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❓ Hon Steve Martin requests a detailed breakdown of Commonwealth funding commitments for specific Main Roads projects in WA, following dissatisfaction with a previous, overly broad response. The Minister provides a reference to a publicly available document.

AnsweredQoN 671Legislative Council

Asked

14 October 2025

Member

Hon Steve Martin

Portfolio

Transport

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I refer to the Minister's answer to question on notice 453, which listed a range of transport projects and asked for the current total Commonwealth funding contribution committed for each of the projects, to which the Minister responded by identifying a single page in the Federal Budget which showed a total Commonwealth commitment for roads projects as a single line item, and I ask, as of the 2025-26 State Budget, what is the current total Commonwealth funding contribution that has been communicated to the State Government, committed for each of the individual Main Roads Asset Investment Program projects listed below: (a) Perth Entertainment and Sporting Precinct; (b) Brooking Channel Bridge Replacement; (c) Bunbury Outer Ring Road; (d) Bussel Highway Duplication State One and Stage Two; (e) Canning Bridge Bus Interchange; (f) Derby - Gibb River - Wyndham Improve Formation and Gravel; (g) Fiona Stanley Precinct - Carparks; (h) Great Eastern Highway - Coates Gully, Walgoolan to Southern Cross and Ghooli to Benari; (i) Great Northern Highway - Bindoon Bypass - Construct New Alignment; (j) Karratha to Tom Price - Manuwarra Red Dog Highway; (k) Mandurah Estuary Bridge Duplication; (l) Mitchell Freeway - Stephenson Avenue; (m) Nicholson Road and Garden Street Grade Separation Planning and Construction; (n) Pinjarra Heavy Haulage Deviation - Stage One and Stage Two; (o) Queen Victoria Street - Fremantle Traffic Bridge (Swan River Crossings) - Construct New Bridge; (p) Reid Highway - Altone Rd and Daviot Road / Drumpellier Drive Grade Separations; (q) Regional Road Safety Program - Road Safety Program; (r) Reid Highway - West Swan and Reid Highway Interchange; (s) Reseal Program - Capitalisation of Reseal Program; (t) Road Safety Commission - Metropolitan Intersections Crash Program; (u) Road Safety Commission - Regional Road Safety Improvements; (v) Roe Highway - Great Eastern Highway Bypass Including Abernethy Road; (w) Safer Roads and Bridges Program; (x) Smart Freeways - Hodges Drive to Hepburn Avenue Widening Southbound; (y) Thomas and Anketell Roads Freight Upgrades - Stages One and Two Planning; (z) Thomas Road - Southwestern Highway to Tonkin Highway Dual Carriageway; (aa) Tonkin Highway Corridor Upgrades - North Ellenbrook Interchange; (bb) Tonkin Highway Corridor Upgrades - Tonkin Highway Gap, Grade Separations at Hale, Welshpool and Kelvin Roads; and Stage Three Extension; (cc) Transport and Major Infrastructure - Principal Shared Path Program; (dd) Albany Highway - Albany Ring Road (Completed); (ee) Armadale Road - Armadale Road and North Lake Road Flyover Bridge (Completed); (ff) Principal Shared Pathway Causeway Cyclist and Pedestrian Bridge (Completed); (gg) Leach Highway and Welshpool Road Grade Separated Interchange (Completed); (hh) New Fitzroy River Crossing Bridge and Associated Works (Completed); (ii) Northern Australia Roads and Beef Roads Program - Great Northern Highway - Ord River (Completed); (jj) Smart Freeways - Transforming Freeways - Mitchell Freeway Corridor (Completed); (kk) Reid Highway and Erindale Road Grade Separation (New Works); and (ll) Kwinana Freeway Widening (New Works)?

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Answered

18 November 2025

Responded by

Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Transport

Response time

9 days

(a-ll) The Commonwealth Committed funding is as per the Federation Funding Agreement schedule on Land Transport Infrastructure from 27 March 2025.
The Federation Funding Agreement schedule on Land Transport Infrastructure is available on the Federal Financial Relations website.
To assist the Member, I table this document.

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