Notes to the financial statements

for the year ended 30 June 2009

10 Grants and subsidies expense

 

2009
$000

2008
$000

Bus operators

197,240

182,427

Ferry services

607

597

Regional bus services

12,079

12,713

Student fare concessions

2,771

4,219

School bus services

84,294

75,790

Grants to local government

16,619

19,240

Rail corridor and freight issues management
(Eastern Goldfields Railway project)

0

37,100

 

313,610

332,086