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Queensland Schools Project The Queensland Schools Project consists of eight Prep–Year 6 primary schools and two Year 7–12 secondary schools being built in rapidly developing areas in South East Queensland. Two new schools will be built in Caboolture and others in Pimpama, Burpengary, Pallara, Ripley Valley, Springfield, Griffin, Bellbird Park and Redbank Plains. These new schools demonstrate another way the Queensland Government is securing Queensland’s future by revitalising front line services for families. The Queensland Government has announced that Plenary Schools has been chosen to deliver the package. This innovative Public Private Partnership is part of the Government’s commitment to delivering better infrastructure and planning for Queensland families. “What we will be doing is making sure these schools are maintained for 29 years, allowing the teachers, principals and parents to concentrate on curriculum and education, not worrying about painting the walls and fixing up the drains and gutters and toilets,” Treasurer Tim Nicholls said. “That will all be taken care of by the private sector”. “That will last over 29 years and in 2043 the schools will be handed back to the department.” Mr Nicholls said the maintenance contract would ensure a high standard was maintained. The four-year construction phase, which began in January 2014, will boost economic activity, generating around 1,700 jobs a year, and providing a much needed boost to one of Queensland’s economic pillars. The Department of Education, Training and Employment is overseeing the delivery of the new schools and the ongoing contract management. The first schools are expected to open for the commencement of the 2015 academic year, with others opening in 2016 and 2017. As well as servicing Queensland’s rapidly growing student population, the schools will employ over 500 teachers and 130 non-teaching positions. Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital With a $224.5 million funding boost in 2014-15, the Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital is on track to open for patients in late 2014. The Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital and Centre for Children’s Health Research is a $1.513 billion investment that brings together the Royal Children’s Hospital and Mater Children’s Hospital to create one outstanding future for children’s health care in Queensland. The hospital is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to create Queensland’s first children’s hospital designed with the needs of children, young people and families in mind. The Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital will be the largest public children’s hospital in the country, and will include 359 public beds over 12 levels with all paediatric specialties in one location. In 2014-15, $30.7 million will also be invested towards the adjacent Centre for Children’s Health Research. The hospital development will also include the refurbished headquarters of the Children’s Hospital Foundation, land to accommodate families within the precinct, improved road access and a new Adolescent Drug and Alcohol Withdrawal Service building. The hospital is named after Lady Phyllis Cilento, a much-loved pioneering Queensland physician whose dedicated career and lifelong passion for women and children’s health made her a househould name in the 1930s. In a career spanning 50 years, Lady Cilento left a lasting legacy in paediatric healthcare in Queensland. She served at the Hospital for Sick Children in Herston in the 1930s and established a private obstetrics practice at her home in Annerley where she raised her six children. For more information about the Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital, visit www.health.qld.gov.au/childrenshospital Regional Budget Statement BRISBANE Great state. Great opportunity. Education 7% to $11.8 billion Transport and roads Health 6% to $13.6 billion New and improving hospitals: $224.5 million towards building the Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital $369.8 million towards building the Sunshine Coast Public University Hospital $173.3 million for the redevelopment of hospitals in Cairns, Mackay, Mount Isa, Townsville and Rockhampton Toowoomba Second Range Crossing $321 million towards the history making $1.6 billion, 41km innovative toll road project Bruce Highway $768 million in 2014-15 to upgrade sections of the Bruce Highway 75 new six-car trains $5.4 billion Great Results Guarantee $131 million to improve the numeracy and literacy of our children under the $1.4 billion Queensland Schools Project 10 new schools A STRONG PLAN FOR A BRIGHTER FUTURE This Budget continues to deliver a Strong Plan for a Brighter Future. The 2014-15 Budget carefully balances increases in education, health and community services spending, while not introducing or raising any new taxes or reducing services. Strong choices have to be made so that a brighter future can be ours; we need to reduce the State’s $80 billion debt and the annual $4 billion interest bill. This Budget outlines our plan to secure our finances by making the strongest and smartest choice to reduce debt so we can sustainably invest in the schools, hospitals and infrastructure for the future. We are making significant progress in restoring our finances, growing a four pillar economy, revitalising frontline services and funding infrastructure projects and jobs – with more than 60,000 jobs created in Queensland in the last year. To sustain this we must reduce debt, so we can truly keep building on our Strong Plan for a Brighter Future. Reef Water Quality Program $55 million Safe Night Out Strategy $44.5 million to address alcohol and drug-related violence 267 new police $33.9 million for tourism marketing and event promotion Royalties for the Regions $495 million for infrastructure improvements Drought assistance $62 million Safer Children $406 million for child and family services in response to the Carmody Inquiry Queensland State Budget 2014–15 Regional Budget Statement Brisbane For more detail: www.budget.qld.gov.au
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Queensland Schools Project
The Queensland Schools Project consists of eight Prep–Year 6 primary schools and two Year 7–12 secondary schools being built in rapidly developing areas in South East Queensland.
