Promise tracker

12 May 2011: Following the release of the Federal Budget, an updated promise tracker will be made available soon.  Please check back regularly for updates.

Since December 2007 the Northern Territory has suffered a number of broken promises under a Federal Labor Government.

Promise tracker legend

Promise broken

Promise stalled/status unknown

Health

End the blame game on health by making the Federal Government responsible for funding

Education

	Trades Training Centres - only two of seven built
	Computers in Schools - less than one third delivered
	Introduction of a $4b Education Tax Refund - funding cut by $1.6b

Infrastructure

	$50 million over 4 years for community, beef and mining roads in the Northern Territory, including $10 million for flood immunity on Port Keats Road, Wadeye
	$3 million upgrade Hidden Valley International Dragstrip in Darwin

Crime

$2.25 million 'Safer Suburbs' Strategy in Darwin and Palmerston. No street lighting installed in lanes, no tackling of local crime and no CCTV installed in hotspot suburbs including Parap, Wanguri, Malak and Karama. Crime statistics among the worst in Australia.

National Nuclear Waste Repository

No waste repository in the Northern Territory under Labor - Muckaty Station now only site being considered

Defence

No medical centre at Robertson Barracks

Housing affordability

'Only Labor can fix the rental crisis' - accommodation now harder than ever to find and more expensive in Northern Territory centres: not one project approved under the National Rental Affordability Scheme