Infrastructure WA has released its draft infrastructure study, Foundations for a Stronger Tomorrow, for public comment.
Premier, Mark McGowan said Foundations for a Stronger Tomorrow provided a whole-of-State infrastructure outlook to ensure that decision-making was based on robust and evidence-based planning.
“The draft Strategy addresses future challenges and opportunities, and provides recommendations to maximise the value of every dollar spent by the Government,” Mr McGowan said.
“It also helps provide businesses and industry with long-term planning clarity by supporting emerging local industries, focussing on climate change, leveraging and promoting our regions, and highlighting investment in training and education.”
He said pathways to jobs, projects and programs that aimed to improve services for Aboriginal communities, and essential social services for all Western Australians, were also included in the draft Strategy.
The Premier said there were 88 recommendations of which around 75 per cent were non-build recommendations.
“Some recommendations outline the potential next steps for key projects that require further investigation and develop a roadmap for future work already being implemented, including METRONET and Westport,” Mr McGowan said.
“State Government initiatives already under way are reinforced in some of the recommendations in the draft Strategy.”
The Premier said the eight-week consultation process for the draft Strategy had begun and would include more than 20 workshops and consultation sessions across the State to seek feedback on the recommendations.
“The Government will consider the final Strategy and provide a response to each of the recommendations as required by the legislation,” he said.
“This Strategy will help grow our great State as it continues to mature as a world-class destination, and a vibrant and attractive place in which to live, invest, study and visit,” Mr McGowan said.
The 19-page Foundations for a Stronger Tomorrow draft Strategy can be accessed at this PS News link.
