The Federal government is busy today and yesterday announcing various infrastructure projects that have been fast-tracked as part of the Commonwealth’s JobMaker plan to help the economy as it recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic.
On Friday the Prime Minister visited Cooma’s Polo Flat where the Snowy 2.0 project will have concrete segments made. Construction is underway on the facility to make the segments.
The Commonwealth and Northern Territory Governments will support infrastructure construction jobs across the NT by jointly investing an additional $53 million to deliver shovel-ready infrastructure projects and urgent road safety upgrades.
The Commonwealth and Queensland Governments will support infrastructure construction jobs across Queensland by jointly investing an additional $415 million to deliver shovel-ready infrastructure projects and urgent road safety upgrades.
The Commonwealth and ACT Governments will support construction jobs across the Canberra region by jointly investing an additional $35 million to deliver shovel-ready infrastructure projects and urgent road safety upgrades.
The Morrison and McGowan Governments will support construction jobs across Western Australia by jointly investing an additional $223 million to deliver shovel-ready infrastructure projects and urgent road safety upgrades.
Also part of the infrastructure is a visit by the Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Population, Cities and Urban Infrastructure, NSW Premier and NSW Minister for Transport to the NorthConnex tunnel.
The 3-billion dollar project is close to completion. Below is a video showing an end-to-end drive-through.