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Investment In Roads And Rail (News)

The Parliamentary Secretary for Infrastructure and Regional Development, Maxine McKew told today's 6th Annual Australian Roads Summit in Brisbane that the Rudd Government's unprecedented $35.8 billion investment on road and rail infrastructure showed that it believes in government "for the long haul."

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The Parliamentary Secretary for Infrastructure and Regional Development, Maxine McKew told today's 6th Annual Australian Roads Summit in Brisbane that the Rudd Government's unprecedented $35.8 billion investment on road and rail infrastructure showed that it believes in government "for the long haul."

"We in the Rudd Government knew that that unless we took action, unless we adopted a fresh approach - a national approach - to infrastructure maintenance and development, these reforms would probably never have happened," Ms McKew said.

Building for the Future

Blog post by Amanda Rishworth
posted: Monday Mar 01, 2010, 7:27pm

Kevin Rudd, Mike Rann and I announced a joint $18 million investment to fix the dangerous intersection at Victor Harbour Road and Main Road in McLaren Vale on Saturday. This is great news to local residents and businesses, and is another example of the Federal Government’s commitment to invest in infrastructure and prepare Australia for the future.

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Infrastructure in remote communities (News)

A commonsense, practical guide will be distributed in remote Indigenous communities to help manage essential infrastructure services such as energy, waste, water, storm water, telecommunications and transport.

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Infrastructure spending supports Indigenous students (News)

Two boarding schools in Queensland enrolling Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students have received a $1.9 million boost in infrastructure funding from the Rudd Government.

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Two boarding schools in Queensland enrolling Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students have received a $1.9 million boost in infrastructure funding from the Australian Government.

The schools are Djarragun College in Gordonvale, which will receive just over $1 million, and Shalom Christian College in Condon, which will receive $920 000.

The Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, congratulated the two schools and commended them for their contributions to the educational welfare and achievements of their Indigenous students.

Progress report on the Nation Building Plan (News)

The report highlights significant progress in implementing the largest infrastructure plan in the nation’s history and outlines its role in supporting jobs, economic growth and driving productivity during the most hostile global economic conditions in 75 years.

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*Release with Julia Gillard, Wayne Swan & Mark Arbib

Almost three quarters of the infrastructure projects in the Nation Building Economic Stimulus Plan are completed or underway according to a Progress Report from the Commonwealth Coordinator-General, released one year after the Plan was announced.

Higher Education Revolution on track (News)

The Rudd Government has committed $5.7 billion over four years to higher education and innovation reform to help achieve the aim of increasing by 40 per cent the number of 25-34 year olds to hold a Bachelor-level qualification or above by 2025.

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* Release with Kim Carr

Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, and Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator Kim Carr, today advised the Parliament of the Rudd Government’s progress in Higher Education, just over one year on from the receipt of the Bradley Review into Higher Education and the Cutler Review of the National Innovation System.

Stimulus supporting local jobs

Blog post by Mark Arbib
posted: Sunday Jan 31, 2010, 12:04am

Next time you drive past a primary school you’ll surely see how the Rudd Government’s $42 billion Nation Building Economic Stimulus Plan is supporting jobs and small business and is building the long-term infrastructure for the country’s future.

With 70 per cent of the stimulus invested on road, rail, school construction and housing infrastructure, it is supporting up to 210,000 jobs.

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Major interstate rail upgrade complete (News)

The completion of this major infrastructure project is an example of the Rudd Government’s stimulus package in action and will lead to significant improvements in efficiency and reliability of the rail link between Melbourne and South Australia.

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*Release with Richard Marles

The Rudd Government today announced the completion of the final stage of the $105 million upgrade of the rail link between Melbourne and the South Australian border today.

Lindsay Tanner, Federal Minister for Finance and Deregulation and Member for Melbourne said the project was brought forward thanks to the Australian Government’s $1.2 billion stimulus investment in December 2008.

Latest data show inflation remains low (News)

Today’s Consumer Price Index result shows that inflation remains low, reflecting an economy that is still operating below capacity.

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Today’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) result shows that inflation remains low, reflecting an economy that is still operating below capacity.

Inflation was 2.1 per cent through the year to the December quarter 2009, at the lower end of the Reserve Bank’s 2 to 3 per cent target band, up from 1.3 per cent in the September quarter.  This increase was largely a result of the sharp falls in global fuel prices evident in the December quarter 2008, dropping out of today’s annual CPI.

2010 to be a big year in nation building (News)

The Rudd Government's ambitious infrastructure program will step up another gear in 2010, with construction work to get underway on major road and rail projects worth more than $20 billion.

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Over the coming twelve months the Rudd Labor Government's ambitious infrastructure program will step up another gear, with construction work expected to get underway on major road and rail projects worth more than $20 billion.

As part of our Nation Building Program work will commence this year on a large number of major transport projects, including:

                    * Regional Rail Link (VIC) - $4.2 billion;

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