(As at February 2022)
Health
- New $60m emergency department and general ward at Sutherland Hospital
- New $81m operating theatres (8) and endoscopy suites (2) at Sutherland Hospital (due 2023 and 2024)
- $7m for MRI at Sutherland Hospital (due 2023)
- New $10m car park at Sutherland Hospital (completed 2014)
- New integrated health facility on Sutherland Hospital campus (commenced 2015)
- More than 660 new nurses and midwives in the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District
- New Ambulance Superstation at Caringbah under $150m Sydney Ambulance Metropolitan Infrastructure Strategy program
- More than $700m redevelopment of St George Hospital (stages 1 and 2 completed – new emergency department, acute services building and birthing suite and additional parking; stage 3 due 2025 – new integrated ambulatory care precinct, increasing inpatient bed capacity as well as much needed enhanced outpatient and community-based services)
Public and active transport
- Upgrading peak hour capacity on T4 Illawarra line by 30% (underway for completion around 2024 as first part of $880m Sydney-wide program)
- All regular timetabled train services on T4 Illawarra line now air conditioned
- 229 extra weekly services on T4 Illawarra line (including 10 extra morning peak and 15 extra afternoon peak on Cronulla line each week); faster average peak hour travel times between Cronulla line and city
- Sutherland to Cronulla Active Transport Link shared off-road bike / pedestrian pathway stage 1 (Sutherland to Kirrawee completed; Kirrawee to Cronulla due for progressive completion from 2022)
- Grants for Sutherland Shire Council’s shared bike / pedestrian pathways at Woolooware Bay, Prince Charles Parade Kurnell, Tonkin Oval Cronulla and Wanda to North Cronulla (completed), and Elouera Road Cronulla and Kiora Road Miranda
- Opal card rolled out at all stations on T4 Illawarra line
- New steel canopies at 10 Sutherland Shire train stations
- New bus route 985 providing 272 trips per week between Miranda and Cronulla via Caringbah and Woolooware Bay.
- New public car parking at Cronulla train station (old “Stalag Cronulla”) (2013)
- Extra buses to Kurnell and Lilli Pilli
Roads
- Construction of M6 motorway underground north of Kogarah (due 2025)
- Planning of M6 motorway Kogarah to Loftus ($50m spent)
- More than $1.5m grant for widening of Captain Cook Drive to four lanes between Woolooware Road and Elouera Road
- Replacement of Gannons Road underbridge and grant to council to widen road underneath to 4 lanes
- Upgraded intersection at Kingsway / Gannons Road Caringbah (extra right turn lane for Kingsway into Gannons Road)
- Upgraded intersection at Kingsway / President Avenue Caringbah (extra right turn lane for Kingsway into President Avenue)
- Upgraded intersection of Gerrale Street / Elouera Road / Kingsway Cronulla (extra right turn lane for Elouera Road into Kingsway)
- Upgraded intersection at Acacia Road / President Avenue Kirrawee.
- Other upgrades along Princes Highway in Kirrawee and Gymea (in progress).
- Upgraded intersection at Gymea Bay Road / President Avenue Gymea.
- Upgraded intersection at Captain Cook Drive / The Boulevarde / Taren Point Road Caringbah (extending and duplicating right turn lane from Taren Point Road southbound into The Boulevarde).
- Upgraded intersection at Taren Point Road / Koonya Circuit (extending the right turn lane from Taren Point Road northbound into Koonya Circuit)
- Upgraded intersection at Taren Point Road / Alexander Avenue / Holt Road
- Upgraded intersection at Port Hacking Road / Princes Highway Sylvania
- Extended clearways on Taren Point Road and (between Sutherland and Blakehurst) Princes Highway
- Extended parking restrictions on Kingsway between Willarong Road and Kareena Road Caringbah
- Traffic lights at Kingsway / Woolooware Road
- Crash barriers on Captain Cook Bridge
- Pedestrian barriers at Kingsway Cronulla
- Flashing lights at all schools in the Sutherland Shire
- $40,000 towards Cronulla traffic study
Education
- Major upgrade of Cronulla High School (in progress)
- Air conditioning installation and upgrade at Caringbah, Kirrawee and Woolooware High Schools (in progress) and Kurnell Public School.
- Lifts at Cronulla, Kirrawee and Woolooware High Schools; Gymea Bay Public School; and Jacaranda Preschool.
- Bathroom access upgrades at Cronulla, Kirrawee and Woolooware High Schools and Gymea Bay Public School.
- Installation and upgrades to walkways at Cronulla, Kirrawee and Woolooware High Schools and Burraneer Bay, Cronulla, Cronulla South, Gymea Bay and Yowie Bay Public Schools.
- COLA and outdoor shelter installation at Kirrawee High School; Caringbah North, Cronulla, Cronulla South, Kurnell and Woolooware Public Schools; and Grays Point Preschool.
- Outdoor area upgrades at Burraneer Bay, Caringbah, Cronulla, Grays Point, Laguna Street, Lilli Pilli, Woolooware and Yowie Bay Public Schools; Our Lady of Fatima Caringbah; OLMC Burraneer; St Francis De Sales School; and Cronulla Preschool.
