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From YouTube: Budget Forum 2020 Wade Noonan
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Hon Wade Noonan presentation at Brimbank State and Federal Budget Forum 2020
B
Thanks
jason,
for
that
very
warm
and
and
fine
and
long
introduction,
it
makes
me
feel
a
bit
old
when
you
run
through
all
of
that,
and
I'm
glad
you
mentioned
my
my
involvement
with
the
indigenous
marathon
foundation,
which
is
something
very
close
to
my
heart.
So
it's
an
appropriate
place
to
start
by
acknowledging
the
traditional
owners,
as
others
have
during
this
session,
and
pay
my
respects
to
the
elders
that
might
be
with
us
and
step
us
into
my
presentation
before
I
get
into
the
detail.
B
Just
just
want
to
congratulate
grim
bank
city,
council
and
stakeholders.
Today,
look
it's
been
a
difficult
year,
but
I've
watched
with
some
admiration
in
relation
to
the
way
the
grim
bank
city
council
have
provided
this
wonderful
level
of
leadership
through
their
offices
and
their
counsellors
and
mayor
and
ceos,
so
in
particular
around
the
covered
response,
but
also
maintaining
a
very
strong
focus
on
social
justice
and
inclusion,
which
is
absolutely
appropriate
not
just
in
brimbank
but
across
melbourne's
west,
and
also
crafting
a
really
exciting
vision
for
brinbank
going
forward.
B
You
know
a
longer-term
vision
for
our
our
region,
being
melbourne's
west
from
2020
to
2040
and
I'll
explain
why
we've
done
this
work,
but
before
I
I
step
into
it,
I
did
see
that
one
of
my
colleagues
sue
legrecker
from
lead
west
who's
been
really
quite
critical
to
the
creation
of
this
document
is
also
with
us
this
morning.
So
a
special
shout
out
to
sue
legrecker
brook's,
also
helping
me
with
the
slides.
B
So
I'm
going
to
get
to
take
us
to
the
second
slide,
which
is
really
what
the
outline
of
my
presentation
is
today
that
is
who
is
womeda?
What
is
a
city
deal
I'll?
Give
you
a
bit
of
background
to
it
and
tell
you
how
we've
structured
our
governance
to
to
prepare
this
particular
proposal.
B
Next
slide,
thanks
bro,
so
who
is
waimea
well
up
until
2017?
We
actually
didn't
have
a
regional
grouping
in
melbourne's
west,
just
folk
focusing
on
economic
development
and
jobs.
Now
I
know
this
seems
quite
extraordinary
and
there
are
other
very
good
regional
groups,
but
this
group
was
formed
essentially
just
to
focus
on
how
do
we
grow
jobs?
B
And
you
heard
from
lindley
about
the
pressures
of
unemployment
in
our
region,
so
a
very
small
outfit
that
we've
got
a
very
strong,
independent
board,
which
is
chaired
by
steve
brack's
former
premier,
but
it
also
has
all
of
the
leaders
from
the
various
large-scale
employers
across
melbourne's.
Where
so
I
speak
of
western
health
victoria
university.
B
B
So
we
only
have
a
small
staff,
I'm
one
of
two
part-time
staff
and
our
primary
objective
is
to
try
and
influence
new
economic
development
opportunities
for
melbourne's
west,
but
to
put
it
in
very
straight
crude
terms,
it's
about
creating
more
local
jobs,
close
to
where
people
live
and
a
greater
diversity
in
the
job
opportunities
for
people
in
melbourne's.
West
we've
done
this
by
releasing
a
number
of
reports
where
we
use
an
economist
and
the
our
board,
and
we
we
do
a
bit
of
stakeholder
discussion
as
well.
Just
at
a
high
level.
B
We
started
in
2017
with
an
economic
blueprint
for
melbourne's
west,
but
we've
also
released
a
number
of
other
reports
and
you'll
notice
that
sunshine
daring
to
be
great,
which
is
one
that
we
released
about
this
time
last
year,
created
a
lot
of
interest
and
discussion
around
the
future
of
sunshine,
which
is
exactly
what
my
meter
exists
for
and
exactly
what
we
want
to
be
doing
talking
very
positively
about
the
opportunities
in
melbourne's
west
and
particularly
in
brimbank.
B
Moving
on
to
the
next
slide,
and
that
is
to
talk
about
this
city
deal
a
city
deal
is
essentially
a
creation,
a
policy
creation
of
the
federal
government,
the
morrison
government.
What
it's
designed
to
do
is
to
bring
three
levels
of
government,
together
with
the
community,
to
work
out
a
shared
vision
for
productive
and
livable
cities.
I
think
I've
lifted
that
straight
off
their
website.
B
You
can,
you
can
tell
it's
government
speak,
but
it's
really
about
bringing
the
forces
of
three
like
three
levels
of
government
together
and
and
what
it's
about
is
about
sort
of
alignment,
around
planning
investments,
accelerating
growth
and
job
opportunity
in
stimulating
urban
renewal
and
driving
economic
reforms.
