CONSTITUENCY STATEMENTS
Mr GOSLING (Solomon) (09:51): There's a lot happening out at East Arm, between Darwin and Palmerston in the great electorate of Solomon. I dropped in to Global Resource Recovery NT recently. Their team is recycling industrial oil waste and turning it into higher grade fuels, including diesel, unleaded and jet fuel.
It's helping strengthen our fuel resilience while reducing costs for their customers, and it's exactly the kind of industry we want to see more of in Darwin, East Arm is already a natural logistics and industrial hub where road, rail, port, marine and defence infrastructure all come together, and there's plenty of room there to grow. The Albanese Labor government is backing that growth with significant investment in better freight connections through the new Tiger Brennan Drive and Berrimah Road overpass, and investment in the Navy's regional maintenance centre RMC North.
We're also building on the Multi-User Barge Ramp Facility alongside our $300 million NAIF investment in the Darwin ship lift. This is to support more industry and activity at East Arm. As the special envoy for defence and for northern Australia, I recently convened meetings in Darwin, including with high-ranking members of the ADF, DefenceNT from the NT government and National Intermodal, who we have funded to assist with the rollout of our $440 million federal government contribution towards establishing logistics hubs across the NT.
This coordination and collaboration is vital. The Albanese Labor government is focused on building the infrastructure that helps territory businesses to expand, unlock new economic opportunities, make us more competitive and create good, sustainable jobs for Territorians. We're also getting on with the job, delivering other infrastructure to build Darwin and Palmerston, which is the capital of the north: $10 million to upgrade maternity services at Royal Darwin Hospital; and new Darwin and Palmerston Medicare urgent care clinics, which are taking the load off Royal Darwin Hospital.
Our government has delivered record hospital funding for the Territory of $3.5 billion over five years, which represents an additional $741 million. But there's much more—$60 million of federal funding for a new 120-plus bed residential aged-care facility in Palmerston along with what we've already delivered, which is funding for a 26-bed, purpose-built, dementia-friendly facility in Darwin.
There are also more measures to help Territorians get into their first home, including final mile infrastructure for water, sewer, power and road connections to unlock more homes for Territorians.