(As at December 2022)
Health
- New $60m emergency department and general ward at Sutherland Hospital (2019).
- New $81m eight operating theatres and two endoscopy suites at Sutherland Hospital (due 2023 and 2024).
- $7m for MRI at Sutherland Hospital (due 2023).
- New $10m car park at Sutherland Hospital (2014).
- New integrated health facility on Sutherland Hospital campus (2015).
- New Ambulance Superstation at Caringbah (2018).
- Major redevelopments of St George Hospital (completed: new emergency department, acute services building and birthing suite and additional parking; due mid-2020s: new integrated ambulatory care precinct, increasing inpatient bed capacity and enhanced outpatient and community-based services).
Public and active transport
- Upgrading peak hour capacity on T4 Illawarra line by up to 30%.
- All regular timetabled train services on T4 Illawarra line now air conditioned.
- New ferry wharves at Kurnell and La Perouse (construction starting 2023, subject to federal environmental approval).
- Shared off-road bike / pedestrian pathway (SCATL) – Sutherland to Kirrawee completed; Jackson Ave to Gannons Road construction starts early 2023; other sections funded; progressive completion by mid-2020s.
- Grants for shared bike / pedestrian pathways at Woolooware Bay, Prince Charles Parade, Tonkin Oval, Wanda – North Cronulla, Elouera Road and Kiora Road.
- Opal card rolled out at all stations on T4 Illawarra line.
- New steel canopies at 10 Sutherland Shire train stations.
- New bus route 985 providing 272 trips per week between Miranda and Cronulla via Caringbah and Woolooware Bay.
- Extra buses to Kurnell and Lilli Pilli.
Roads
- Construction of M6 motorway underground south to Kogarah (due 2025).
- Planning of M6 motorway Kogarah to Loftus ($50 million spent).
- More than $1.5m grant for widening of Captain Cook Drive to four lanes between Woolooware Road and Elouera Road.
- Replacement of Gannons Road underbridge and grant to council to widen road underneath to 4 lanes.
- Upgraded intersection at Kingsway / Gannons Road Caringbah (extra right turn lane for Kingsway into Gannons Road).
- Upgraded intersection at Kingsway / President Avenue Caringbah (extra right turn lane for Kingsway into President Avenue).
- Upgraded intersection of Gerrale Street / Elouera Road / Kingsway Cronulla (extra right turn lane for Elouera Road into Kingsway).
- Upgraded intersection at Acacia Road / President Avenue Kirrawee.
- Other upgrades along Princes Highway in Kirrawee and Gymea (in progress).
- Upgraded intersection at Gymea Bay Road / President Avenue Gymea.
- Upgraded intersection at Captain Cook Drive / The Boulevarde / Taren Point Road Caringbah (extending and duplicating right turn lane from Taren Point Road southbound into The Boulevarde).
- Upgraded intersection at Taren Point Road / Koonya Circuit (extending the right turn lane from Taren Point Road northbound into Koonya Circuit).
- Upgraded intersection at Taren Point Road / Alexander Avenue / Holt Road.
- Upgraded intersection at Port Hacking Road / Princes Highway Sylvania.
- Extended clearways on Taren Point Road and (between Sutherland and Blakehurst) Princes Highway.
- Extended parking restrictions on Kingsway between Willarong Road and Kareena Road Caringbah.
- Traffic lights at Kingsway / Woolooware Road.
- Crash barriers on Captain Cook Bridge.
- Pedestrian barriers at Kingsway Cronulla.
- Flashing lights at all schools in the Sutherland Shire.
Education
- Major upgrade of Cronulla High School – 10 new permanent learning spaces, a new canteen, new administration areas, upgraded student and staff amenities (construction commencing early 2023) and school hall extension (subject to tender).
- Air conditioning installation and upgrade at Caringbah, Kirrawee and Woolooware High Schools and Kurnell Public School.
- Lifts at Cronulla, Kirrawee and Woolooware High Schools; Gymea Bay Public School; and Jacaranda Preschool.
- Bathroom access upgrades at Cronulla, Kirrawee and Woolooware High Schools and Gymea Bay Public School.
- Walkways at Cronulla, Kirrawee and Woolooware High Schools and Burraneer Bay, Caringbah, Cronulla, Cronulla South, Gymea Bay, Laguna Street and Yowie Bay Public Schools.
