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DELIVERING FOR OUR COMMUNITY

  • $100M to implement Tasmania’s Child and Youth Wellbeing Strategy*
  • $4.3M to begin development of a Service Tasmania digital portal to provide anywhere, anytime, any device access to government services*
  • $25.9M for a common ticketing solution for all Tasmania’s public transport services*
  • $12M for additional energy discounts for around 90,000 eligible concession customers on their 2021 Winter Energy Bill
  • $7.5M to boost the First Home Owners Grant to $30,000
  • $4.8M to employ new family and community support workers and extend the Neighbourhood Houses Capital Improvement program
  • $28.6M for Tasmanian Irrigation Schemes, Tranche 3*
  • $65M for Stadiums Tasmania, upgrades and management of statewide stadium assets#
  • $21.7M for upgrading Police Housing statewide
  • $6M for a zero emission bus trial for Metro^
  • $2.4M for electronic monitoring of high-risk family
  • violence perpetrators^
  • $8.8M for increased support for the legal assistance sector*

HOUSING

  • $315M for social and affordable housing and homelessness – a total investment to over $615M, with 3,500 new social houses to be built from 2021 through to 2027
  • Record investment of $300M through Tasmania’s Affordable Housing Action Plan 1 and 2
  • New Community Housing Growth Program by 30 June 2023, including 2,350 new social housing dwellings
  • $58.4M to be invested under the CSHA Debt Waiver into a program of works through to June 2023. Including $53.6M to support 300 new social housing dwellings
  • Funding of $24.4M in 2021-22 under the CSHA Debt Waiver Agreement is provided to support the following projects:
    • Construction of 15 new Transitional Youth Units in Burnie
    • Development of 21 social housing units in Moonah
    • Completion of 188 social housing units in areas of high needs across Tasmania
  • $42.15M to commence the immediate redevelopment of the Hobart Showgrounds, including a range of social and affordable rental dwellings#
  • $20M towards two new supported accommodation facilities for older Tasmanians in the North and North West of the State
  • $32.5M for Housing Tasmania’s capital program
  • $15.3M for innovative new youth housing and homelessness initiatives, including an Under-16 Lighthouse Project, modular youth housing for 16 to 24 year olds, and a Dispersed Youth model
  • $12M for Public Housing initiatives - Energy Efficiency
  • $11M towards two homeless facilities, including the construction of 15 additional units at Launceston Women’s Shelter and 23 units for a new Burnie Youth Shelter
  • $10M towards a ‘Headworks Holiday’ for new residential subdivisions to unlock new land supply
  • $10M into HomeShare to support low-income Tasmanians buy their own home
  • Increase housing supply with a $2.5M new secondary dwelling incentive program

CLIMATE CHANGE AND SUPPORTING OUR WAY OF LIFE

  • $10M to implement Tasmania’s Climate Change Action Plan 2021-26 for practical actions to reduce emissions and build resilience to the impacts of climate change*
  • $600,000 for Charge Smart Grants program
  • $250,000 for the Carbon Farming Advice Pilot
  • $3M towards construction of rubber crumbing plant to re-use waste tyres
  • $18M to secure Tasmania’s iconic events and festivals
  • $3M to support research and development for all Tasmanian agricultural sectors that contribute to the AgriVision 2050 target*
  • $2.6M for the Rural Business Resilience Package#
  • $2.3M to protect Tasmania’s Disease-free status*
  • $2M for the Wild Fisheries Action Plan^
  • $1M to support the Swift Parrot Recovery Plan
  • $1M for new Inland Fisheries infrastructure*
  • $1M to address single use and problem plastics in Tasmania
  • $900,000 for the Landcare Action Grants Program
  • $590,000 to complete the Recreational Fishing improved boat and trailer parking
  • $460,000 for the Injured and Orphaned wildlife program*

EDUCATION

  • $56M for disability funding to support students and to meet learner needs*
  • $3.9M for the Education workforce roundtable including the Teacher Intern Placement Program initiative*
  • $5.3M to increase school quality literacy coaches to 40 commencing in 2022*
  • $2M per year to expand the Student Assistance Scheme, providing levies relief to families on low income
  • $1M to extend the 24 Carrot Gardens Project to additional three high schools and two primary schools* $320,000 to roll out the free sanitary items in Government schools*
  • $7M to renew and upgrade outdated classrooms state-wide*
  • $4.7M to build an online assessment platform for senior secondary assessments and exams*
  • $3.8M to provide free access to Speech pathologists, psychologists and social workers in child care and family learning centres*
  • $3.75M for a new renewable energy schools program to roll out solar panels in over 100 Government schools*
  • $5.36M to employ an additional 11.4 full time Grade 4 School Health Nurses and 3 full time Grade Clinical Nurse Educators*
  • $750,000 from 2022/23 for the new Stay ChatTY in schools program#
  • $6M to assist and support students who are impacted by trauma and help with behavioural challenges*
  • $2M to rollout a new professional development program in trauma for school leaders, teachers and teacher assistants^
  • $250,000 to provide online professional learning for the Wellbeing Lead Teacher and Principal in every government school
  • $15,000 for school health nurses to undertake specialised training in Youth Mental Health First aid
  • Finalise the commitment for all 57 Tasmanian High Schools offering Year 11 and 12 by 2022

HEALTH

  • $160M for additional elective surgeries and endoscopies and an additional 180 health staff State-wide*
  • $15.7 to implement the Health Workforce 2040 Strategy which includes recruitment, training, re-training and post-graduate training and recruitment processes*
  • $27.5M for community-based health care, including hospital-in-the-home services and other health care delivered in the home or community*
  • $15M to commence the initial phase of a Digital Transformation in Health*
  • $5M to further support and encourage positive work environments with a Positive Health Culture program*
  • $50M to fully fund phases one and two of our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service reforms and continue the broader roll out of the Tasmanian Mental Health Reform Program*
  • $14M for additional paramedic crews in Hobart and Launceston*
  • $2M to amend the Controlled Access Scheme and enable improved access for Medicinal Cannabis*
  • Over $9M for ill-health prevention and community-based wellbeing programs*
  • $2.2M to meet increasing demand for community mental health services^
  • $198M to meet increasing demand in hospitals and support opening beds*
  • $1.4M for Community Transport Services to support Tasmanians to access care*
  • $7.8M to continue and expand COVID-introduced mental health services, including a mental health phone triage service and increased capacity for Rural Alive and Well#
  • $5.1M to pilot an innovative Emergency Mental Health Co-Response Model^
  • $8M to support better GP after-hours access and reduce pressure on emergency departments.*
  • $4M towards the next five year Healthy Tasmania Strategy*
  • $18M for new public-private partnerships to deliver health care sooner
  • $20M for the Hospital Equipment Fund to replace and upgrade critical hospital equipment#
  • $1M for the Hospital Avoidance Co-investment Fund
  • $10.5M to strengthen home and community-based Palliative Care services*
  • $4.25M for Palliative Care Tasmania to educate and train GPs, community education and workforce development*
  • $6.8M for new public-private partnerships to deliver better palliative care services*
  • $8.5M for the Mental Health Hospital in the Home Pilot in the North-West^
  • $4.3M to establish a new Rural Medical Workforce Centre at the Mersey Community Hospital*

* Over four years # Over three years ^Over two years