Senior residents in Hasluck and their families will benefit from significant aged care quality reforms today announced by the Turnbull Government.
At the heart of these reforms, aged care regulation, compliance and complaints handing will be brought together in a new and independent Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission.
The Coalition Government’s Solar Communities Program is set to benefit Hasluck with funding for local groups to install solar rooftop systems.
Gidgegannup Recreation Club will receive $10,000 for the installation of rooftop solar photovoltaic panels.
Darlington Sports and Recreation Association will receive $11,704.87 which is also for the installation of rooftop solar photovoltaic panels.
Kalamunda RSL Sub-Branch will receive $13,536.63 for the installation of rooftop solar photovoltaic panels and a battery storage system.
The Mundaring Arts Centre will receive $7,965.62 to install a 6.48kW Solar Photovoltaic Panel System.
Older Australians in Hasluck will benefit from the Turnbull Government’s 2017 Federal Budget with continued funding of $5.5 billion to enable people to stay in their own homes.
Federal Minister for Aged Care and Member for Hasluck, Ken Wyatt, said that he had worked to ensure that the Commonwealth Home Support Programme was continued for two years from 1 July 2018.
More Affordable Housing
“We are implementing sensible measures to make sure all Australians have affordable housing” said Mr Wyatt.
This budget includes measures to make more land available in areas well serviced by transport and jobs, crackdown on foreign investors who seek to exploit loopholes in our system and to ease the costs for young Australians looking to buy their first home.
More Money for Schools
Our needs based funding model for schools, endorsed by David Gonski, is all about fairness.
Schools in every sector in the community of Hasluck will be receiving significant increases in funding because of our needs-based funding model. This is great news for our 65 primary and secondary schools and their 23,564 students.
Delivering Tax Relief for Small Business
The Government are delivering Small and Medium Business Tax cuts, benefiting 3.2 million small and medium businesses that employ 6.5 million Australians. This will help the 14,522 Hasluck businesses with turnovers up to $50 million if they are incorporated, and up to $5 million if they are unincorporated, invest and employ more Australians.
A new schools funding estimator is set to help Hasluck parents, teachers, principals and school communities see exactly how they stand to benefit from the Turnbull Government’s new $18.6 billion needs-based schools funding plan.
The Hon Ken Wyatt MP, Federal Member for Hasluck said the new online estimator showed that schools across the local area would benefit from a funding increase of $128.6 million between 2017 and 2021.
The Hon Ken Wyatt MP, Federal Member for Hasluck, has highlighted the value of getting a flu vaccination through your local community pharmacist by getting his yearly shot at Maddington Chemmart Chemist.
Federal Member for Hasluck Mr Ken Wyatt said he was pleased to announce that funding of $847 017 has been granted to the City of Swan to enable them to perform upgrades to CCTV and lighting in the Midland CBD. In addition, a further $170 000 has been granted to the Shire of Kalamunda to enable them to install 12 more CCTV Cameras at 4 crime hotspots.
The Kalamunda Bowling Club has received a Federal Government grant to help with the construction and maintenance of its new state-of-the-art bowling green. The funding is part of the $45 million dollar Stronger Communities Program (SCP), set-up to help community, and not for profit groups, fund small capital works projects which will deliver social benefits.