- COLAs and outdoor shelters at Caringbah High School, Kirrawee High School; Caringbah North, Cronulla, Cronulla South, Kurnell and Woolooware Public Schools.
- Outdoor areas at Burraneer Bay, Caringbah, Cronulla, Grays Point, Kurnell, Laguna Street, Lilli Pilli, Woolooware and Yowie Bay Public Schools; Our Lady of Fatima Caringbah; OLMC Burraneer; St Francis De Sales School.
- Other projects including $60,000 to upgrade pedestrian footpaths at Our Lady of Fatima Caringbah, $50,000 for Cronulla South Public School library upgrade and $30,000 for Laguna Street Public School canteen.
- New LED lighting at most schools.
Environment and public spaces
(See also below under “Other”)
- 67km Great Southern Walk from Kurnell to Sublime Point – construction underway, scheduled finish 2024 (with more than $12m in upgrades already to Kamay and Royal coast tracks).
- New whale watching platform and associated amenities at Cape Solander – opened December 2022.
- New visitor centre at Kamay Botany Bay National Park – construction commencing 2023 (complementing public art installed 2020).
- $6.9 million for clifftop walk around Hungry Point, linking the Esplanade and Darook Park – construction commencing 2023.
- Around $850,000 of other funding for Hungry Point Reserve Cronulla upgrades for public opening, including new toilet block, picnic facilities, landscaping, additional lighting and signage.
- $46m upgrade to Cronulla Wastewater Treatment Plant.
- Sewerage upgrades across the Shire, including $3m for new valves and controllers at Kurnell.
- $4.5m in Sydney Water upgrades to the Cronulla Wastewater Pumping Station.
- All Cronulla ocean beaches rated very good (6 beaches – the top rating – “excellent … water quality and …suitable for swimming almost all of the time”) or good (Boat Harbour and [South] Cronulla) in 2021-22 State of the Beaches report.
- $100,000 for viewing platform at Cronulla Park.
Emergency services
- $2.4 million for upgrades of Cronulla, North Cronulla, Elouera and Wanda Surf Life Saving Clubs.
- New $800,000 “super boat” for Marine Rescue NSW Botany Port Hacking Unit at Cronulla.
- New fire tankers for Grays Point and Kurnell Rural Fire Service.
Sport and recreation
(See also above under “Emergency services” for surf life saving)
- $2.8 million for 5 Sports at Endeavour Sports High School – construction of a new accessible all-weather indoor sports centre and replacement of main playing field with multi-sport synthetic surface.
- Over $2.2 million in grants for wharves and boating at Tonkin Street, Bonna Point, Lugano Avenue Burraneer, Wally’s Wharf, Hospital Bay and Gunnamatta Bay.
- $700,000 grant for council’s new Marang Parklands hockey fields near Greenhills Beach.
- Largest off shore artificial reef in NSW, off Port Hacking.
- $110,000 for Gymea United FC hall extension.
- $350,000 for Cronulla Seagulls FC clubhouse upgrades.
Other
- New Service NSW one-stop shop at Westfield Miranda.
- $100,000 to renovate Cronulla Arts Theatre and extend foyer.
More train delays, more cancellations and more commuter pain on the way.
From Wednesday 15 January, more than 50 locations across the Sydney train network will be impacted by the NSW Labor Government’s ongoing industrial dispute with the rail unions.
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Hi Mark Speakman tomorrow and Thursday and Friday
Any RBTU members out there who want to have an honest chat about why the public is fed up? I’m ready—let’s hear it!
Remember how it was under your government? Bit rich for you to be criticising Labor when every public service went on strike under the libs because you don't respect essential workers
🏏Congratulations Pat Cummins and the entire Australian cricket team on regaining the Border-Gavaskar Trophy after a fantastic test series.
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Congratulations
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GoOd Morning, 😃 Congratulations, HaVe A GrEaT DaY! #Amazing_Work, #Great_Photo, #GreAt_LeAdeR #Great_Team
🥳Happy New Year everyone!
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Happy New Year may you and your family receive many blessings throughout 2025
Thank you Mark..all my best wishes to you and yours.
Have a great year Mark
Happy new year to you and your family Mark . Hope your all well .
Happy new year Mark x
Happy new year Mark.
Happy New Year!
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Happy New Year Mark to you and family.
