$1.8 billion
New Measures Supporting
Regional South Australia
$656.3 million from 2025-26 to deliver upgrades between the Swanport Bridge on the Princes Highway and Truro on the Sturt Highway.
$109.7 million over four years to support River Murray environmental flows, improve basin health, increase coverage of metering telemetry and modernise planning and water delivery processes.
$55.4 million over five years to support farmers affected by drought. This is in addition to the $18 million in initial assistance announced in November 2024.
$45 million in 2025-26 to continue emergency fruit fly response activities following further outbreaks.
$29.6 million over three years for the expansion of the successful Police Security Officer model into regional areas.
$12 million in 2025-26 to continue delivering property and tenancy management services for selected remote Aboriginal communities.
$11.8 million over five years for costs associated with Tomato brown rugose fruit virus, High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza responses and Electric Ant Eradication Program.
$11.1 million in 2024-25 for the extension of CFS aerial firefighting aircraft availability in line with bushfire risk and costs associated with significant fire events.
$10 million over two years to deliver additional road safety maintenance across regional South Australia.
$7.5 million over three years towards regional road safety infrastructure upgrades.
$5.9 million over four years to improve training for CFS volunteers responding to structural fires.
$3.9 million over three years for essential upgrades to regional arts centres in Whyalla, Port Pirie, Mount Gambier and Renmark.
$3.4 million over four years for security enhancements across regional prisons.
$3 million in 2024-25 to support South Australian dairy farmers impacted by the collapse of Beston Global Food group.
$2.8 million over four years to improve bushfire risk mapping based on automated modelling of the likely bushfire impacts.
$2.5 million over four years to continue return to country and support services in Coober Pedy and Whyalla to support the safety and wellbeing of remote Aboriginal visitors.
$1.7 million over three years to extend the appointment of a Commissioner for the River Murray in South Australia.
$1.6 million in 2024-25 to support the Remote Area Energy Supply scheme.
$1.4 million over three years to further engage the community and help change unsafe behaviours on the road.
$1 million over four years for the ongoing replacement of remotely piloted aircraft (drones) used by the SES for reconnaissance, intelligence and hazard assessment.
$859 000 over three years for development assessment activity associated with changes to the statewide bushfire hazard overlay code amendment.
$605 000 over four years to support business owners through the small business profitability and growth program.
$345 000 over three years to support the state’s Volunteer Marine Rescue associations in providing their rescue capability.
$45 million over three years to support the delivery of the new Mount Barker Hospital, which will provide 102 beds, and include mental health, rehabilitation, maternity, palliative care, and surgical services.
$12.5 million over five years to transition the current Mount Barker On-Demand (Keoride) trial service into a permanent Adelaide Metro service, and to purchase new buses and undertake associated infrastructure upgrades.
$633 000 over four years for priority projects at Hewett and Two Wells primary schools.
TWO WELLS POLICE STATION
The construction of a new police station in Two Wells.
$2.4 billion from 2024-25 to secure the long-term future of the Whyalla steelworks and support the Whyalla community. $1.2 billion is budgeted over six years from 2024-25 including state funding for the support package and the components of Commonwealth funding that flow through the state.
$12.1 million over four years for Whyalla transformation, turbine divestment and hydrogen industry development.
$15 million over two years to upgrade the Port Augusta wharf to allow public access and amenity for recreational purposes.
$4.3 million in 2025-26 to upgrade the existing heavy vehicle rest area at Arcoona and construct a new rest area at Pimba on the Stuart Highway.
$4 million in 2024-25 for the acquisition of the remainder of the Nilpena Station pastoral lease.
$1.8 million in 2025-26 to undertake remediation works within the Innamincka Regional Reserve following damage incurred as a result of ex-tropical Cyclone Kirrily.
$1.8 million in 2025-26 to continue to reduce public safety risk arising from the Leigh Creek Coalfield site through the management of legacy environmental challenges.
$994 000 over five years to the Outback Communities Authority to support improved public facilities and community services in outback communities.
$80 million over five years for safety improvement works along Main South Road between Myponga and Yankalilla, including new overtaking lanes and road widening.
$8 million over three years to support aged care infrastructure upgrades at Charla Lodge Bordertown Memorial Hospital.
$2.4 million over four years for critical safety interventions in the south east drainage network.
$1.4 million over two years to set up and operate an additional 19 transition beds at Mount Gambier Prison to provide immediate additional prisoner capacity.
$17 million over three years to improve wetland habitat across the Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth.
$581 000 over two years to minimise lead exposure and increase lead aware behaviours in the Port Pirie community.