Roads to Home Purfleet

Purfleet reserve community is getting infrastructure upgrades to the tune of more tha $9.2 million.

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00:00 So the Road Saving Project is a NSW State Government program where we partner with local Aboriginal land councils

00:07 and upgrade the road, reserve and infrastructure in the communities.

00:13 What we're finding is in a lot of these communities the road infrastructure isn't quite up to standard.

00:19 So what we'll do is we'll go into communities, work really closely with these land councils

00:26 to upgrade the road reserves, the stormwater, the sewerage, drainage, electrical, where it's required.

00:34 And depending if the community chooses to vote we can either dedicate the assets to local council

00:39 or the LARWC can choose to hold on to those assets to maintain themselves.

00:43 The unique nature of the Roads to Home program is we work really closely with the LARWC

00:48 in delivering the project for community.

00:52 This is achieved through allowing the LARWC to decide what they choose to do with the funding

00:58 for the infrastructure throughout the community.

01:02 Through the program as well the LARWC can choose to offer training and employment opportunities

01:06 where they can actually gain meaningful employment through the contractor throughout the program

01:11 with a view to gain long-term employment after the program is completed.

01:16 We're grateful the Roads to Home crew to come in and give us more opportunities, give us training.

01:20 If we're good enough they'll keep us on here for the night, we can go and get the training

01:23 and go and do jobs somewhere else.

01:25 Drainage and that, they're blocks, so a lot of, some of their houses flood.

01:28 So the council said that we own the roads and we don't have the funding to fix the roads

01:32 so finally we do now and it's getting fixed.

01:35 And to stop the houses from getting flooded.

01:37 Oh well they got us, they did us training in, we did concreting, we did using a kit steer,

01:45 we was using all the heavy machineries, the rollers and stuff like that.

01:51 So yeah.

01:52 It's a good opportunity for your kids to sort of see,

01:54 are your kids to see yourself working in the community?

01:56 Yeah it is, yeah, it shows them willing to work with the community

01:59 and maybe in the future they can get jobs in the community and stuff like that.

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