May 10, 2021 | Latest News
Federal Member for Gippsland Darren Chester has welcomed the announcement of $10 million for a much needed upgrade of Mallacoota-Genoa Road in the Budget. Mr Chester has campaigned for funding to improve the main access road that links Mallacoota to the Princes...
May 5, 2021 | Building Community Infrastructure, Latest News
The Federal Government will provide $1.5 million to support a major upgrade of the Mallacoota streetscape, as the town recovers from last summer’s bushfires. Local MP Darren Chester has secured the funding under the Regional Recovery Partnership program which was...
Feb 5, 2021 | Latest News, Mobile Phone and Internet Coverage
The NBN fixed line network in Mallacoota has now been rebuilt after sustaining severe damage during the bushfires of last summer. Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts, the Hon Paul Fletcher MP, said that NBN Co had been working hard...
Jan 15, 2021 | Latest News
Federal Member for Gippsland Darren Chester has nominated six strategic projects which should receive bushfire recovery funding as soon as possible to boost local jobs. Mr Chester said the long delays in announcing funding for regional economic recovery projects was...
Dec 7, 2020 | Latest News
Federal Member for Gippsland Darren Chester says he is stunned that State Government bureaucrats have rejected a plan to restore the Mallacoota Golf Course which was devastated by last summer’s bushfires. Mr Chester has supported a $1.8 million plan to revegetate and...