Two new schools will be built in Caboolture and others in Pimpama, Burpengary, Pallara, Ripley Valley, Springfield, Griffin, Bellbird Park and Redbank Plains. These new schools demonstrate another way the Queensland Government is securing Queensland’s future by revitalising front line services for families.
The Queensland Government has announced that Plenary Schools has been chosen to deliver the package. This innovative Public Private Partnership is part of the Government’s commitment to delivering better infrastructure and planning for Queensland families.
“What we will be doing is making sure these schools are maintained for 29 years, allowing the teachers, principals and parents to concentrate on curriculum and education, not worrying about painting the walls and fixing up the drains and gutters and toilets,” Treasurer Tim Nicholls said.
“That will all be taken care of by the private sector”.
“That will last over 29 years and in 2043 the schools will be handed back to the department.”
Mr Nicholls said the maintenance contract would ensure a high standard was maintained.
The four-year construction phase, which began in January 2014, will boost economic activity, generating around 1,700 jobs a year, and providing a much needed boost to one of Queensland’s economic pillars.
The Department of Education, Training and Employment is overseeing the delivery of the new schools and the ongoing contract management. The first schools are expected to open for the commencement of the 2015 academic year, with others opening in 2016 and 2017.
As well as servicing Queensland’s rapidly growing student population, the schools will employ over 500 teachers and 130 non-teaching positions.
Lady Cilento Children’s HospitalWith a $224.5 million funding boost in 2014-15, the Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital is on track to open for patients in late 2014.
The Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital and Centre for Children’s Health Research is a $1.513 billion investment that brings together the Royal Children’s Hospital and Mater Children’s Hospital to create one outstanding future for children’s health care in Queensland.
The hospital is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to create Queensland’s first children’s hospital designed with the needs of children, young people and families in mind.
The Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital will be the largest public children’s hospital in the country, and will include 359 public beds over 12 levels with all paediatric specialties in one location.
In 2014-15, $30.7 million will also be invested towards the adjacent Centre for Children’s Health Research. The hospital development will also include the refurbished headquarters of the Children’s Hospital Foundation, land to accommodate families within the precinct, improved road access and a new Adolescent Drug and Alcohol Withdrawal Service building.
The hospital is named after Lady Phyllis Cilento, a much-loved pioneering Queensland physician whose dedicated career and lifelong passion for women and children’s health made her a househould name in the 1930s.
In a career spanning 50 years, Lady Cilento left a lasting legacy in paediatric healthcare in Queensland. She served at the Hospital for Sick Children in Herston in the 1930s and established a private obstetrics practice at her home in Annerley where she raised her six children.
For more information about the Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital, visit www.health.qld.gov.au/childrenshospital
Regional Budget Statement
BRISBANE
Great state. Great opportunity.
Education
7% to$11.8 billion
Transport and roads
Health
6% to$13.6 billionNew and improving hospitals:$224.5 million towards building the Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital
$369.8 million towards building the Sunshine Coast Public University Hospital
$173.3 million for the redevelopment of hospitals in Cairns, Mackay, Mount Isa, Townsville and Rockhampton
Toowoomba Second Range Crossing$321 million towards the history making $1.6 billion, 41km innovative toll road project
Bruce Highway$768 million in 2014-15 to upgrade sections of the Bruce Highway
75 new six-car trains
$5.4 billionGreat Results Guarantee$131 million to improve the numeracy and literacy of our children
under the $1.4 billion Queensland Schools Project
10 new schools
A STRONGPLAN FOR ABRIGHTERFUTURE
This Budget continues to deliver a Strong Plan for a Brighter Future.
The 2014-15 Budget carefully balances increases in education, health and community services spending, while not introducing or raising any new taxes or reducing services.
Strong choices have to be made so that a brighter future can be ours; we need to reduce the State’s $80 billion debt and the annual $4 billion interest bill. This Budget outlines our plan to secure our finances by making the strongest and smartest choice to reduce debt so we can sustainably invest in the schools, hospitals and infrastructure for the future.
We are making significant progress in restoring our finances, growing a four pillar economy, revitalising frontline services and funding infrastructure projects and jobs – with more than 60,000 jobs created in Queensland in the last year. To sustain this we must reduce debt, so we can truly keep building on our Strong Plan for a Brighter Future.
