Mayor, Cr Murray Emerson has hailed the windfall 'gigantic' and 'outstanding'.

"I can't understate how important this is, it is gigantic," he said.

"We are always talking about our roads funding, our roads funding gap is getting bigger and bigger all the time.

"This year alone our infrastructure gap for roads was about $2 million.

"This injection of money will not only satisfy that amount in our budgets for the next two years, it will give us some extra money to do extra work which we need to do."

Cr Emerson said the announcement of additional funding is a win for every ratepayer in the Northern Grampians Shire.

"The most important part about it is it will take some pressure off our community's rate burden," he said.

"About half of our roads maintenance is funded by our ratepayers, we don't think that it is a fair amount."

Cr Emerson said a lot of work had gone into achieving the extra funds.

"We have been campaigning for extra money for our roads for a number of years," he said.

"My fellow councillors and I have at every opportunity mentioned the issue to our state and federal counterparts and the message has got through.

“We have been arguing that we don’t get enough money from state and federal government in regard to our roads and bridges.

“We believe that the federal and state governments should provide more funding in regard to roads because that is part of their business.

“As a result of this announcement, local governments throughout Australia will be receiving millions of dollars in extra road funding finance over the next three years.

“It will help us in the Northern Grampians Shire to maintain our roads and bridges.”

Member for Mallee Andrew Broad said the millions of dollars in additional funding will add to both the safety and economic activity of the region.

“This is a great outcome - it works out at $31 million in additional funding to be spent on upgrading the roads in the electorate of Mallee alone,” he said.

“From an economic viewpoint, the benefits of improved roads in our region will be felt nationally because as a leading producer of Australia’s food, the Wimmera and Mallee rely on quality roads, linking with the major arterials, to freight produce around the country and they also improve our ability to capitalise on export opportunities.

“On a local level, the Roads to Recovery program is crucial to maintaining safe roads and is an important part of initiatives developed to reduce the number of deaths and injuries on our country roads each year.

“This announcement will effectively mean a doubling of funds for our nine local governments in 2015-16 and tripling of funds in the 2016-17 and 2017-18 years and that’s all good news for the Wimmera and Mallee.”

Northern Grampians Shire will receive the second highest amount of Roads to Recovery funding out of 10 local governments in the Mallee electorate.

The total funding pool for the Mallee Electorate has now risen from $59,624,182 to $90,992,475.

Since Roads to Recovery began in 2001, councils have used it to upgrade more than 45,000 local streets and roads.

Mr Broad said all revenue raised through the fuel excise over the next decade will be invested in roads infrastructure.