There
has
been
eight
city
deals
done
across
australia.
Only
one
has
been
done
in
in
victoria
so
far,
and
that's
been
done
in
geelong
had
a
high
focus
on
tourism,
including
in
geelong
and
the
great
ocean
road
as
well.
B
What
it's
what's
done
is
has
brought
370
million
dollars
worth
of
investment
to
that
region.
So
when
we're
talking
about
city
deals,
we're
talking
about
big
bickies,
because
the
most
recent
city
deal
that
was
done
has
been
done
in
perth
announced,
I
think,
last
month
worth
about
1.5
billion
and
a
really
high
focus
on
universities,
skills
and
bringing
people
into
central
perth.
B
B
Then
there's
a
usually
a
fairly
long
and
extensive
period
of
discussions
with
stakeholders,
including
many
that
would
be
on
this
forum
today
and
then
once
that
is
done,
then
you're
into
implementation
by
way
of
annual
progress
reports
and
most
city
deals
are
5
10
in
some
cases
up
to
20
years
long,
depending
on
the
breadth
or
investment
involved
in
those
city,
deals
next
slide
thanks
brooke.
B
The
background
to
this
has
been
fairly
extensive,
so
there
has
been
various
delegations
from
melbourne's,
west
and
north
up
to
canberra
up
to
spring
street,
to
talk
about
the
importance
of
our
growing
area.
B
We
had
a
breakthrough
in
may
last
year,
when
minister
tujj,
the
federal
minister,
wrote
to
all
the
local
government
and
advocacy
lead
bodies
in
melbourne's,
north
and
west,
and
basically
said
if
they
were
elected
again,
they
would
seek
to
deliver
a
city
deal
in
melbourne's
west
there's
been
a
number
of
roundtables,
as
you
would
expect
just
sort
of
to
scope
out
how
this
would
work,
and
that
has
triggered
essentially
a
number
of
groups
which
I've
explained
shortly
to
come
together
in
melbourne's,
north
and
west,
to
try
and
work
out
how
we
would
approach
a
city
deal
and
what
would
be
in
it.
B
I
think
it's
probably
worth
noting.
The
very
last
item
on
this
particular
slide
indicates
that,
just
a
week
ago,
minister
taj's
office
indicated
that
they
intend,
on
proceeding
with
a
city,
deal
with
a
hope
to
secure
securing
an
agreement
across
all
three
levels
of
government
in
in
the
first
half
of
2021.
B
The
reason
that's
significant
is
like,
like
everything
else,
that's
happened
this
year.
Covert
has
really
put
a
spanner
in
the
works
so
where
we
would,
where
we
thought
we
might
be
proceeding
at
a
more
accelerated
rate.
They've
had
their
focus
elsewhere,
as
has
the
state
government,
as
has
local
government
important
to
note
that
city
deals
are
very
much
alive
and
well,
and
there
is
an
intention
to
move
one
forward
in
melbourne's
west
next
slide,
rook,
so
governance
think
about
melbourne's,
north
and
west.
B
Think
about
how
extraordinarily
large
melbourne's,
north
and
west
is
and
how
quickly
it's
growing
and
how
hard
it
is
potentially
to
get
an
alignment
of
views
across
all
of
the
various
groups
that
exist
in
melbourne's,
north
and
west.
What
we
did
is
we
set
up
a
steering
committee
and
working
party
which,
on
the
western
side,
has
involved
juanita,
which
I'm
representing
lead
west,
and
I
mentioned
sue
lagreca
and
victoria
universities.
B
B
Next
slide
goes
to
the
scope
of
our
work.
Now
we
have
had
worked
intensively
across
four
or
five
months
to
prepare
a
report.
What
that
looked
at
is
both
the
strengths
and
the
challenges.
So
what
are
the
things
that
are
happening
in
melbourne's
west?
Where
are
our
competitive
strengths?
What
infrastructure
is
coming
to
our
region?
What
will
that
enable
to
happen
when
it's
in
its
investment?
We
looked
at
all
of
the
strengths
and
challenges
in
our
area.
Again,
we
want
to
paint
a
really
positive
view
of
what
our
region
has
to
offer.
B
So
in
thinking
about
the
theme-
and
I
talked
about
geelong-
having
a
sort
of
a
focus
on
the
visitor
economy,
the
four
themes
that
our
group
across
melbourne's,
north
and
west
believe
that
there
was
strong
alignment
were
around
a
city
deal
that
would
focus
on
the
future
economy.
It
needs
to
be
recognized
that
more
people
leave
melbourne's
west.
They
commute
to
get
work
than
any
other
region
of
melbourne
or
victoria.
B
That's
a
really
big
challenge.
It
means
that
lots
and
lots
of
people
are
working
in
melbourne's,
west
and
lots
of
people
have
skills
in
melbourne's
western
experience,
but
there's
not
enough
local
jobs
in
our
region
to
basically
cater
for
the
population.
