Health:

$96,000,000 towards $110 million expansion of Port Macquarie Hospital

$40,000,000 towards an $80 million expansion of Kempsey District Hospital

$15,000,000 Dentistry teaching chairs at Taree, Port Macquarie and Kempsey (CSU)

$7,000,000 Port Macquarie GP Super Clinic

$4,800,000 Second linear accelerator to treat cancer patients

$2,300,000 CCA Local Aged Care Services

$2,000,000 Eight-bed Geriatric Evaluation and Management (GEM) Unit at PMBH

$1,500,000 towards the expansion of Port Macquarie Private Hospital

$800,000 towards $1.6m Dementia Day Care Centre in Port Macquarie

$620,000 Community mental health support service based in Taree

$524,000 GP services- various places

$500,000 towards $1.4 million Lake Cathie Medical Centre

$380,000 Manning Aged Care

Medicare-eligible magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) service for the Manning

‘headspace’ Port Macquarie – a mental health service for young people

Education:

$85,300,000 For 164 BER projects at local schools

$20,000,000 towards construction of the Joint Health Education Facility in Port Macquarie involving the University of New South Wales, the University of Newcastle and the North Coast Institute of TAFE. The Mid-North Coast is now the first, and only, regional centre in Australia where medical students can complete their full six-year degree

$15,000,000 to establish a Charles Sturt University campus at Port Macquarie. The combined $35 million in federal education funding for the electorate of Lyne will deliver more than 1000 extra higher education places locally over the next five years

$13,000,000 North Coast TAFE e-learning hubs

$10,520,000 Trade Training Centres

$5,900,000 Food Soil Water Research Centre in Port Macquarie - a joint project with Charles Sturt University and Port-Macquarie Hastings Council

$5,500,000 Taree Medical Education Centre

$3,391,000 Newcastle University Accommodation (20-bed facility to be built near Port Macquarie Base Hospital)

$350,000 UNE expansion in Taree

$180,000 South Kempsey pre-school

$150,000 Mid-North Coast regional education strategy

$75,000 Greater Taree City Council to employ a higher education coordinator

$75,000 Port Macquarie-Hastings Council to employ a higher education coordinator

$50,000 U3A at Port Macquarie towards campus building works

$45,000 to Gloucester High School P & C for the purchase of a school bus

$4,585 Port Mac-Hastings U3A-Teaching aids

Roads & Infrastructure:

$618,000,000 100 per cent federally funded – Kempsey By-Pass

$67,000,000 Herons Creek to Stills Road Pacific Highway upgrade

$35,000,000 start of works on the Kempsey to Port Macquarie Pacific Hwy upgrade

$25,000,000 Airports Plan

$17,600,000 Bucketts Way

$14,300,000 Total Roads to Recovery allocations to Lyne since 2010

$12,700,000 Manning Roads and Bridge Package

$10,000,000 towards $38.5 million Northern Gateway Regional Transport Hub (heavy vehicle freight interchange) at Cundletown. In partnership with Greater Taree City Council and private investors

$2,447,150 upgrade black spots including a section of the Pacific Highway at Purfleet, a section of the Pacific Highway at Possum Brush, a section of the Pacific Highway from Stills Road to Oxley Highway at Port Macquarie and a section of Crescent Head Road at Crescent Head

$1,651,358 Port Macquarie-Hastings Council for 2013/14 under the Roads to Recover Program

$1,172,441 Greater Taree City Council for 2013/14 under the Roads to Recovery Program

$407,602 Gloucester Shire Council for 2013/14 under the Roads to Recovery Program

Employment & Jobs:

$2,000,000 Industry Vocational Training and Education programs throughout the region.

$1,061,807 Local Employment Coordinator Flexible Funding Pool on Mid North Coast PEA projects to support local employment and training.

$777,400 National Workforce Development Fund for Mid North Coast Aged Care service providers.

$249,000 DEEWR Employer Broker Panel project ($126,500) to develop, establish and support significant growth in the Aged and Community Care sectors on the Mid North Coast. Similar funding and support was also secured for the local manufacturing sector ($122,500).

Lobbied for priority employment status to be extended to the Lyne electorate, which means extra funding and support for local jobs growth. Lyne’s unemployment rate has now fallen to 5.53 per cent and the North Coast now has the third strongest jobs growth figures in Australia. By contrast, the local jobless rate was 2.7 per cent higher than the national rate back in September 2008. Some communities had unemployment rates of almost 10 per cent, which had been accepted by the major political parties for decades.

Helped establish the Manning, Hastings and Macleay Education and Skills forums

Environment:

$6,190,000 Mid-Coast Water- various projects including the reuse of treated effluent to irrigate the Harrington Waters Golf Club

$2,000,000 Cattai wetlands restoration at Coopernook

$1,000,000 Lake Innes works

$350,000 PMHC-water treatment programs

$134,440 Natural resources

$100,000 Manning Landcare Coordinators Management Committee

$100,000 Macleay Landcare group

$30,000 Old Bar Sand Replenishment Group’s study on offshore reef to mitigate heavy sand erosion at Old Bar.

