Andrew’s Runs on the Board

 

Key Achievements for Communities Across Calare

 

ROADS

  • $2 billion for Great Western Highway upgrade

  • $29.8 million for the Dixon’s Long Point Crossing

  • $14 million for highway upgrades between Lithgow, Bathurst and Orange

  • $12 million for the Orange Southern Feeder Road Project

 

DISASTER RECOVERY

  • More than $50.96 million in flood recovery funding for the storm and flood-hit NSW central west

  • $60 million in federal funding to deliver drought relief and Covid-19 recovery to our local councils for local projects

  • $19.75 million in federal funding for bushfire recovery projects in the Lithgow, Mid-Western and Oberon LGA’s

  • Calare Community Care Covid-19 initiative: Checked on over 5,000 local residents during lockdowns

  • Supported our communities around the clock during the Black Summer bushfires

INFRASTRUCTURE

  • $5.3 million for the production line upgrades and more jobs at Allied Timber Mill, Bathurst

  • $3.3 million for improvements at Bathurst Airport

  • $5.4 million for improved streetscapes in Canowindra, Lithgow and Molong

  • $380,000 for the rebuild of Glenray Industries, Bathurst

  • $738,101 for constructing a new pedestrian footbridge linking Cameron Park and Pioneer Park in Wellington

SPORTS & RECREATION FACILITY INFRASTRUCTURE

  • $12.5 million for a second race track at Mount Panorama

  • $11.5 million for the Glen Willow sporting precinct in Mudgee

  • $4.9 million for Oberon’s new Sports and Community complex (Federal/NSW)

  • $3.14 million for upgrades at Blayney’s CentrePoint Sport and Leisure Centre, King George Oval and Belubula River Walk

  • $2.235 million for Lithgow Blast Furnace Park

  • $600,000 for upgrades at O’Connell Recreation Ground

  • $480,000 for expanding Wallerawang Bowling Club

  • $225,000 for Molong Multi-Sports Facility

  • $200,000 for new synthetic courts at Wattle Flat Recreation Ground

  • $200,000 for improvements at Wellington’s Kennard Park, home of the Cowboys

  • $117,396 for resurfacing courts at East Molong Tennis Club

CULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURE

  • $10 million for new Orange Conservatorium and Planetarium

  • $1.5 million for Mudgee Cultural Precinct

  • $954,250 for the construction of the new Bathurst Rail Museum

  • $500,000 for Oberon Visitor Information Centre upgrade

  • $492,410 for construction of Eugowra Community Centre at the Showground

  • $238,400 for Millthorpe’s Golden Memories Museum

  • $150,000 for Gulgong Red Hill Mining Experience

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

  • $1,118,979 for The Orchard crisis accommodation centre in Orange

  • $930,500 for Bathurst and Mudgee crisis accommodation

MENTAL HEALTH

  • $4,000 in extra funding for local Headspace mental health services

HEALTHCARE

  • MRI scans claimable on Medicare in Bathurst and Lithgow hospitals

AGED CARE

  • $11.4 million for expanding and supporting aged care facilities in Lithgow

  • $1.56 million for expansion of Kanandah Retirement Mudgee

  • $1.47 million for Mission Australia’s Benjamin Short Grove Aged Care facility

  • Lithgow Aged Care saved

CHILDCARE

  • $1.6 million to support childcare centres in Calare

  • $1.5 million for intergenerational childcare centre at Wellington’s Maranatha House

EDUCATION

  • $54.8 million for the CSU medical school and research facility

  • $930,000 grant for Mudgee Country University Centre

  • $308,175 for an education function centre at the Australian National Field Days site at Borenore

BUSINESS

  • Fruit bat and hail netting for our local orchards

HOME SAFETY

  • $1.2 million for CCTV in Orange, Bathurst and Wellington

ANIMAL WELFARE

  • $925,000 for the Bathurst Animal Rehoming Centre

VETERANS

  • $181,818 for Bathurst’s War Memorial Carillon

  • $15,746 for Molong RSL Sub Branch NSW

  • $11,800 for Mudgee & Districts Vietname Veterans Peacekeepers & Peacemakers Association

  • $10,000 to Robert Gough from the Saluting Their Service Grant

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

  • More than 50 new blackspot towers/base stations

DECENTRALISATION

  • Decentralisation of two federal government departments/branches

ARTS

  • $40,000 to Samuel Rodwell from the Short Film Pyros Project.