(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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Eddy Boas is a Holocaust survivor.
Eddy was three months old when Nazi Germany invaded Holland in 1940. He was three years old when he was sent with his family to a concentration camp. Of 107,000 Dutch Jews deported to concentration camps, only 5,000 survived - including Eddy, his parents and brother. Sadly his father died in 1948 (before Eddy and his family migrated to Australia).
Despite all the horrors of the Nazi regime, Eddy and other Holocaust survivors, and the Jewish community generally, still face today the deeply offensive and intimidating display of Nazi symbols. Those symbols are also deeply disturbing for the entire community – in particular groups victimised by the Nazi regime – including Christians, LGBTQIA+ people and people with disability – as well as for service men and women who’ve fought for our freedoms.
This week in NSW we created a long overdue criminal offence - knowingly display a Nazi symbol in public without a reasonable excuse.
The rights of Hindus, Buddhists and Jains to use a traditional religious symbol are also protected.
I was humbled when Eddy thanked me, colleagues Mark Coure and Gabrielle Upton, the Jewish Board of Deputies, the Hindu Council of Australia, and all those who have advocated for and supported this bill ... because we should be thanking Eddy Boas, for his courage, for continuing to share his extraordinary and moving story and for providing us with a better understanding of why this new law is so important. ... See MoreSee Less
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Eddy has a very important story to tell. Hopefully we embrace the lesson to be learnt.
You have made huge differences to our state in your role.
Great news, now we should apply such legislation across the board to other religions as well. No one should ever be subjected to such treatment whether they are Jewish, Muslim or Christian faith or otherwise. 🤲 ❤️✡️✝️☪️❤️
Amazing work
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Thank you.
I'm Jewish. My grandma's family fled eastern Europe to escape persecution of Jews. But this law seems really dumb to me. Surely it's better to be able to identify Nazi extremists? Won't this just make them hidden? Is there any EVIDENCE that this will actually reduce hate, racism and intolerance in society? Even if there is evidence that the swastika is "used as a recruitment tool", won't they now just switch to something else? (making surveillance and counter-terrorism activities more difficult) I'm open to persuasion but I just can't see how this will help.
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Three Parliamentary days this week in the life of an Attorney General:
✅ Introducing a bill to create new offences with tough penalties for offenders who assault frontline health and emergency services workers.
✅ Introducing a bill to ensure offenders convicted of historical crimes are sentenced according to current sentencing patterns and practices.
✅ Passing a new law through both Houses making it a criminal offence to knowingly display a Nazi symbol in public without a reasonable excuse.
✅ Passing new laws through both Houses updating and enhancing the Ombudsman’s powers.
✅ Passing new laws through the Lower House governing elections, in preparation for the next State election on 25 March 2023 and to restore integrity to funding caps on third party campaigners.
✅ Updating the Lower House in Question Time on our well-advanced work to criminalise coercive control in NSW.
✅ Community Legal Centres NSW Parliamentary showcase.
✅ 10 statements in the Lower House recognising achievers from the Cronulla electorate.
✈️ Today it’s off to Melbourne to meet Commonwealth, State and Territory Attorneys-General. We’ll be discussing, among other things, NSW-led projects in further defamation law reform surrounding internet intermediaries and laws for access to digital assets after death or incapacity. ... See MoreSee Less
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A great parliamentarian and a great AG!!
You are a doer! Hardworking and clever to boot. Thank goodness we have you representing us in NSW ⭐️
Thankyou AG for achieving & providing this staggering list. No surprise that when we put truly accomplished people in Parli we get accomplisments!
Well done Mark. 👏. Great outcomes for NSW.
Some don't have much to look back on achievement wise in Parliament. Few can reflect and say "I made a difference and significant change to protect the vulnerable" - you can certainly say that Mark Speakman.
Nsw government leading the way! Huge achievement 👏
Thank you, Mark Speakman for your hard work in continuously delivering for Cronulla and NSW.
Exceptional service to our state.
Congratulations led by the best
A big week for the AG and thankful that your dedication is focussed on the community.
Appreciate your work for the State and Cronuila. Two of my fave political "Marks" will be in he same room - travel well!
Excellent news!
