The peak body for Australia’s growth councils has welcomed news of $750M in federal funding for priority local road and community infrastructure projects.
The National Growth Areas Alliance represents the fast growing outer urban councils around Australia, which are home to 5.3M people and growing nearly three times as fast as the rest of the county.
The Alliance says vital infrastructure to get people to work, study and home is lagging behind the population boom, and it applauds the “long overdue acknowledgement” of outer suburbs in the announcement made today by federal minister Catherine King.