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Budget 2015: Boost to Deakin through National Stronger Regions Fund
The 2015 Budget delivers $3 million through the Government’s National Stronger Regions Fund to construct a new Centre for Regional Knowledge and Innovation in Ringwood.
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Budget 2015: Abbott Government maintains commitment to build the East West Link
The 2015 Budget confirms that $3 billion in Commonwealth funding will remain available to the first Victorian Government willing to build the East West Link.
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Budget 2015: $5.5b Growing Jobs and Small Business package
The new $5.5 billion Growing Jobs and Small Business package will help small businesses in Deakin invest more, grow more, and employ more.
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Budget 2015: Jobs for Families package delivers choice for Deakin families
The 2015 Budget delivers on the Coalition Government’s commitment to support families by making child care simpler, more affordable, more flexible, and more accessible.
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Budget 2015: Budget delivers Deakin schools record levels of funding
Students in the electorate of Deakin are big winners in the 2015 Budget, which delivers a record $15.7 billion in 2015-16 for all schools across Australia.
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Budget 2015: Roads to Recovery a double boost to local roads in Deakin
Local streets and roads in Deakin will benefit from the Commonwealth Government’s Roads to Recovery Programme being doubled in 2015–16.
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Budget 2015: Federal funding guarantee for preschools in Deakin
The Abbott Government is to continue the 15 hours per week four-year-old kindergarten programme with $840 million over 2016 and 2017.
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Budget 2015: Child care visit gives parents a say on upcoming families’ package
Minister for Social Services Scott Morrison visited Croydon South to discuss the Abbott Government’s upcoming families’ package, which includes a $246m pilot programme to extend subsidy support to home care services provided by nannies.
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Media Statement: Labor’s Western Distributor Proposal
The announcement today that Daniel Andrews will begin planning the new Western Distributor road ahead of the congestion-busting East West Link is a slap in the face to residents in Melbourne’s outer-eastern suburbs.
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LABOR’S EAST WEST LINK BETRAYAL
Residents in Melbourne’s outer-eastern suburbs will despair at Labor’s decision to put the East West Link project on the scrap heap.
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