Capital works by government priority
The Government’s $1.8 billion Capital Works Program for the four years to 2022‑23 helps deliver services across the entire range of government priorities.
The priorities classification identifies projects by their primary priority. However, most projects support multiple priorities. For example, the initative Delivering the SPIRE Centre at Canberra Hospital helps build a better city through enhanced public health facilities, with flow on benefits in more and better jobs, as well as better services through improved access to a modern health care system.
The Capital Works Program supports the Government’s priorities in the following areas:
- Better healthcare for a growing community ($367 million, or 20 per cent);
- More schools, better schools ($340 million, or 19 per cent);
- More services for our suburbs ($331 million, or 18 per cent);
- Keeping our growing city moving ($284 million, or 15 per cent);
- More support for families and inclusion ($214 million, or 12 per cent);
- More jobs for our growing city ($164 million, or 9 per cent) and;
- Better Government ($136 million, or 7 per cent).