Mackay-Whitsunday

Regional delivery — Queensland Budget 2022-23

$596.4M
Capital program
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Tracked initiatives

Highlights

  • •$596.4M on infrastructure and capital works supporting around 2,000 jobs
  • •$186.6M for the Walkerston Bypass
  • •New Moranbah Hospital and Sarina Hospital
  • •$562.2M on health for Mackay services

Health & social services

Social housing

$31.5M investment

Capital works & projects

12 projects from the Regional Delivery Plan.

Health4 projects
Sarina Hospital (new greenfield site)$20.6M (2022-23, $31.5M total)
Bowen Hospital construction projects (incl. new CT scanner)$5.2M (2022-23, $20M total)
Proserpine Hospital refurbishment$5M (2022-23, $7.9M total)
Building Rural and Remote Health Program - Phase 2 (incl. Moranbah Hospital)$943.5M over 7 years (statewide)
Education1 project
Moranbah East State School$5.8M (2022-23, $6.2M total)
Transport3 projects
Walkerston Bypass$56.5M (2022-23, $186.6M total)
Mackay Ring Road (Stage One)$15M (2022-23, $497.4M total)
Bruce Highway (Proserpine - Bowen), Ten Mile Creek to Yeates Creek safety improvements$15M (2022-23, $44.1M total)
Infrastructure2 projects
Nebo secondary systems replacement (substation)$3.4M (2022-23, $31.5M total)
Strathmore Transformer Reinforcement$3.2M (2022-23, $24.3M total)
Environment1 project
Joint field management - Great Barrier Reef$19.2M (2022-23)
Economy1 project
Advance Queensland Industry Attraction Fund$18.1M (2022-23, $92M total)

Source: Regional Delivery Plan. Not all projects have published amounts.

Region-specific budget initiatives

Building Rural and Remote Health Program - Phase 2$943.5M totalNewCapitalAnnounced

Rural and remote communities get replacement hospitals and health facilities and better accommodation for health staff.

General Government capital, $943.5 million over 7 years from the Sustaining Capital Program. BP4 does not separately disclose a 2022-23 budget-year figure for this measure, so the budget-year amount is recorded as null.

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Statewide measures

Most budget measures are allocated statewide rather than to individual regions. The full budget overview lists all 50 tracked initiatives, many of which deliver services in Mackay-Whitsunday. The Regional Delivery Plan (linked below) details specific capital works and programs for this region.

Source document

Regional Delivery Plan — Mackay-Whitsunday (PDF)

Last updated: 2026-06-21. Factual information from published budget documents.