North Queensland

Delivering Jobs

• $164.5 million to improve electricity infrastructure in the region
• More than $10 million for improvements to the Port of Townsville
• $2.5 million ($12.5 million over five years) in funding for the inaugural Dunlop Townsville 400 V8 Supercar event

Investing in our health

• $39.4 million for the $332.8 million Townsville Hospital expansion to provide additional beds, operating theatres and expanded support services
• $3.8 million to complete the $41.4 million Ingham Hospital redevelopment
• $3 million to expand the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Townsville Hospital (at a total cost of $34 million over three years)
• $1.92 million in funding for the new $3.46 million Palm Island emergency facility

Better and safer roads

• $47.3 million in joint Queensland-Australian Government funding to continue construction of the $190 million Townsville Port Access Road
• $11 million to complete a new two-lane road on Abbott Street between Oonoonba Road and River Boulevard, Fairfield Waters
• Widening the Kennedy Highway between Big Dinner Creek and Mount Garnet
• $10.7 million in joint Queensland-Australian Government funding to continue the $43.8 million upgrade of the Burdekin River Bridge on the Bruce Highway between Bowen and Ayr
• $10.5 million to continue widening the Gregory Developmental Road, south of Bluff Downs Road
• $9.6 million in joint Queensland-Australian Government funding to duplicate the Douglas Arterial section of the Townsville Ring Road

Education and early childhood development

• $22 million to complete a $35.4 million specialist trade campus in Townsville
• $2 million to continue the $17 million stage two redevelopment of the Barrier Reef Institute of TAFE
• As part of the first tranche of the Government's commitment to 240 new or expanded kindergartens by 2014, funding for a new kindergarten at Oonoonba

Protecting our environment and building communities

• Funding for the $18.9 million Flinders Mall upgrade
• $10 million for Jezzine Barracks
• Continuing work on the $1.5 million redevelopment of the Kokoda Memorial Pool

More information

For more information about your region, read the North Queensland Regional Budget Statement (PDF 425 KB).