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Victoria Budget 2020: Billions allocated to regional health, education and roads
The Victorian Government is spending more than $8 billion in this year’s Budget to help regional Victoria recover from the back-to-back crises of last summer’s bushfires and the pandemic.
Key points:
- The Budget aims to help country areas recover from the pandemic and bushfires
- Many initiatives are targeted at Geelong and the state’s south-west
- There is funding for health, education, roads and fixing mobile blackspots
The Budget includes $3.8 billion in regional road and rail upgrades, and country areas will share in $2.8 billion in health spending.
The state’s south-west has emerged as a big winner in the budget, benefitting from a range of measures aimed at helping areas hit hard by the pandemic.
The Budget includes $2 billion for the Geelong…
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