That's
here
today
and
the
population
that
is
growing
over
the
next
20
years.
B
In
order
for
people
to
work
and
for
people
to
invest
in
organizations
to
invest
in
melbourne's
west,
you
need
to
have
good
transport
and
connectivity.
You
need
to
not
just
be
able
to
move
people
from
sunshine
to
the
cbd.
You
need
to
be
able
to
move
them
around
melbourne
in
multiple
modes
of
transport.
B
Yes,
the
airport
rail
link
is
really
critical,
but
that's
why
suburban
rail
link
and
others
other
investments
are
really
important
as
well
health
and
well-being,
and
also
livability
things
such
as
housing
as
well.
The
rationale
for
investment
in
this
area
is
really
about
jobs
and
growing
300
000
jobs
to
match
population
growth.
B
Our
focus
here
is
really
around
making
sunshine
whereby
footscray
and
melton
our
economic
beating
hearts
of
melbourne's
west.
They
are
the
precincts
that
we
want
to
grow
and
we've
listed
both
transformational
and
enabling
projects
that
will
bring
those
economic
precincts
to
life
next
slide
and
I'm
conscious
of
time.
B
Some
of
the
big
transformational
projects
that
we're
pushing
in
in
melbourne's
west
are
already
happening
or
are
in
in
this
in
stages
of
going
to
happen.
But
westgate
tunnel
notwithstanding
its
challenges,
will
be
a
vital
second
river
crossing
very
important
for
the
freight
industry
that
will
grow
jobs.
Melbourne
airport
rail
link,
we're
building
the
biggest
hospital
in
the
state
in
footscray,
and
recently
we
also
were
pushing
and
were
successful
in
getting
another
hospital
to
be
built
for
melton.
There
are
a
number
of
other
projects
there
on
the
transformational
list.
B
B
There
is
a
need
to
significantly
boost
jobs
in
the
local
area,
but
also
address
the
social
disadvantage,
diversify
housing
stock
and
address
livability
gaps
such
as
open
space
and
recreation.
The
city
deal
proposal
priorities
for
sunshine.
Beyond
the
rail
we
did
put
st
alban's
health
and
wellbeing
hub.
We
see
the
strong
benefit
of
that
for
the
community.
We
want
to
create
a
jobs
institute
in
brimbank
and
we
want
to
create
a
very
significant
regional
sports
facility
as
well.
B
Now
there
are
many
other
things
that
we
could
put
in
a
city
deal,
but
we've
got
to
prioritize
and
spread
the
love
across
melbourne's
western
north
next
slide
just
a
couple
to
go.
That's
a
map,
essentially
where
all
of
the
projects
are
under
our
report.
Next
slide
goes
to
the
media.
In
terms
of
the
launch
on
the
day
when
we
release
this
front
page
double
page
spread
lots
of
interest
in
melbourne's
media
about
the
growth
and
opportunities
in
melbourne's
west.
B
B
One
in
three
victorians
will
live
in
melbourne's,
north
and
west,
and
our
area
is
expected
to
grow
to
be
about
this
bigger
than
south
australia
over
the
next
20
years,
with
one
million
extra
residents.
That's
why
we
need
300,
000
extra
jobs,
just
finally,
the
budget,
good
outcomes
in
the
budget
and
there's
no
doubt
that
our
city
deal
plan
is
already
being
recognized
for
including
some
important
projects.
B
I
think
that,
as
lindley
said,
what
you've
got
is
setting
the
foundations
for
covert
recovery,
but
some
regional
outcomes
of
significance
for
melbourne's
west
that
come
through,
particularly
from
the
state
funding
for
land
acquisition
and
early
works,
been
for
a
new
hospital
in
melton.
The
redevelopment
expansion
of
the
whitten
overland
in
footscray
worth
about
60
million
richard
ponsford
from
melbourne
melbourne
west
tourism
will
be
very
happy
about
the
expansion
of
the
werebe
open
range
zoo.
B
Moving
the
elephants
from
parkfield
down
to
whereby
it
will
generate
new
jobs
and
economic
opportunity,
there's
a
major
new
justice
precinct
coming
in
in
werribee,
almost
200
million
for
that
first
stage
of
where
it
be
western
rail
plan
fast
rail
to
geelong
that'll,
go
all
the
way
through
the
west
and
create
almost
3
000
jobs,
52
new
mental
health
beds
and
I'm
sure
emma
king
will
talk
about
the
social
housing
dwellings
and
bring
bank
and
marijuana
priority
areas
out
in
our
part
of
the
world.
It's
an
outstanding
budget
for
melbourne's
west.
B
Just
the
final
slide
is
our
next
step.
We're
daring
to
be
great
at
one
metre-
and
I
know
brim
bank
is
as
well.
Our
time
has
come
and
we've
waited
a
long
time,
and
sometimes
it
does
take
20
years
to
be
an
overnight
sensation.
But
it's
our
time
now
and
we're
daring
to
be
great
and
think
big.