Ian Goodenough (Moore, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I wish to inform the House that, since the last sitting of parliament, a number of development milestones have been achieved in Moore. Both of the grade separated bridges at the intersections of Wanneroo Road with Joondalup Drive and Ocean Reef Road have opened to traffic, improving the east-west connection between the communities of Joondalup and Wanneroo. The Commonwealth provided $100 million of infrastructure funding to build these bridges, alleviating traffic congestion.

Let us not forget that the additional $4.5 billion in GST revenue, which our federal members and senators succeeded in securing for Western Australia through hard-won reforms to the Commonwealth-state GST-sharing arrangements, has gone a long way towards funding state based infrastructure projects, including the extension of the northern suburbs railway to Yanchep, the extension of the Mitchell Freeway to Alkimos and the commencement of civil construction works at the Ocean Reef Marina redevelopment. Without the federal government's recent GST reforms, Western Australia's budget would not be in the strong position it is in today to be able to invest in key infrastructure for our community. Our next major infrastructure priority is to connect Whitfords Avenue to a new, realigned Gnangara Road, further unlocking the economic development potential of the Wangara industrial area. (Time expired)