$19,770 Tacking Point Lighthouse upgrade

Emissions Trading Scheme, as promised at 2 local elections, now up and running

A land and biodiversity package attached to ETS, with a range of local benefits

Sport and Recreation:

Saltwater Freshwater Festival in Port Macquarie in 2011, in Taree in 2013, and in Kempsey in 2014

$2,800,000 Port Macquarie Sports Stadium

$2,700,000 Wauchope Bonny Hills Surf Club

$2,470,000 Taree Recreation Centre upgrade

$2,200,000 Crescent Head Surf Life Saving Club

$1,800,000 Port Macquarie sports facilities, including hockey field, at Wayne Richards Park

$566,000 Health and Fitness-Healthy communities grant

$506,000 Regional and Local Community Infrastructure Program which has funded $28,500 for lights at Vince Inmon sports field in Laurieton, $70,500 for boat and jetty pontoon at McInherney Park, $118,000 for improvements to Rotary Park, Port Macquarie, and $289,000 for stage 2 of the Port Macquarie Skate Park

$500,000 Community park, South Kempsey Project

$434,000 Former Taree pool site redevelopment and fo Wingham Town Enhancement Project

$311,000 North Haven walkway/cycleway

$200,000 Netball clubhouse Port Macquarie

$150,000 Upgrade of Johnny Martin Oval in Taree

$120,000 Old Bar playing fields upgrade

$102,000 Town Green playground

$93,000 Gloucester Community infrastructure grant- Upgrades to the Farley Gates Playground and ‘The Meeting Place’ and the establishment of a ‘model creek ecosystem’ at Billabong Native Garden.

$90,000 Old Taree pool site landscaping

$70,000 Taree Motorcycle Club upgrade

$65,000 Norrie Reserve Kendall, toilet and BBQ

$63,000 Camden Haven Surf club lift and disability access

$55,000 Lake Cathie disability access to toilet

$50,000 Crowdy Head Surf Life Saving Club

$50,000 Comboyne tennis courts

$50,000 Taree cycleway plan

$50,000 Taree Sporting Stadium upgrade

$50,000 Manning Entertainment Centre safety upgrade

$50,000 Manning Entertainment Centre refurbishment

$47,500 Black Head Surf Life Saving Club

$41,000 Beechwood School of Arts- accessible toilets

$35,000 Manning Regional Art Gallery power upgrade

$35,000 Manning Regional Art Gallery renovation

$30,000 Crescent Head pool free-standing undercover area

$30,000 Henry Kendall statue and trees

$30,000 Wingham Sporting Complex grandstand upgrade

$30,000 Manning aquatic and leisure centre upgrade

$25,000 Cundletown Soccer Club to upgrade facilities

$25,000 Long Flat tennis courts

$25,000 Fotheringham Park gateway and garden

$25,000 Johns River Playground

$25,000 Cedar Party Creek Reserve Wingham

$20,000 Taree Midnight Basketball

$20,000 Manning Entertainment Centre hearing loop upgrade

$20,000 Kendall Reserve (Cundletown)

$16,000 Coopernook foreshore recreation facilities

$15,000 North Haven Beach disability access ramp

$15,000 Taree croquet club sewer upgrade

$10,000 Leo Carney Reserve (Krambach) upgrade

$9,000 Hallidays Point Croquet Club

Community:

$1,700,000 11 organisations from Gloucester to Wauchope sharing funding for emergency relief services.

$1,200,000 Taree foreshore

$1,200,000 Valley Industries in Taree

$1,000,000 $1m towards $2 million operations and training centre for Surf Life Saving NSW in Port Macquarie’s Central Road.

$1,000,000 Boom gate at Killawarra

$1,000,000 Port Macquarie foreshore

$600,000 towards $930,000 Mid-North Coast Community Legal

$543,000 Local family support to run programs. St Agnes (PM) Manning Support Services (Taree)

$310,000 Willing and Able Foundation

$308,000 Lincoln Brickworks

$126,000 Gloucester Sale Yards upgrade

$103,000 Tacking Point Lighthouse coastal walkway

$102,000 Rocks Ferry Reserve upgrade

$92,000 Uniting Church Red Dove NRCP Cundletown Centre Based Day Respite

$90,000 Wingham Town Hall roof renovation

$81,400 Gloucester homework centre

$75,000 Tinonee Community Hall upgrade

$53,000 Wingham Men’s Shed

$50,000 Wingham Scouts hall upgrade

$40,000 Harrington pathway

$30,000 Centenary of Rail celebrations on the Mid North Coast

$25,000 Wingham Cemetery upgrade

$20,000 Wauchope youth program in 2012

$20,000 Friday Night Youth Program Wauchope 2013

$20,000 Kanangra Drive footpath upgrade

$20,000 Wingham CBD enhancement

$20,000 Cuddlepie Centre roof enhancement

$15,749 Camden Haven Meals on Wheels

$12,000 Albert Street amenities upgrade

$4,000 Gloucester memorial

$4,000 Crescent Head Lions

$3,266 Marine Rescue Port Macquarie for new IT equipment

Helped retain the former ATC building in Taree as a community asset by lobbying for its transfer from the federal government to Greater Taree City Council.

NBN fibre to premises in Taree and Wingham; fixed wireless and satellite options in 66 other local communities. Macleay Valley included in 3 year fibre rollout plan

Total: $1,176,246,468.18

*This is not a complete list. Current as at 24/06/2013 - as provided by Mr Oakeshott's office.