Reef Water Quality Program
$55 million
Safe Night Out Strategy$44.5 millionto address alcohol and drug-related violence
267 new police
$33.9 million for tourism marketing and event promotion
Royalties for the Regions$495 millionfor infrastructure improvements
Drought assistance
$62 million
Safer Children
$406 millionfor child and family services in response to the Carmody Inquiry
Queensland State Budget 2014–15 Regional Budget Statement
Brisbane
For more detail: www.budget.qld.gov.au
Queensland State Budget 2014–15
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Redland Bay
Victoria Point
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ClevelandCapalaba
Manly
Hemmant
Carindale
Mansfield
RochedaleSheldon
The Gap
Ashgrove
Chermside
ClayfieldKeperra
Pullenvale
Kenmore
Mount CottonParkinson
Sunnybank Hills
CoopersPlains
Bellbowrie
GeebungPort of Brisbane
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Sandgate
Aspley
Wynnum
NorthStradbrokeIsland
D’AguilarNationalPark
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DarlingDowns
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MackayOutback
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BrisbaneA STRONG PLAN FOR A BRIGHTER FUTURE
Dementia research$2.5 million of $9 million to establish the Clem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia at The University of Queensland.
Child and youth health$30.7 million of $80 million over five years for the Centre for Children’s Health Research to attract and retain leading specialists.
Queens Wharf$1.7 million for the detailed proposal stage of the Queens Wharf redevelopment in the Brisbane CBD.
New children’s hospital
$224.5 million to complete the $1.433 billion Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital.
Southside bikeways
$12.2 million for a section of the $25 million cycleway at Greenslopes beside the Pacific Motorway, due for completion in July 2015.
Southside road upgrades
$38 million of $135.8 million, in partnership with the Australian Government, to widen Mount Gravatt-Capalaba Road to six lanes between Broadwater Road and Mount Petrie Road, as part of the Gateway Upgrade South, due for completion in June 2015.
National park facilities
$2.5 million to upgrade the Walkabout Creek visitor centre in D’Aguilar National Park.
Centenary Motorway widening
$41.1 million of $41.8 million to widen part of the Centenary Motorway to six lanes, in conjunction with the Legacy Way tunnel project and the Moggill Road interchange upgrade, due for completion in May 2015.
Indigenous health$5 million to commence the $10.5 million second stage of the Southern Queensland Centre of Excellence in Indigenous Primary Health Care at Inala.
Protecting our environment$1.6 million to improve riparian (riverbank) vegetation, water quality and streambank rehabilitation in Kedron Brook Catchment, Enoggera and Neurum Creek, Fig Tree Pocket and Myrtletown around the mouth of the Brisbane River.
Velodrome$14.9 million to progress development and construction of the Queensland State Velodrome as a 2018 Commonwealth Games venue.
Year 7 moving to high school
$49.5 million of up to $81.5 million towards education facilities at Brisbane, Corinda, Mansfield and Wavell State High Schools and Kelvin Grove State College as Year 7 joins high school in 2015.
Third rail track Lawnton to Petrie
$28.7 million for the $159.2 million project to construct a third rail track between Lawnton and Petrie, due for completion in December 2016.
Brisbane Youth Detention Centre
$1.5 million for the $9.6 million security upgrade at Brisbane Youth Detention Centre, due for completion in 2016-17.
Asian Football Cup$3.8 million of $5 million to stage the 2015 AFC Asian Football Cup.
River monitoring
$43,000 for additional river gauges in the Brisbane River.
Stadium upgrades$26.8 million for upgrades and ongoing maintenance of Stadiums Queensland venues.
Belmont Shooting Centre
$800,000 to progress development and construction at the Belmont Shooting Centre as a 2018 Commonwealth Games venue.
Better access for North Straddie
$1.4 million to improve visitor access and island management on North Stradbroke Island.
Sport and recreation clubs$511,600 for the Get in the Game initiative to help sport and recreation organisations develop facilities to support active club membership.
Social housing$42.7 million to expand and improve social housing.
Better forensic capability
$2.3 million to commence a $3.3 million refurbishment of the Forensic Service facility at Police Headquarters, to be completed by 30 June 2016.
Russell Island ambulance$1.9 million to complete the replacement ambulance station on Russell Island.
Tackling homelessness
$30.7 million for specialist homelessness services.
Gateway Upgrade North$143.5 million from the Australian Government for the $1.162 billion Gateway Upgrade North project, between Nudgee and Bracken Ridge, due for completion in 2018-19.
Recovery and reconstruction
$70 million for local government authorities for recovery and reconstruction projects in partnership with the Australian Government.
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