Great Eastern Highway Upgrade

• Realign and reconstruct a two-kilometre section of road, south of the current highway.
• Widen shoulders and install safety barriers (where required).
• Build a new intersection at Old Northam Road (further south), with left and right turning lanes.
• Reconstruct Wooroloo Prison Farm access road, with left and right turning lanes.

Fencing along the new road boundary presented a training opportunity for prisoners at Wooroloo Prison Farm. Working in collaboration with the Department of Justice, the program allowed prisoners to complete the accredited unit ‘AHCINF202 Install, maintain and repair farm fencing’ which forms part of the Certificate II in Agriculture.

The program will not only help prisoners find employment when they are released, but it also helps instil a sense of community.

Several healthy grass trees were replanted and relocated, to ensure more trees continue to flourish and that the local Perth Hills environment is preserved for years to come.

Targets for both Indigenous Participation and Business Spend were exceeded on the project, which was completed in April 2022.

The Indigenous local area was defined as Perth, with the targets achieved through employees and contractors delivering construction activities including earth works, drainage works, pavement construction, concreting and landscaping. The use of incentivised payments within the contract for achieving targets and providing continual tracking of progress to Main Roads assisted in exceeding the planned targets.