Eighteen out of twenty-two infrastructure projects funded by the Morrison Government and being delivered by Hawkesbury City Council under Phase 2 of Local Roads and Community Infrastructure (LRCI) program are complete, with work continuing to finish the remaining four.
The Morrison and Perrottet Governments have provided $2.5 million to support construction of expanded facilities at Odyssey House drug and alcohol treatment service near Campbelltown in Sydney.
Under the latest round of the Morrison Government’s Culture, Heritage and Arts Regional Tourism program, three organisations in the Blue Mountains will receive grant funding.
The Morrison Government has delivered record levels of trade apprenticeships across the Blue Mountains and Hawkesbury with trade apprentices continue to surge to record high levels across the country – reaching 220,000 in training in 2021.
GP clinics in Katoomba and Springwood will be able to recruit overseas trained doctors and bonded medical practitioners, after local doctors successfully applied to have their outer-metropolitan status reconsidered by a federal government review.
Two independent cinemas in the Blue Mountains will receive a second funding boost from the Morrison Government to help keep the projectors rolling and staff on the books.
Local Senator and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Women, Senator the Hon Marise Payne, has today become the longest-serving female Senator in Australian history.
Following a strong community campaign led by Liberal for Macquarie, Sarah Richards, and Mayor Patrick Conolly, telecommunications coverage in bushfire-impacted Hawkesbury communities will receive a boost from the Morrison Government under the Black Summer Bushfire Recovery Grants program.
