7 April 2022
Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast, Adam Crouch MP in opening the Central Coast Economic Breakfast on Wednesday 16th March announced the long-awaited university campus in Gosford for the University of Newcastle would go ahead on the old Mitre 10 site in Gosford.
The announcement was made to an audience of some 200 local business and community leaders at a breakfast meeting at Mingara Club.
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7 April 2022
This year Mars Food celebrates its 30th anniversary at Berkeley Vale, a tribute to an international corporation that chose this region when the decision was made to move out of Sydney and have remained here ever since.
More to the point though, in making the Central Coast the home for their MasterFoods brand they have shown themselves to be a strong supporter of the region and part of the community.
With a payroll in excess of $50 million annually plus a hefty spend supporting l...
7 April 2022
Prime Minister, Scott Morrison was on the Central Coast in mid-March to officially open the University of Newcastle’s Central Coast Clinical School and Research Institute adjacent to Gosford Hospital.
Completed in June last year it was the Prime Minister’s first opportunity to open the campus due to COVID restrictions.
The dream of Ms Wicks, Federal Member for Robertson, when she was first elected ten years ago was for a world class university in Gosford.
The Campus is a partne...
7 April 2022
After hitting a high of $15,535 million in 2019 GRP has fallen back to levels last seen in 2017.
However, it should be noted that the region’s growth over the past 20 years has stagnated. GRP in 2001 was $112,426 million with year-on-year changes being less than 1% per annum.
This compares with Greater Sydney where year on year growth has been running at around 3.5%.
Economic activity on the Central Coast has stalled since 2019.
This could be attributable to the COVID pa...
7 April 2022
This month we continue with our annual Central Coast Economic Report, an initiative we implemented in April last year, so as to highlight to the community, business and government the state of the regional economy.
From around 1995 to 2011 the Central Coast Research Foundation (am offshoot of the highly regarded and long-standing Hunter Valley Research Foundation) provided half yearly Central Coast Economic Updates.
The State Government and local councils covered the costs. Got killed...
