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Better access to health care is now a step closer for families in the southern suburbs of the City of Whittlesea with construction starting on the new Super Clinic.  

At the sod turning ceremony, the Minister for Health, Tanya Plibersek, indicated that the new clinic would be a welcome addition and would have a specific focus on child health, intellectually and physically disabled patients and chronic disease prevention and management.

The clinic is located on Civic Drive, near the new South Morang train station, and adjacent to the Westfield Shopping Centre. It will house multidisciplinary teams of general practitioners, nurses and allied health professionals.

More NBN fibre to roll out in Scullin

17,600 homes and businesses in Bundoora, Epping, Mill Park and South Morang will have access to National Broadband Network fibre services under NBN Co's first three year fibre roll out plan.

Construction of the fibre network in these areas will begin progressively between April 2012 and June 2015.

The NBN Co has an interactive searchable map where you can enter an address to see details for when the NBN is coming to an area.

Harry is very pleased that even more families and businesses in Scullin will now have high-speed online access, and will lead to substantial benefits for local businesses and employment opportunities for young people in the future.

Construction starts on Trade Training Centre in Lalor

Last week, Harry turned the first sod of the new $6.4 million Peter Lalor Trade Training Centre.

The Training Centre will provide local students with industry relevant training in fields like automotive and construction.

While Peter Lalor Vocational College is the lead school, other schools will also use the facility including Epping, Lalor North, Mill Park, Thomastown, and William Ruthven Secondary Colleges, as well as The Lakes South Morang P-9 School.

The Training Centre will have an automotive workshop, an automotive small parts work shop, two construction rooms, five theory rooms, a machine room and covered outdoor work areas.

Battle of the Anzac Biscuit

This month, Harry was joined by the Minister for Veteran's Affairs, Warren Snowdon, to test Anzac biscuit baking skills with a class 5 and 6 students at Diamond Creek East Primary School.

Mr Snowdon was shown the ropes by the champion biscuit bakers at the school who took the top honours for a Victorian primary school in the Department of Veterans' Affairs Anzac Day Schools' Awards in 2011. 

$14 million for Academic and Research Precinct at the Northern Hospital

The Federal Government will provide $14 million towards the construction of the new $35.5 million Northern Health Teaching, Training and Research Precinct, to be located at the Northern Hospital in Epping.

This is a vital project for Melbourne's North. The precinct will provide up to 665 undergraduate, graduate and post graduate student placements in the areas of medicine, nursing and a range of allied health disciplines.

Jobs and community services, schools, health reform, the environment and support for the disadvantaged.

Harry works hard to ensure that the northern suburbs of Melbourne gets its fair share of benefits.  His actions have always been about the local area and how Labor can improve the lives of the residents of Scullin.

New Resource building and gymnasium at St Clare's School

A major building project is now complete - a new Resource building including a children's kitchen and two learning spaces, as well as a fully equiped art room, and a new all weather gymnasium with a full sized basketball, netball and volleyball courts.

New learning environment for Meadowglen Primary  

The new $3.2 million Multipurpose centre is now in use at Meadowglen Primary, providing a new learning environment for students.

The new centre includes 6 classrooms and an open learning area with access to ICT, and was built as part of the Australian Government's Building the Education Revolution (BER).  They replace the relocatable buildings teachers and students previously worked in. 

Almost every local government and non-government school is benefiting from the Building the Education Revolution program.

Here is a full list of the 87 projects at local schools.

Since the Federal Labor Government was elected in 2007, Harry has secured funding for:

Local jobs and the economy - with more than $665 million to stimulate the local region's economy, including upgrades and repairs to schools, social housing units and recreation and sporting facilities.

Health - a new $3.7 million South Morang GP Super Clinic will be built in the rapidly growing City of Whittlesea. The service will include privately and publicly provided primary care services based around a general practice employing 12 GPs.

Local Schools - a record investment of $101.9 million for local government schools to build much needed infrastructure like libraries, sporting facilities, class rooms, halls and science centres.

Community Building - a significant investment in local community development and infrastructure through the Nation Building Program. 

Housing - 34 new affordable rental homes will be built in the electorate for low and middle income families and 53 public houses will be upgraded or undergo repairs, increasing the supply of affordable housing and improving the quality of life of public housing tenants.