Leader of The Nationals in the Senate, Ron Boswell, said today that local Councils in Central Queensland would receive a 'double whammy' Roads to Recovery payment, with an extra allocation of funds to be delivered for upgrading local government roads before the end of June this year.      "This is a huge boost for local Councils in Central Queensland, effectively doubling the amount of money available in the current financial year for fixing local roads through the Coalition's Roads to Recovery program," Senator Boswell said.   "For the residents of Capricornia, covering all or part of 11 Local Government areas in Central Queensland, it means a total extra injection for local roads of $4.3 million."   "Residents of all these North Queensland Council areas can look forward to travelling on improved, safer local roads as a result of better management of the economy by a Coalition Government that has now fully Cpaid off Labor's debt of $96 billion."  

Local Government Authority           2006/07 R2R $       Supplementary R2R $ Banana Shire Council                                  964,765                      964,765 Belyando Shire Council                                535,737                      535,737 Bowen Shire Council                                    413,097                      413,097 Broadsound Shire Council                           328,723                      328,723 Duaringa Shire Council                                378,152                      378,152 Fitzroy Shire Council                                    414,409                      414,409 Livingstone Shire Council                            536,654                      536,654 Mount Morgan Shire Council                       64,952                        64,952 Nebo Shire Council                                      146,781                      146,781 Rockhampton City Council                          499,837                      499,837 Woorabinda Aboriginal Shire Council        27,380                        27,380 Total                                                               $4,310,487                $4,310,487

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