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State budget: Health, education big winners

10 May, 2010 10:14 AM
EDUCATION, health - including mental health - and freeway noise walls are among Monash's big-ticket items funded in the state government budget.

Under the 2010-11 budget, released last Tuesday:

■MonashLink Community Health Service's Glen Waverley branch will get a $9.1million building redevelopment.

■Monash Children's was allocated $10.9 million for 10 inpatient beds, five paediatric intensive-care beds and four neonatal intensive-care beds. The funding will help Southern Health cope with growing demand for its children's services.

■Holmesglen Institute of TAFE will get $19million over two years towards the construction and maintenance of a new international centre. The money will also fund more teaching facilities and provide more student support services.

■Noise walls worth $5.7million will be constructed along two sections of the Monash Freeway, from Huntingdale Road to Stanley Avenue, both inbound and outbound, and outbound from Stephensons Road to Forster Road.

■Tandana Place, Victoria's only youth-specific drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre, which is based in Mt Waverley, will receive $100,000 to operate for another year while permanent funding is sought.

■Essex Heights Primary School will receive $6million to rebuild most of the school over an 18-month period starting in 2011.

■Monash University will receive $2.5million over four years to offer 70 more mental health graduate diplomas for teaching professions.

The Monash police service area is also likely to receive more police as part of a state government plan to recruit and deploy 1966 more frontline police.

Mt Waverley MP Maxine Morand said, as a former health professional, she was proud of the record investment the government continued to make in the health system.

Treasurer John Lenders said the government's economic management meant Victoria was leading the worldwide recovery from the global financial crisis.

"Our budget builds for the future as this government sets about the hard work of delivering on our plans to give Victorians job security, the best hospitals and schools, a safer state and a secure water supply, as well as transforming our transport network."

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