Delivering for Macedon
As your local member of Parliament, I am working hard every day to achieve the best outcomes for our community. I’m proud to have played my part in delivering so many important projects and reforms across Macedon. But there is always more to do, and there is more to come.
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Education
Building the Education State across Macedon.
- Delivering a $5.8 million Trades Hub at Gisborne Secondary College
- Free kindergarten programs - Best Start, Best Life
- Delivering first-rate facilities at Kyneton High School
- Modern, state of the art facilities at Kyneton Primary School
- $10 million rebuild for Daylesford Secondary College
- $11.6 million for a new competition-grade gymnasium and new classrooms at Gisborne Primary School
- Upgrades and new solar panels for New Gisborne Primary School
- New Music & Gym facilities at Woodend Primary School
- Delivering the Discovery Learning Centre for Lancefield Primary School
- Bigger and better classrooms for Riddells Creek Primary School students
- Transforming Sunbury Macedon Ranges Specialist School in Bullengarook
- $3.2 million upgrade for Romsey Primary School
- New STEAMM Centre at Mount Macedon Primary School
Community
Delivering facilities and services for the Macedon community
- Delivering facilities and services for the Macedon community
- New changerooms and courts at Kyneton Football Netball Club with a $1.5 million investment,
- $550,000 to support the revitalisation of Lions Park Reserve and skate park in Romsey.
- $100,000 grant for Lancefield Neighbourhood house and $50,000 for Riddells Creek Neighbourhood House.
- Award winning Romsey Ecotherapy Park
- $12 million to redevelop the Old Kyneton Primary School site into a community and creative hub
- $8.75 million for Macedon Ranges Trailproject
- Delivering $11.6 million to make the Macedon Ranges Regional Sports Precincta reality
- Redevelopment of the Daylesford Skate Park
- Restoration of the Mount Macedon Memorial Cross
- $1.25 million of community infrastructure projects completed at Lancefield Park
- Building female friendly facilitiesat Gardiner Reserve
- Support of the First Nations Assemblyand the Road Toward Treaty
- Romsey Ecotherapy Park
- Upgrade to Romsey’s Main Street
- $150,000 grant over three years to support the Daylesford ChillOut festival
- Supporting MRSC to improve and expand kerbside recycling across the Shire
- Supporting local clubs with defibrillators
- Campaspe River TrailImprovement and Connections Project & exercise equipment
Transport and Roads
Delivering more train and bus services, better facilities for commuters and safer roads for all road users.
- V-Line regional fares capped at the daily metropolitan price
- Better station car parksat Woodend, Kyneton, Gisborne and Riddells Creek
- More services on the Bendigo train line for Saturday and Sunday evenings.
- 100 new weekly bus services in Kyneton and new services connecting to Trentham
- Woodend FlexiRide service
- Better connecting Romsey and Lancefield with new bus services
- Boosting safety along Melbourne-Lancefield Road
- Building the Barry Street roundaboutin Romsey
- Creating safer intersections for all road users at Station Road and Saunders Road, New Gisborne and Melbourne Road and Kilmore Road, Gisborne
Health
Doing what matters for patients and healthcare workers
- A new comprehensive women's health clinic at the Bendigo Hospital
- New state-of-the-art $6.4M operating theatre at Daylesford Hospital
- Royal Commission into Mental Health
- LegislatingVoluntary Assisted Dying
- Smile Squad dental vansin all Victorian public schools
- Access to world class medical facility at Joan Kirner Women’s and Children’s Hospitalin Sunshine
- Implementing all recommendations of the Royal Commission into Family Violence
Environment
Protecting and preserving our natural environment
- Bringing back the State Electricity Commission
- Delivering more charging stations for Electric Vehicles
- Delivering a new Container Deposit Scheme
- Wombat Forest investigation by Victorian Environment Assessment Council
- Protecting the natural beauty of the Macedon Ranges through the Statement of Planning Policy
- Strategic Plan to protect Hanging Rock Solar homes programs
- Banning single-use plastic bags
- Ban on fracking in regional Victoria to protect farmers
Emergency Services
Supporting emergency services and protecting our community
- New CFA stations stations delivered, or on their way, at Mount Macedon, Carlsruhe, Metcalfe and Riddells Creek.
- Partnership with telecommunications providers to deliver 30 mobile infrastructure projects in the Hepburn and Macedon Ranges Shires – including new towers at Dales Creek, Benloch, Hepburn and Denver.
- Grants to support CFA stations across Macedon
Economy and Jobs
Supporting businesses and creating jobs
- Support for the Lancefield “Lost Watering Hole” Brewery including 24 new local jobs
- Wine Growth Fund to support growth for wineries in Macedon
- Artisanal, agriculture and premium food producers fund
- Reduced regional payroll tax
- Regional first home buyers grant
- Free support and advice for Macedon small business operators with the Small Business Bus
- Head Start Apprenticeships and Traineeshipsinitiative
- $440,000 invested in Local Roads to Marketprogram to upgrade Sidonia Road
- Expansion of Hardwicks Meat Works, Kyneton
- $1.5 million grant to upgrade Holgate Brewhouse Visitor Discovery Centre and Taproom, Woodend
- Luxury Brand, Rationale’s World HQ in Kyneton
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