The Nation Building and Jobs Plan is an Australian intergovernmental finance plan to stimulate economic activity and support employment during the ongoing recession. Announced by Albanese (?) on 3 February 2009/major agreement/will fund an infrastructure program until 31 December 2012.
Role of the Commonwealth edit
- National coordination
- Funding for 2010/Ri publicity
Role of the States edit
Heads of Treasuries report expenditure
Coordination:
- Community Housing Federation of Australia/possibly out of date/Director of Housing overseeing the stimulus in Victoria, actually being monitored and implemented by the Department of Human Services?
Program edit
- Downgrading the Building Australia Fund by ~$7.5 billion (rounded up from 7.4?)
- Building the education revolution
- Halls, libraries
- Victorian budget included $402.1 million to rebuild, renovate or extend 113 schools across the state/also tied into "digital education revolution" with exchange student programs to South Korea early as 2000 [1]
- Science and language laboratories (?) in secondary schools
- Ovals
- Halls, libraries
- Black Spot funding of $140 million for 2008-09 and $120 million for 2009-10
- $150 million for boom gates and $150 million discretionary lc projects
- $711 million for roads in 2008-09 and 2009-10
Response edit
External links edit
- FaHCSIA
- National partnership agreement
- Engineering briefing from March 2009