Special Blessings to you and Caroline and family!!! Happy New Year!💕 Mark & Dolores GONSALVES!!!💕
Happy New Year to you and the family Mark.😊❤️
Happy new year to you and your family
Happy New year to you too Mark ! 💜
Happy New year Premier Mark Speakman
Happy New Year Mark Speakman
It is my opinion that politicians want us to believe that Australia is multicultural. This is a lie. Australia was created in 1901 when we became a Commonwealth under one Christian Almighty God. Our values, our morals and our laws are fundamentally based on Christian beliefs. However, our core values and morals are under threat as each politician tries to win votes from different religions. The current actions and economic policies of our political leaders are not creating a stronger Australian culture, only making it weaker. We are not multicultural, we are one culture: Australian.🇦🇺 Individuals from other cultures that are invited to live in Australia are welcome, and we respect their customs. Our politicians are trying to polarise and divide us by forcing us to believe in a lie, that we are multicultural. We need to preserve our unique culture. It is our responsibility to tell them we are but one culture: Australian.🇦🇺 For those of us who have been born here, we are one with Australia as our aboriginal brothers and sisters. We are not part of a two state solution that Labor has been fighting to impose on our nation, as they are trying to impose on Israel. My message to all politicians is clear, we are one nation: Australia.🇦🇺
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The world watches our amazing Sydney New Year’s Eve fireworks each year - but they wouldn’t happen without the teams of workers involved in the extraordinary preparation and logistics required today, tonight and for tomorrow’s cleanup, as well as our police, fire and rescue, ambulance and other frontline workers.
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Thank you 🙏
🤙🏼💚💛🇦🇺Advance Australia.
You the bastard. More worried about the world than represent your own citizens.
2024 has been a huge year for more of the NSW Liberals’ and Nationals’ major infrastructure projects.
Projects completed in 2024 and designed, funded and built by them included:
✅ Sydney Metro Chatswood to Sydenham
✅ Parramatta Light Rail
✅ Gateway motorway to Sydney Airport
✅ Stage 1 Liverpool Hospital
✅ Gregory Hills Public School
Projects in progress in 2024 included:
✅ Powerhouse Museum Parramatta
✅ Metro Sydenham to Bankstown
✅ M6 motorway stage 1
✅ John Hunter Health & Innovation Precinct
✅ Stage 2 Nepean Hospital
✅ Wentworth Point High School
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✅ Singleton Bypass
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Will the Minns Government actually start any infrastructure projects this term, or are they just perfecting the art of cutting ribbons? I’ll hold my breathe waiting!! You need to add - The Powerhouse Extension Castle Hill to your list.
And finally the new intercity trains are running to Newcastle too.
💈 The Premier should be a barber. When he’s not cutting budgets and cost of living initiatives, he’s cutting the ribbon on major infrastructure projects initiated by the former Lib/Nat Govt 💇♂️
All but 2 in Sydney
You Liberal Idiots have wasted so much of NSW taxpayers money on poor infustructure projects. A tram system that on goes 40 kph 😂🤣😅 A metro system of only 6 carriages, no toilets limited to 100 kph, and means changing 😂🤣😅😆 An intercity fleet to the wrong structure gauge 😂🤣😅 And ferry's not fit for service. Absolute fools. 😂🤣😅😆
Shame you didnt built the Rouse Hill hospital nsw libs promised .by pictures it shows all sydney works.nsw does exist but forgotton westbof great dividing range and north of newcastle and south of Sutherland.
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One of the great pleasures of leading the NSW Liberals in 2024 has been getting out and about meeting so many wonderful Australians in our vibrant multicultural communities.
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Go OL Mark Go 🙏❤️😎
GoOd EveNinG, 😃 Congratulations, HaVe A GrEaT DaY! #Amazing_Work, #Great_PhoToS, #GreAt_LeAdeR
When are you going to get out to the regional areas like moree
It is my opinion that politicians want us to believe that Australia is multicultural. This is a lie. Australia was created in 1901 when we became a Commonwealth under one god. Our values and morals and laws are based on the Christian religion. We are not multicultural, we are one culture: Australian. Individuals from other cultures that are invited to live in Australia are welcome, and we respect their customs. Our governments are trying to polarise and divide us by forcing us to believe in a lie, that we are multicultural. It is our responsibility to tell them we are but one culture: Australian. For those of us who have been born here, we are one with Australia as we are with our aboriginal brothers and sisters. We are not part of a two state solution that Labor has been fighting to impose on our nation, as they are trying to impose on Israel. My message to all politicians is clear, we are one nation: Australia.🇦🇺