St Andrews Christian School needed two new classrooms and amenities blocks.

It was great to announce a grant of $500,000 last week to assist with this. The school will match the grant to complete the project.

It was a pleasure to also hand out Zone Swimming Carnival Awards to students while I was there.

It is a great community school.

Members of our community at risk of heart disease will receive timely and appropriate medical advice with the creation of a new Medicare item for Heart Health Checks from next month.

This will save and protect lives.

We are committed to tackling Australia’s biggest killer – heart disease. One Australian dies of cardiovascular disease every 12 minutes, with one Australian experiencing a heart attack or stroke every five minutes.

Two new overpass bridges have opened to traffic between Tyndale and Maclean as part of the Woolgoolga to Ballina Pacific Highway upgrade.

The completion of the Byrons Lane and McIntyres Lane overpasses create important local road connections providing the community with safe and reliable access to cross the upgraded highway.

There are 170 bridges being built for the Woolgoolga to Ballina upgrade and the project team has completed, or is currently building 93 percent of these.