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Latest news: ACT Budget

ACT Budget: Environment and water

To protect Canberra’s environment and waterways, the ACT Budget has allocated an additional $13 million over four years.

ACT Budget: Events and tourism

In tomorrow’s Budget, the ACT Government will invest around $5.1 million in the events and tourism industry.

ACT’s biggest investment in public school infrastructure

A second college for Gungahlin is at the centre of the biggest ever infrastructure investment in ACT public schools.

ACT Budget: $43.6 million for frontline health services

The ACT Government has announced it will inject $43.6 million into frontline health services in next week's Budget.

Last-minute funding for ACT Drug and Alcohol Court

The ACT Government has budgeted $8.4 million to expand the Drug and Alcohol Court’s capacity - one week before service agreements ended.

ACT Government’s Budget aims to tackle housing crisis

Next week’s ACT Budget will include $345 million to fund build-to-rent properties; grow, renew, and repair public housing; and release land.

ACT Budget: Immediate relief for homeless

$20 million for homeless services will provide “immediate relief and support, until new housing can be built, the ACT Government announced.

More investment in ACT health, but will it be a ‘triple shield’?

The ACT has budgeted more than $200 million over four years to support health workers, provide more services, and better resource the system.

‘Largest investment’ in ACT police, but police are needed now

In the upcoming ACT Budget, the ACT government will spend $107 million to recruit 126 ACT Policing personnel over the next five years.

ACT Budget: More funding for National Multicultural Festival

In further support of the much-loved Multicultural Festival, the ACT Government will invest an extra $3.3 million over the next two years.

ACT Budget: $26 million for active travel

The ACT Government will invest more than $26 million in active travel in the 2023–24 Budget to encourage more people to ride and walk.

ACT Budget: $28 million for mental health

The ACT Government will spend $28 million on mental health in the 2023-24 Budget to be published later this month.

ACT Budget: Parks and city infrastructure

The ACT Government today announced the Budget would spend more than $98 million on parks, public spaces, and recreational infrastructure.

Government urged to prioritise local business in next ACT budget

The ACT’s peak business group has called on the ACT government to invest in major infrastructure projects and to cut red tape to deliver economic benefits ahead of the next ACT Budget.

ACT mid-year Budget Review: Economy is robust, Barr says

The ACT’s economy is robust and improving, with a deficit of $461.5 million in 2022 23, Chief Minister Andrew Barr announced.

ACT Budget passes Assembly: Chief Minister’s view

The ACT Budget passed the Legislative Assembly today. Chief Minister Andrew Barr said it provides record investment in public healthcare.

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