WA Labor Government Achievements
METRONET & LOCAL JOBS
- Building the next generation of WA railcars locally for METRONET
- Froze TAFE fees and reduced fees by 50% for 34 high priority courses
- Delivered the WA Jobs Law to mandate State Government projects create local jobs
- Established the WA Industry Link online portal and advisory services to help WA businesses tender for Government contracts
- Established the Local Capability Fund for local small businesses to increase their competitiveness in procurement
- Introduced a new wave of liquor reforms to cut red tape for small businesses and grow the hospitality and tourism sectors
- Established a $16.4 million New Industries Fund to support and accelerate new and emerging businesses
- $200m school maintenance blitz
- $229.2 million for rebuilding our TAFEs program - including upgrades to campuses, expanding lower fees, and providing free short TAFE courses
INVESTING IN LOCAL SCHOOLS
- Converting classrooms into science labs at 200 primary schools and providing them with equipment and resources
- Published a STEM skills strategy to improve STEM education, with funding to start delivery and train teachers
- Hired an additional 120 teachers in public schools to oversee the delivery of mental health programs and to support regional Year 11 and 12 students
- Froze TAFE fees for four years
- Established a new training program at South Metropolitan TAFE, in partnership with Rio Tinto, to prepare workers for industry advancements, innovation and automation
COMMUNITY SAFETY
- Providing the WA Police Force with $73.4 million to immediately recruit an extra 150 police officers
- Delivering our Meth Action Plan including road-side drug testing, with a focus on the three pillars of prevention, protection and prosecution
- Providing an extra $5million for Operation Heat Shield - boosting police presence
- Introduced ‘No Body, No Parole’ laws, outlawed ‘revenge porn’ and increased the penalties for dangerous drivers who kill others
- Invested in two new women’s refuges, expanded existing counselling and support services throughout WA and funded a residential program to help perpetrators change their behaviour
- Introduced laws for mandatory reporting for religious ministers and priests where there is suspected child sexual abuse
- Dangerous sex offender’s legislation
SUPPORTING THE COMMUNITY
- Introduction of legislation to stop puppy farming
- Extended the loan book on the Labor Government initiative, Keystart, to help improve housing affordability, and create jobs
- Launched the Affordable Housing Action Plan to deliver an additional 7,700 homes and almost 6,000 jobs
- $7.4 million in free financial counselling services for Western Australians struggling to pay their bills
- Invested $20 million for Aboriginal In-home Support services to provide early intervention for Aboriginal families and help divert them away from the care system
- Joined the National Disability Insurance Scheme
- Allocated $401.6 million for water concessions for pensioners and seniors
- Funded hundreds of local sport and recreation projects so that more people have access to modern and upgraded sporting facilities in their communities
- Joined the National Redress Scheme for victims of child sexual abuse
- $28 million funding to address family and domestic violence in WA
- $6.8 million to homelessness support services across WA
THE ENVIRONMENT
- Banned single use plastic bags
- Container deposit scheme in WA – reducing waste and rubbish
- Stopped the flawed Roe 8 Perth Freight Link project upon coming to Government and introduced legislation to Parliament to protect the Beeliar Wetlands permanently
- Announced a bold vision to expand our conservation estate by five million hectares over five years, a 20 per cent increase, managed in collaboration with traditional owners
- Prohibiting fracking in 98 per cent of Western Australia and no fracking production will be permitted without the consent of Traditional Owners and farmers
- $60.3 million for WA's new Green Jobs Plan - creating more than 1,000 conservation jobs across the State
- $66.3 million funding for renewable energy projects across the state
PUTTING PATIENTS FIRST
- Delivered Urgent Care Clinics at Belmont City Medical Centre, Ridge Ascot Medical Centre and Waterhall Medical Centre
- Making Voluntary Assisted Dying law in Western Australia.
- Starting the process of building a new women’s and maternity hospital
- WA Future Health Research and Innovation Fund introduced
- Delivered 77 new beds to treat people with drug and alcohol dependency across the State