Winun Ngari Aboriginal Corporation, Protecting Children on Remote Aboriginal Communities, $5,000.00

Remote indigenous communities suffer severe socio-economic disadvantages. Purchasing child car restraints is often beyond the financial reach of parents on remote communities. Also due to their remoteness and seasonal isolation, these communities are not able to easily access suppliers of child car restraints if they do want to purchase them. The only available mode of transport between these remote communities and Derby is road transport. This involves a round trip of up to 800km from the remote communities, much of which is along unsealed roads. Between 2004 and 2008 there were at least 10 serious crashes between Derby and the remote communities along the Gibb River Road. Very few of these crashes involved behaviour being a factor. Road transport injury is the leading cause of death in WA for children aged 0-14 years and the second largest cause of hospitalisation for this age group.  Road trauma accounted for seven deaths and 111 hospitalisations in children aged between 0-11 in 2005.

Town of Victoria Park, Speed Display Trailer to Improve Community Safety & Mitigate Road Trauma - $20,000.00

The Town of Victoria Park community has benefited from a speed trailer in the past. The shared Unit with the City of Belmont played an active role in speed reduction campaigns and increasing the awareness for driver speed compliance. This unit is no longer deployed due to age and the unavailability of replacement parts and ceased operations in September 2010. Replacement of the speed reduction unit aligns to the Town of Victoria Park Plan for the Future 2011-2026.  Given the councils inner city location council is expecting significant developer demand, certain population growth with greater demands for services and infrastructure. The population of the Town is expected to grow to 45,756 by 2031 representing an increase of 38%.  The speed reduction trailer will be used to: lessen risk of road trauma, increase driver speed compliance, lessen complaints to council from the public, decrease staff time allocated to deal with complaints, improve public relations, increase safety near schools and development sites, increase availability of useable speed data in conjunction with traffic classifier data for information sharing with police in relation to speeding hot spots. 

Shire of Roebourne, Shire of Roebourne Community Road Safety Campaign - $20,000.00

The Shire of Roebourne has taken this opportunity to engage in meaningful participation in the promotion of road safety within the region.  This will also strengthen community awareness; encourage road users to take responsibility of safe road use and to promote road safety through media, roadside messages, media promotion and public education.  Messages will include, current road conditions, secure load messages, speed limits, safe driving messages, seat belt messages, road hazards, anti-drink driving messages. 

Workforce Development Grants

City of Albany, Road Safety Audit Seminar - $770.00

City of Albany, Road Design Course - $775.00

Shire of Katanning, Road Safety Audit Seminar - $1,000.00

Shire of Plantagenet, Road Safety Audit Seminar - $880.00

Sponsorship Grants

Broome Sports Association