State Budget 2019: What it means for your suburb

What’s the Budget got in store for your area? Our reporters have scoured the Budget papers to dig out what’s coming for the city, east, west, north and south of Adelaide.

Half a billion for a new Women’s and Children’s Hospital, hundreds of millions for roads, cash for our beaches and schools and a 5 per cent rise in most fees and penalties — but what does the State Budget mean for just down your road?

We’ve gone through the 2019 State Budget papers to see what’s been promised for your suburbs and regions.

The city

An Aboriginal Art and Cultures Gallery will open at Lot Fourteen, with the State Government allocating $150 million towards the project in its 2019/20 budget.

It would be the “national centrepiece” of contemporary and historical Aboriginal art.

Premier Steven Marshall said the gallery would be a unique experience for locals and tourists alike.

“Exhibiting Australia’s unique Aboriginal art and culture in a world-class gallery at Lot Fourteen will make Adelaide a destination of choice for national and international cultural tourists,” Mr Marshall said.

“The gallery will create employment opportunities for Aboriginal South Australians, and work with other institutions to shape the facility into a research centre for the teaching of indigenous culture, language and history.”

Artist impression of the national Aboriginal Art and Culture Gallery on Lot 14.

$2.6 million would also be spent upgrading the storage space that currently holds and protects the state’s collection of Aboriginal cultural material.

The final design and cost of the project is yet to be determined.

What else we can expect for the city

• $16.5 million towards an upgrade of SA Police’s Communication Centre on Carrington St to safeguard the building from a one-in-500-year earthquake.
• $18 million towards capital works at Adelaide High School, allowing the school to eventually increase enrolments by 1800 spaces.
• $150 million towards the Aboriginal Art and Cultures Gallery at Lot Fourteen.
• $3.8 million over three years to attract Adelaide Festival major performances.
• $10 million for infrastructure improvements to the Memorial Drive centre court precinct, including a new roof to cover the centre court area.
• $9.2 million over three years for asset renewal and replacement at the National Wine Centre.
• An additional $588,000 funding, over two years, to support the establishment of international defence companies at Lot Fourteen.
• $182 million towards the redevelopment of the Adelaide Festival Plaza.
• $11.7 million, over four years, for upgrades of the Adelaide Convention Centre, Adelaide Entertainment Centre and Coopers Stadium.
• $43.5 million to buy the Sir Samuel Way court building in Victoria Square
• $60 million, over three years, for construction of the International Centre for Food, Hospitality and Tourism Studies on Lot Fourteen, with the Commonwealth Government to contribute $30 million.
  

— Celeste Villani

East

Roadworks targeting congested intersections dominate spending initiatives in the eastern suburbs of Adelaide.

The main projects are:

$98 million to upgrade the intersection of Magill Road and Portrush Road

$61 million to upgrade the intersection of Cross Road and Fullarton Road

$35 million to upgrade the intersection of Glen Osmond Road and Fullarton Rd.

The Federal Government will provide half of the funds for all of the projects. Spending is spread across four years with peaks in 2021-22 for the first two and across three years for the third project, although the work is expected to be completed in shorter time frames.

Artist impression of upgrades proposed for Cross and Fullarton roads.

* The eastern suburbs also will benefit from upgrades to park ’n’ ride facilities on the O-Bahn.

Of $33.5 million allocated in the previous two budgets, some $30.4 million has yet to be spent. The former government’s plan to upgrade the Tea Tree Plaza site was deferred in favour of upgrading Paradise instead.

A North East Public Transport study now nearing conclusion will investigate more O-Bahn park ’n’ ride upgrades, including Golden Grove and Klemzig.

* The Adelaide City Deal, which is mostly centred on Lot Fourteen, includes $3 million for a visitor centre at Carrick Hill House in Springfield.

South

A fourth lane will be added to Flagstaff Rd, with the State Government allocating an extra $26.5 million towards the long-awaited project.

Flagstaff Rd is currently three lanes, with the middle lane, between Main South Rd and Bonneyview Rd, changing direction in peak hour to ease morning and afternoon congestion. Residents and community groups have campaigned for the extra lane for at least a decade saying the road is confusing and unsafe.