Well done keeping busy is what we all do best
Great way to end the political week.... thank you so much
Well done Mark
Great work Mark Speakman !! Happy to now be a Cronulla constituent for the last 3 weeks too mate. 😀
Excellent 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Excellent work Mark - thank you!
Mark Speakman can you expand on the detail of the tougher penalties on assaults of health care and frontline emergency service workers please? I’m very interested in learning more about this. Cheers 👍🏼
Big week - thank you.
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Axios, thank you Mark Speakman 👏⚖️🏛
when s10 is not the Magistrate‘s favourite outcome then, and only then will justice be balanced. Maximum sentencing is rarely handed down - emergency service workers are aware of the institutional barriers.
Please do something to back up the years of work heartache , personal funds and passion put in the create the ‘Brumby Bill’ to protect the handful of iconic Australian Brumbies of the high country. They are the victims of propaganda and hatred by those deflecting from the absolute destruction of vast areas of National Park by humans. NPWS failed completely to protect them or enact the bill. They are now decimating the remaining horses. 200 years they’ve lived in that country and now a few influential people have mounted a campaign of death. This is not what Australians want if they knew and saw the truth-
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🥇 Fantastic run Caringbah South’s Oliver Hoare !
🥇 Ollie is the first Aussie to win gold in the 1500m / event (or its predecessor mile event) winner at the Commonwealth Games since Herb Elliott in 1958.
Also a Commonwealth Games record.
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A great local and North Cronulla Surf Club Lifesaver and competitor
Congratulations Ollie. Very proud of you
Wonderful race & win 🏆
That was very special.
Brilliant
Also Sutherland District Athletics Club His dad also a life member.
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Scott Benson
Well done. ⭐️🥇🏆
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Welcome to the Gamay Rangers - Botany Bay as honorary National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) rangers in Kamay Botany Bay National Park and Towra Point Nature Reserve.
They’re the first NSW locations where an Aboriginal ranger organisation has been officially appointed as honorary rangers.
The Gamay Rangers will have the same operational authority as our excellent NPWS rangers and field officers, supporting conservation and compliance work (including protecting marine mammals) with their traditional knowledge and modern training.
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Brilliant work Robert Cooley and the Gamay Rangers. Well done !!!!
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Mikaela Jade xx
Congratulations
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🔴🟡 Men from culturally diverse backgrounds are over-represented in NSW coastal drownings. Swim Brothers was founded by Omar Mahmoud and Feroz Sattar to teach swimming and ocean safety after a group of men from a western Sydney mosque almost drowned in a rip and were saved by off-duty surf lifesavers.
🔴🟡 They’ve now partnered with Wanda Surf Life Saving Club and Surf Life Saving NSW to steer the graduation on the weekend of seven young Muslim men as lifesavers after achieving their Bronze Medallion.
🔴🟡 This ongoing initiative will improve ocean safety and promote community cohesion. ... See MoreSee Less
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Thanks for coming out yesterday. We are humbled by your support & all the incredible organisations and people who’ve helped us in increasing representation, reducing drownings & leading community cohesion by example . We look forward to seeing you whilst we’re out on patrol this summer 🔴🟡
Great initiative.
I saw this on the news last night, what an outstanding program and so very important
Extremely Well Done by Wanda SLSC and all involved, a great program. Reminds me and takes me back to 2006-07 and the 'On the Same Wave' program with 20 male & female Muslim Australians. Broke new ground for inclusive water safety program.
Fantastic program 👏👏👏
Love this.
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🌲 National Tree Day was the occasion to add 1000 new plants, all indigenous to local dunes, at the Greenhills hind dune, targeting bare areas.
🌱 Healthy coastal dunes are more important than ever, with the ongoing threat of serious beach erosion.
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Great work by all.
Good work sir
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Thanks Mark for your ongoing support of Sutherland Shire Bushcare and the Sutherland Shire Council Bushland Unit. You have definitely got your hands dirty numerous times over the years doing environmental works (tree planting, weeding etc) and your support has been greatly appreciated in regards to grant applications and funding requests. A special thanks to the SSC Bushcare staff and the wonderful Bushcare Volunteers for putting on an exceptional event.