Michelle Landry (Capricornia, National Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I am pleased to inform the House that Isaac Regional Council in a remote part of Capricornia has been awarded a joint government grant to help cover the cost of a flood study for Moranbah. The council will be provided with a $67,500 grant under the joint Commonwealth and state National Partnership Agreement on Natural Disaster Resilience. The grant will cover 60 per cent of the cost of the $112,000 flood study for Moranbah to identify ways to reduce future risks and support disaster management activities in the coalmining town. A flood study will provide information on the modelling of the behaviour of local waterways in the shire and the impact on Moranbah. Meanwhile, I am pleased to inform the House that residents in six regions in Capricornia will benefit from six new macrocell mobile phone towers under round 2 of the Turnbull Joyce government's $213 million Mobile Blackspot Program. These include two new mobile phone towers at Bungundarra near Yeppoon and new towers at Stanage Bay Road in Livingstone shire, West Hill in the Camila district, the Gregory Development Road A in far northwestern Capricornia and the Bowen Development Road in the Collinsville district.