The Australian Local Government Association (ALGA) has released its 2025 federal election funding priorities.
Councils are calling on the next federal government to put communities first by providing:
- $1.1 billion per year for enabling infrastructure to unlock housing supply
- $500 million per year for community infrastructure
- $600 million per year for safer local roads
- $900 million per year for increased local government emergency management capability and capacity
- $400 million per year for climate adaptation
ALGA said that these new funding programs should be distributed across all councils, on a formula-basis, similar to the way Financial Assistance Grants or Roads to Recovery funding have been provided for many years.
This would support councils to deliver local-place based solutions to the challenges the nation is facing in affordable housing, road safety, natural disasters and climate change.
It would also ensure that every community would benefit, including smaller councils that often miss out on competitive federal funding programs.
ALGA said that local government needs certainty of funding to deliver national priorities through local solutions.
For more information, visit www.putourcommunitiesfirst.com.au
