(As at December 2022)
Health
- New $60m emergency department and general ward at Sutherland Hospital (2019).
- New $81m eight operating theatres and two endoscopy suites at Sutherland Hospital (due 2023 and 2024).
- $7m for MRI at Sutherland Hospital (due 2023).
- New $10m car park at Sutherland Hospital (2014).
- New integrated health facility on Sutherland Hospital campus (2015).
- New Ambulance Superstation at Caringbah (2018).
- Major redevelopments of St George Hospital (completed: new emergency department, acute services building and birthing suite and additional parking; due mid-2020s: new integrated ambulatory care precinct, increasing inpatient bed capacity and enhanced outpatient and community-based services).
Public and active transport
- Upgrading peak hour capacity on T4 Illawarra line by up to 30%.
- All regular timetabled train services on T4 Illawarra line now air conditioned.
- New ferry wharves at Kurnell and La Perouse (construction starting 2023, subject to federal environmental approval).
- Shared off-road bike / pedestrian pathway (SCATL) – Sutherland to Kirrawee completed; Jackson Ave to Gannons Road construction starts early 2023; other sections funded; progressive completion by mid-2020s.
- Grants for shared bike / pedestrian pathways at Woolooware Bay, Prince Charles Parade, Tonkin Oval, Wanda – North Cronulla, Elouera Road and Kiora Road.
- 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.
- Extra buses to Kurnell and Lilli Pilli.
Roads
- Construction of M6 motorway underground south to Kogarah (due 2025).
- Planning of M6 motorway Kogarah to Loftus ($50 million 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.
Education
- Major upgrade of Cronulla High School – 10 new permanent learning spaces, a new canteen, new administration areas, upgraded student and staff amenities (construction commencing early 2023) and school hall extension (subject to tender).
- Air conditioning installation and upgrade at Caringbah, Kirrawee and Woolooware High Schools 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.
- Walkways at Cronulla, Kirrawee and Woolooware High Schools and Burraneer Bay, Caringbah, Cronulla, Cronulla South, Gymea Bay, Laguna Street and Yowie Bay Public Schools.
- COLAs and outdoor shelters at Caringbah High School, Kirrawee High School; Caringbah North, Cronulla, Cronulla South, Kurnell and Woolooware Public Schools.
- Outdoor areas at Burraneer Bay, Caringbah, Cronulla, Grays Point, Kurnell, Laguna Street, Lilli Pilli, Woolooware and Yowie Bay Public Schools; Our Lady of Fatima Caringbah; OLMC Burraneer; St Francis De Sales School.
- 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.
- New LED lighting at most schools.
Environment and public spaces
(See also below under “Other”)
- 67km Great Southern Walk from Kurnell to Sublime Point – construction underway, scheduled finish 2024 (with more than $12m in upgrades already to Kamay and Royal coast tracks).
- New whale watching platform and associated amenities at Cape Solander – opened December 2022.
- New visitor centre at Kamay Botany Bay National Park – construction commencing 2023 (complementing public art installed 2020).
- $6.9 million for clifftop walk around Hungry Point, linking the Esplanade and Darook Park – construction commencing 2023.
- 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.
- $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.
- All Cronulla ocean beaches rated very good (6 beaches – the top rating – “excellent … water quality and …suitable for swimming almost all of the time”) or good (Boat Harbour and [South] Cronulla) in 2021-22 State of the Beaches report.
- $100,000 for viewing platform at Cronulla Park.
Emergency services
- $2.4 million for upgrades of Cronulla, North Cronulla, Elouera and Wanda Surf Life Saving Clubs.
- New $800,000 “super boat” for Marine Rescue NSW Botany Port Hacking Unit at Cronulla.
- New fire tankers for Grays Point and Kurnell Rural Fire Service.
Sport and recreation
(See also above under “Emergency services” for surf life saving)
- $2.8 million for 5 Sports at Endeavour Sports High School – construction of a new accessible all-weather indoor sports centre and replacement of main playing field with multi-sport synthetic surface.
- Over $2.2 million in grants for wharves and boating at Tonkin Street, Bonna Point, Lugano Avenue Burraneer, Wally’s Wharf, Hospital Bay and Gunnamatta Bay.
- $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.
Other
- New Service NSW one-stop shop at Westfield Miranda.
- $100,000 to renovate Cronulla Arts Theatre and extend foyer.
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.🙏
We will remember them
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.
We will remember them
Lest We Forget ❤️
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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
✅ Checking (non-)progress on the Moruya bypass - no commitment to any timetable and no update since the 2022 consultation report under the previous government (see short video in comments below). ... See MoreSee Less
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Why would they close an emergency committee centre. ????
Remembering the victims of the Bondi Junction tragedy, supporting their families and first responders and others impacted, and coming together as a united community, at a Bondi candlelight vigil tonight. 🕯️ ... See MoreSee Less
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Great effort Mark!