- Other projects including $60,000 to upgrade pedestrian footpaths at Our Lady of Fatima Caringbah, $50,000 for Cronulla South Public School library upgrade and $30,000 for Laguna Street Public School canteen.
- Cronulla High School hall upgrade (in progress)
- Construction of a new COLA at Caringbah High School (in progress)progress
Environment and public spaces
(See also below under “Other”)
- $46m upgrade to Cronulla Wastewater Treatment Plant
- Sewerage upgrades across the Shire, including $3m for new valves and controllers at Kurnell
- $4.5m in Sydney Water upgrades to the Cronulla Wastewater Pumping Station
- $41m (plus $25m from the federal government) to upgrade Kamay Botany Bay National Park – new public art (completed), new visitor centre, exhibition area, cafe, education area, local office at Kurnell and ferry wharves at Kurnell and La Perouse (due early 2020s)
- Upgraded Cape Baily Walking Track and Cape Solander road access in Kamay Botany Bay National Park
- Over $10m upgrade of iconic Coast Track in the Royal National Park
- Up to $5m for walkway around Hungry Point Cronulla from Salmon Haul Bay to Darook Park (due early 2020s)
- Around $850,000 of other funding for Hungry Point Reserve Cronulla upgrades for public opening, including new toilet block, picnic facilities, landscaping, additional lighting and signage.
- New whale watching station at Cape Solander (in progress)
- $100,000 for viewing platform at Cronulla Park
Emergency services
- New Marine Rescue NSW Training Academy at Hungry Point Cronulla (announced)
- New $800,000 “super boat” for Marine Rescue NSW Botany Port Hacking Unit at Cronulla
- $500,000 for upgrade of Cronulla Surf Life Saving Club
- $500,000 for upgrade of North Cronulla Surf Life Saving Club
- $70,000 for earlier upgrade of North Cronulla Surf Life Saving Club
- $50,000 for upgrade of Elouera Surf Life Saving Club
- Over $240,000 for Wanda Surf Life Saving Club, in particular clubhouse upgrades
- New fire tankers for Grays Point and Kurnell Rural Fire Service
Sport and recreation
(See also above under “Emergency services” for surf life saving)
- Grants for upgrades of Tonkin Street wharf and dredging ($1,150,000), Bonna Point Kurnell boat ramp and car park($550,000), small craft launching ramp at Lugano Avenue Burraneer ($225,000), Wally’s Wharf sewerage pump-out ($185,000), Hospital Bay jetty and pontoon ($78,000), Gunnamatta Bay boat ramp ($30,000).
- $700,000 grant for council’s new Marang Parklands hockey fields near Greenhills Beach.
- Largest off shore artificial reef in NSW, off Port Hacking
- $110,000 for Gymea United FC hall extension
- $350,000 for Cronulla Seagulls FC clubhouse upgrades
- Annual grants totalling nearly $3 million, under the Local Sports Grants program and Community Building Partnership program
Other
- New Service NSW one-stop shop at Westfield Miranda
- $100,000 to renovate Cronulla Arts Theatre and extend foyer
- Various other grants including under the Community Building Partnership Program
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Earlier this week I was out and about in the Shoalhaven City local government area, visiting Berry, Shoalhaven Heads, Nowra and Ulladulla - including checking out:
✅ Progress on the Shoalhaven Hospital redevelopment
✅ Options for extra housing near the hospital and activating the nearby Shoalhaven River foreshore
✅ Waterway problems at Shoalhaven Heads
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A lovely spot a bit like Cronulla 50 years ago don’t let them spoil it.
Thank you Mark
Just a couple of hours at the helm of your yacht from Gunnamatta Bay ...
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Honoured to attend two more moving Anzac Day services this afternoon:
- The 18th Coloured Digger March and Service, honouring Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and South Sea Islander service men and women.
- The lunchtime commemorative service at the Anzac Memorial in Hyde Park.
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Well done Mark, again
🌞 Good Morning 🌍 🌹Lest We Forget💐 🙏 HaVe A GrEaT DaY! #GreAt_PhotOs, 👍 #Amazing_Work, #GreAt_LeAdeR 👏
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Honoured to attend moving Anzac Day services at the Martin Place Cenotaph and Cronulla (and to be represented at Caringbah and Miranda).
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It was a very busy morning for you serving the people of NSW and honouring those who protect our nation. Thank you Mark Speakman. 🙏
Lest we forget.🙏
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What a wonderful day. I love it every year. And cherish these wonderful men and women. Thank you for all you did for us.❤️.
Lest We Forget. On this most important ANZAC day we commentate the memory of all the men and women who served in the military and other ways to keep this great country free. We thank God for their service to our country. Thanks Councillor Allan Green 22 years serving Blacktown City Council community.
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Out and about in Eurobodalla Shire yesterday with Andrew Constance including:
✅ Speaking at a community meeting with 250+ citizens and accepting a 18,000 signature petition to take to Parliament to keep open the Batemans Bay emergency department, which the Minns Labor Government intends to close
✅ Checking (non-)progress of the new Eurobodalla Hospital announced in 2020 - still an empty paddock
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Why would they close an emergency committee centre. ????