{"id":1588,"date":"2013-08-29T05:06:39","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T05:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/2013\/08\/29\/chester-backs-national-stronger-regions-fund\/"},"modified":"2013-08-29T05:06:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T05:06:39","slug":"chester-backs-national-stronger-regions-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/chester-backs-national-stronger-regions-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"NATIONAL STRONGER REGIONS FUND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CHESTER BACKS NATIONAL STRONGER REGIONS FUND<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>August 29, 2013<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Federal Member for Gippsland Darren Chester has welcomed today\u2019s announcement by Leader of The Nationals Warren Truss that a future Coalition Government will deliver a $1 billion \u2018National Stronger Regions Fund\u2019 over five years.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chester said he had strongly advocated for a fund to drive regional growth and congratulated Mr Truss on his capacity to deliver on behalf of all regional communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Leader of The Nationals, Warren has campaigned strongly within the Coalition to secure this fund and it\u2019s a great win for regional Australia,\u201d Mr Chester said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the Coalition is elected into government, I look forward to working closely with Warren to gain maximum value for all regional communities under this program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the Member for Gippsland, I will be aiming to make sure that my community receives a fair share from the new fund.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">In addition to the National Stronger Regions Fund, the Coalition has also committed:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>* $300 million for a Bridges Renewal Program, equalling $600 million worth of investment;<\/p>\n<p>* $147 million investment in agriculture, including in R&amp;D, export measures, biosecurity, access to new technologies and chemicals and increased funding to support agricultural education;<\/p>\n<p>* $106 million for rural and regional health initiatives covering training, hospitals, allied health workers, cheaper medicines and bowel cancer screening; and<\/p>\n<p>* $100 million for mobile phone black spots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHESTER BACKS NATIONAL STRONGER REGIONS FUND August 29, 2013 Federal Member for Gippsland Darren Chester has welcomed today\u2019s announcement by Leader of The Nationals Warren Truss that a future Coalition Government will deliver a $1 billion \u2018National Stronger Regions Fund\u2019 over five years. Mr Chester said he had strongly advocated for a fund to drive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}