Vince Connelly (Stirling, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Stirling city centre in my electorate has been identified as a strategic metropolitan centre. Over the past 10 years, a consolidated vision for the Stirling city centre has been compiled, which will provide the capacity for an estimated 56,000 jobs and 25,000 residents.

Last week marked a significant milestone in the development of Stirling as Perth's second CBD—the turning of the sod at Stephenson Avenue. This $130 billion project, jointly funded by the Morrison and WA governments, will increase freight efficiency, improve road safety, reduce business costs and ensure local businesses are able to get their goods to market more quickly, and this project will see the establishment of a new link between Scarborough Beach Road and Mitchell Freeway. Importantly, given high unemployment in Western Australia, it will support 800 jobs.

I thank the Morrison government for its commitment to developing Stirling into a thriving second CBD, and I congratulate the City of Stirling under the leadership of Mayor Mark Irwin and Deputy Mayor Bianca Sandri for their strong advocacy and their willingness to partner, to work together, across all three levels of government to create an even more vibrant community in Stirling.