- Tasmania's 2025-26 Budget allocates $3.4 billion for infrastructure, including $1.6 billion for roads and bridges, $696 million for hospitals and £300 million for education facilities
- The Budget commits to delivering 10,000 new homes by 2032, requiring sustainable construction materials supply
- CCAA calls for a Heavy Construction Materials Plan to protect resources, improve approvals and ensure efficient freight links
- The construction industry seeks faster approvals, quarry site protection and procurement reform for decarbonisation
- CCAA supports lower-carbon construction through performance-based standards and alternative materials like fly ash and slag
Cement Concrete & Aggregates Australia (CCAA) has welcomed the Tasmanian Government’s 2025–26 Budget, which maintains strong investment in housing, health, transport and community infrastructure, but says these ambitions can only be achieved with a sustainable, affordable and low-carbon supply of construction materials.
“This Budget recognises the importance of building the infrastructure and homes that Tasmanians need,” said Michael Kilgariff, Chief Executive Officer of CCAA.
“Delivering these projects efficiently will depend on coordinated planning for quarry resources, streamlined approvals and better freight access.”
The Budget provides $3.4 billion in infrastructure investment over four years, including $1.6 billion for roads and bridges, $696 million for hospitals and more than $300 million for education facilities, alongside a continued commitment to deliver 10 000 new homes by 2032.
“These initiatives will drive strong demand for concrete, aggregates and sand across Tasmania,” Mr Kilgariff said.
“That’s why CCAA is calling for a Heavy Construction Materials Plan to align resource protection, improve environmental approvals and ensure efficient freight links between quarries, batching plants and project sites.”
CCAA has consistently called for faster approvals, protection of key quarry sites, procurement reform to decarbonise cement and concrete, and long-term planning certainty — as detailed in its Tasmanian Election Priorities document — priorities acknowledged by the Government in its July 2025 Economic Statement and Premier Rockliff’s subsequent correspondence.
Mr Kilgariff said the sector also stands ready to help the State meet its sustainability goals.
“By embedding performance-based standards and supporting the use of supplementary materials such as fly ash and slag, the Government can promote lower-carbon construction while supporting local jobs and innovation,” he said.
“The heavy construction materials industry is ready to partner with the Tasmanian Government to deliver the homes, hospitals, roads and renewable-energy infrastructure our communities need - built efficiently, affordably and sustainably.”
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CCAA is the voice of Australia’s heavy construction materials industry, an industry that generates over $15 billion annually and directly employs 30,000 Australians, with a further 80,000 employed indirectly. CCAA members produce most of Australia's cement, concrete, and aggregates, which are essential to the nation’s building and construction sectors.
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