Ian Goodenough (Moore, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I'm pleased to inform the House that, as the result of strong and effective advocacy, local government authorities in my electorate will receive a combined $16.5 million in federal financial assistance grants for 2024-25, an increase of $387,917 over the previous financial year. The City of Joondalup will receive approximately $7.2 million whilst the City of Stirling will receive $9.3 million. This represents increases of one per cent and 3.6 per cent respectively over the 2023-24 grants.

The financial assistance grants consist of two components: a general purpose component which is distributed between states and territories according to population on a per capita basis, and a local road component which is distributed between the states and territories according to fixed historical shares. Both components of the grants are untied in the hands of local government, allowing councils to spend the grants according to local priorities. These federal grants help subsidise the cost to ratepayers of providing essential community services and maintaining the local road network.