User:Ottre/Nation Building and Jobs Plan

The Nation Building and Jobs Plan is an Australian intergovernmental finance plan to stimulate economic activity and support employment during the ongoing recession. Announced by Albanese (?) on 3 February 2009/major agreement/will fund an infrastructure program until 31 December 2012.

Role of the Commonwealth

 * National coordination
 * Funding for 2010/Ri publicity

Role of the States
Heads of Treasuries report expenditure

Coordination:
 * ACT
 * South Australia
 * Northern Territory


 * Community Housing Federation of Australia/possibly out of date/Director of Housing overseeing the stimulus in Victoria, actually being monitored and implemented by the Department of Human Services?

Program

 * Downgrading the Building Australia Fund by ~$7.5 billion (rounded up from 7.4?)
 * Building the education revolution
 * Halls, libraries
 * Victorian budget included $402.1 million to rebuild, renovate or extend 113 schools across the state/also tied into "digital education revolution" with exchange student programs to South Korea early as 2000
 * Science and language laboratories (?) in secondary schools
 * Ovals
 * Black Spot funding of $140 million for 2008-09 and $120 million for 2009-10
 * $150 million for boom gates and $150 million discretionary lc projects
 * $711 million for roads in 2008-09 and 2009-10

Response

 * Salvation Army