STATEWIDE INITIATIVES
JOBS FOR YOUNG TASMANIANS
- $17.1m Payroll Tax relief for employing apprentices, trainees and young people
- $4000 grants to small businesses to support apprentices and trainees - $2m
- $4.1m Jobs Action Package: Employment Partnership with TasCOSS and the TCCI helping increase employment, including the “Jobs Bus”
- $600,000 Whitelion Work Ready program for high risk young people aged between 16-24
- A Workforce for Now and the Future initiative - including Driving for Jobs, helping young people get a driver’s licence - $1.1m
BIGGEST EVER BOOST TO HEALTH
- 106 more hospital beds and staff across the State
- A record recurrent spend of more than $7b, with new spending of $658m over four years including:
- More hospital beds and staff across Tasmania - $144.4m
- Mental health initiatives - $16m
- Second Medical/Police search and rescue helicopter - $9m
- Statewide Operations and Command Centre - $6m
- Medical Cannabis Controlled Access Scheme - $3.8m
- Continuing a strong focus on Hospital and Health Infrastructure, with $493.7m for projects including:
- Royal Hobart Hospital Redevelopment - $388.7m+>
- Mersey Community Hospital upgrade - $35m
- Launceston General Hospital 4K Children’s Ward upgrade - $7.7m+
- Hospital upgrades and maintenance - $17.9m+
- Glenorchy and Kingston Health Centres - $12.5m+
- New St Helens District Hospital - $11.4m+
- Building a new ward at the Repatriation Hospital - $7m
ACTION TO REDUCE THE COST OF LIVING
- Capping electricity prices to protect households and small businesses from national electricity price bill shock - saving average households around $300 per year
- Relief for medium to large Tasmanian businesses from national electricity market volatility - $20m
- $60m to councils for TasWater returns - takeover will save average customers up to $550 over six years
- New Housing Incentive Package including:
- Extending $20,000 first home builders’ grant boost
- Stamp duty relief for house and land package purchases
SMALL BUSINESS AND THE ECONOMY
- Start-Up Accelerator Program to attract and support cutting edge start-ups - $900,000
- Enhancing small business participation in the digital economy - $900,000
- Leading edge Enterprize Hubs to support new and early stage businesses - $1.1m
- Tasmania’s Freight Rail Revitalisation - $30m
- Tasmanian tourism marketing boost - $11m
- Loans for local councils to accelerate up to $60m work, creating up to 800 jobs
- Roads and Bridge infrastructure investment - $827m+>
- Tasmanian Cycle Tourism Strategy supporting new experiences and existing trails - $6m
- Delivering flagship tourism experiences in national parks - $8m
- Investment in agriculture, fisheries, biosecurity - $44m
- $4m+ to support actions in the Forestry Strategic
- Growth Plan to help grow the industry and create jobs
INVESTING IN TASMANIANS
- $6.36b record investment in education and training
- Maintained our commitment to $134m of additional Gonski funding over 6 years
- Better school and TasTAFE buildings - $117m+
- $17.8m to improve student wellbeing including additional District School Health Nurses
- Rebuilding Tasmania’s Police Service - $53.4m
- Body Worn Video for Tasmania Police - $3.4m
- Record support for Child Protection - $44.8m
- Record funding for Community Sector Organisations – $270m
- Delivering the National Disability Insurance Scheme - $750m
- Affordable Housing Action Plan - $73.5m+
- Tasmania’s Family Violence Action Plan - $15.4m+
- Volunteering Tasmania, building an army of emergency volunteers - $200,000
+includes funding already allocated
>includes Australian Government funding