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FLASHBACK: South Burnett Mayor Brett Otto and Member for Maranoa David Littleproud were at the head of the queue at the Kingaroy Transformation Project’s official sod-turning ceremony in 2021 … the KTP was one of many local projects which received support from the Building Better Regions Fund<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

October 24, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

Member for Maranoa David Littleproud has slammed a Federal Government decision to axe Round 6 of the Building Better Regions Fund (BBRF).<\/p>\n

The news, to be confirmed in this week’s Budget, was announced by Regional Development Minister Catherine King\u00a0on Monday.<\/p>\n

Also scrapped has been the Community Development Grants (CDG) program.<\/p>\n

Nationals leader Mr Littleproud said the decisions were a devastating blow to regional and rural communities.<\/p>\n

\u201cLabor needs to tell our hard-working regional and rural communities why it\u2019s putting its city mates before regional and rural Australia,\u201d Mr Littleproud said.<\/p>\n

But Minister King said the two programs were being replaced.<\/strong><\/p>\n

She said Tuesday’s Budget would include $1 billion in funding over three years for two new programs: the Growing Regions Program and the regional Precincts and Partnerships Program.<\/p>\n

“The Growing Regions Program will provide new opportunities for regional local councils and not-for-profit organisations through an annual open, competitive grants process,” she said.<\/p>\n

“The regional Precincts and Partnerships Program will provide a strategic, nationally consistent mechanism for funding and co-ordinating larger-scale projects that transform a place, to benefit communities in regional cities and wider rural and regional Australia.”<\/p>\n

Minister King said the Australian National Audit Office had found that BBRF grants favoured National Party electorates and were not awarded on the basis of merit.<\/p>\n

But Mr Littleproud said it was hypocritical of Labor to accuse the Nationals of pork-barrelling “when we already know this Budget is all about helping the re-election campaign of (the) Victorian Premier”.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hardly startling that most of the money for a regional program went to Nationals-held seats. It\u2019s a regional fund and we are the party that represents regional Australia,” he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ms King said contracted projects under the CDG program would be honoured.<\/p>\n

A further 82 projects that date back to 2016 and that are yet to be contracted will have six months to finalise negotiations before the program ends.<\/p>\n

South Burnett projects previously supported by the Building Better Regions Fund include\u00a0the Kingaroy Transformation Project, Murgon’s fossil museum and cultural centre, the development of a South Burnett Agriculture Strategy, disability-friendly aged care units in Blackbutt, support for the Red Earth Community Foundation for workshops and to produce a Burnett Inland Futures Strategy, new toilets and showers at Goomeri Showgrounds, the Yarraman Finish Line Festival, upgrades at the Wondai Art Gallery, BaconFest and the Kilkivan Great Horse Ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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