{"id":6672,"date":"2020-05-23T12:57:30","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T12:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=6672"},"modified":"2020-05-23T12:57:30","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T12:57:30","slug":"newcastle-road-infrastructure-funding-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/05\/23\/newcastle-road-infrastructure-funding-welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWCASTLE ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING WELCOME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Member for Newcastle Sharon Claydon has welcomed a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/investment.infrastructure.gov.au\/infrastructure_investment\/local-roads-community-infrastructure-program\/index.aspx\">Federal investment of $1.14 million<\/a>\u00a0for road projects in Newcastle.<br \/>\nMs Claydon said the funding was designed to stimulate local economies battered by the COVID-19 pandemic crisis.<br \/>\n\u201cThe funding will be delivered to the City of Newcastle to accelerate priority projects,\u201d Ms Claydon said.<br \/>\n\u201cLocal spending on local projects is one of the best ways to get the economy moving.\u201d<br \/>\nMs Claydon said she\u2019d written to the Deputy Prime Minister to back the City of Newcastle\u2019s bid for funding of their priority projects and to seek assurances for a fair distribution of public funds.<br \/>\n\u201cThe funding will support priority projects from a list submitted to the Government in March,\u201d Ms Claydon said.<br \/>\n\u201cI was very concerned that this could turn into another sports rorts disaster so I wrote to the Deputy Prime Minister to back the bid and call for a fair distribution of these public funds.\u201d<br \/>\nMs Claydon said that while the modest roads infrastructure funding was welcome, it was still disappointing the Morrison Government excluded council workers from the JobKeeper program, forcing the State Government to fill the breach.<br \/>\n\u201cI absolutely welcome this funding which will help stimulate local economic activity,\u201d Ms Claydon said.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s still unfortunate that the Government didn\u2019t recognise the important of local economies and local jobs when it excluded council workers from the JobKeeper program.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Member for Newcastle Sharon Claydon has welcomed a\u00a0Federal investment of $1.14 million\u00a0for road projects in Newcastle. Ms Claydon said the funding was designed to stimulate local economies battered by the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. \u201cThe funding will be delivered to the City of Newcastle to accelerate priority projects,\u201d Ms Claydon said. \u201cLocal spending on local &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/05\/23\/newcastle-road-infrastructure-funding-welcome\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NEWCASTLE ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING WELCOME&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}