The fourth lane, to create a two-lane dual carriageway, brings the total cost of the project to $32.9 million.

The Government also allocated $35 million over three years towards the $60 million upgrade of the notorious intersection at Springbank, Daws and Goodwood roads.

That project, which also has $17.5 million funding from the Federal Government, is expected to be completed by 2021/22.

What the south can expect

— $8 million towards a new station on the Tonsley line, which will have improved lighting, security and accessibility. It comes alongside the previously announced $125 million to extend the line to Flinders Medical Centre and Flinders University.

— $35 million, over three years, towards a $60 million project to create a four-way intersection at Springbank, Daws, Goodwood roads.

Artist impression of the proposed upgrade to the Goodwood / Daws / Springbank roads intersection.

• A further $26.5 million towards the widening of Flagstaff Rd, making it a permanent two-lane dual carriageway. Total funding allocated to the project is $32.9 million.
• $2.5 million worth of infrastructure towards Glenthorne National Park in O’Halloran Hill.
• $26.1 million to start the $69.1 million Repatriation Health Precinct project.
• $305 million committed to duplicate Main South Rd from Seaford to Aldinga.
• $92 million to duplicate Victor Harbor Rd, between Main South Rd and McLaren Vale;

— Celeste Villani

West

Significant investment in saving Adelaide’s coastline will be well received by coastal residents who’ve built their lives around beaches that are rapidly disappearing.

Elsewhere in the west, however, spending is sparse.

The western suburbs have long suffered from the conundrum of being such safe Labor territory that the ALP feels no need to pork barrel and the Liberals see it as a waste of time.

Save for some school investment, this budget is status quo.

What the west can expect

• Seaview High will receive part of a $56.6 million package to improve buildings to help meet projected increased enrolment as a result of Year 7 moving to high school, as well as a slice of $22 million for new projects.
• Brighton Secondary will be given $13.8 million to boost its enrolment from 1600 to 1800.
• $48.4 million will be spent restoring and preserving metropolitan beaches, particularly West and Henley beaches. An extra 500,000 cubic metres of sand will be purchased for $20 million and $28.4 million put towards a sand pipeline from Semaphore to West Beach.

Sand carting at Semaphore, to be used at West Beach. Picture: AAP / Dean Martin

• An overpass or underpass will be built at the Brighton Rd level crossing in Hove for $171 million, which is currently closed for about 25 per cent of peak travel time.
• $810,000 will be allocated over the next two financial years to extend the Tiraapendi Wodli Port Adelaide Justice Reinvestment Project, which aims to reduce Aboriginal family violence and youth crime.

— Caleb Bond

North

School and transport upgrades are in store for the north, with secondary schools set to receive extra space under a $66 million plan to cope with increasing enrolments.

Six different high schools will receive between $10m and $12m for upgrades to make extra space.

Almost $38 million will be spent upgrading two busy road intersections at Salisbury and Gepps Cross while nearly $300 million will go to the electrification of the Adelaide-Gawler railway line.

What the north can expect

• $297 million to continue the electrification of the Adelaide-Gawler railway line
• $129 million for the completion of the $880 million Northern Connector
• $14.8 million for the upgrade of Golden Grove Rd
• $4.68 million to continue the Gawler East Link road project.
• $2 million to start the $19 million upgrade of the intersection of Main North Rd, McIntyre and Kings Rd
• $2 million to start the $19 million upgrade of the intersection of Grand Junction, Hampstead and Briens Rd
• $1.48 million towards $12m upgrade of Craigmore High School
• $1.6 million towards $10m upgrade of Gawler and District College
• $2.1 million towards $12m upgrade of Golden Grove High School
• $1.7 million towards $10m upgrade of Parafield Gardens High School
• $4 million towards $12m upgrade of Paralowie School
• $1.7 million towards $10m upgrade of Salisbury High School
• $12 million towards ongoing $58m expansion of Lyell McEwin Hospital emergency department
• $31.8 million towards $96.6m upgrade of Modbury Hospital

— Colin James