed control
$0.4M to facilitate major agribusiness projects including development of regional agricultural precincts and support for the Katherine Logistics and Agribusiness Hub
$0.4M to provide new generation geoscience technology to assess resource potential and promote exploration investment
$0.3M to support the visitor information centre Delivering generational change
$92.21M for primary, middle and senior years education in government and non-government schools, including improving transition between primary, middle and senior school
$25.43M for out of home care and child protection services
$8.4M to implement the Indigenous Education Strategy
$5.55M for preschool education in government schools
$4.02M for early childhood education and care, including early childhood subsidies
$3.78M over three years from 201718 to improve the school resourcing model and support for schools
$3.77M for isolated student education through the Katherine School of the Air and distance education
$1.76M for school bus services
$0.96M to continue the Healthy Life Creative Life program to enable middle and senior years students to return to mainstream schooling or progress to a job or training through re-engagement activities such as sport, creative arts, social and emotional learning, and learning on country
$0.66M to continue early intervention and support to tackle challenging behaviours and assist students with additional needs, including an autism unit
$0.62M to continue the Back to School Payment scheme
$0.52M to continue the Families as First Teachers program at five urban sites and to establish additional sites in Barunga and Urapunga Investing in the bush
$1.5M for regional development and coordination as part of the Local Decision Making policy
$0.5M to provide assistance to pastoralists and other landholders to manage grader grass, prickly acacia, neem and rubber bush Creating a safer Territory
$44.9M for hospital services including patient travel and cancer treatment and accommodation
$39.92M to provide police, fire and emergency services, including 10 police stations and a further two police stations funded under Northern Territory Remote Aboriginal Investment, and one fire station and eight fire and emergency volunteer groups
$15.74M to provide primary health care services in urban and remote areas
$6.02M to provide family support services, including coordination of the early childhood development plan implementation and establishing family support centres
$5.06M for seniors and carers, including the NT Concession and Seniors Recognition schemes
$5.04M for youth justice services and improving youth justice programs so young people are accountable .
$4.99M for domestic and family violence services, including implementing the Changing Attitudes, Intervening Earlier and Responding Better action plan
$2.98M to provide assessment, monitoring and supervision services to community-based offenders in line with sentences and orders issued by the courts and Parole Board
$1.38M for courts to administer justice for regional and remote communities, including Beswick, Ngukurr, Timber Creek, Kalkarindji, Borroloola and Lajamanu. Registry services are provided through the courthouse at Katherine
$0.57M to promote gender equality and provide social inclusion services
$0.43M for three public housing safety officers in Katherine
$0.38M to provide alcohol and other drugs residential treatment programs for adult offenders
$0.13M to provide construction industry skills to offenders on community-based supervision orders
$0.13M for elders visiting and remote communities corrections officer programs
$0.2M to deliver petroleum operations and pipeline site monitoring and compliance
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