Fiona Nash (NSW, National Party, Deputy Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

One of the new additions to this program has been the Community Investment Fund. What that will do is across three areas: local events and activities, strategic planning and leadership capability. It will allow local communities to determine those activities or projects that will allow them to strengthen and build; it will allow them to, in a very positive way, add to the ability to provide infrastructure projects. Those are things that I know our local communities need flexibility in providing. We see that local leaders drive our local communities, and this particular community investment stream is going to give those local leaders in those communities the ability to identify things in areas such as tourism expansion, which was not available before, to look at how they can drive their future to be stronger in the regions.