ROBINVALE-based Swan Hill Rural City councillor Jade Benham says plans for new accommodation to help attract doctors to the town is "amazing news".

The Victorian Government has allocated $350,000 to the Murray Valley Aboriginal Co-operative for the accommodation under a plan to boost local infrastructure for Aboriginal communities.

Cr Benham said the funding would be a significant boost with the town's sole permanent GP under immense pressure.

"That's amazing news...great...fantastic," she said when told of the funding announcement last week.

"That will mean so much for the town. At the moment, if you want to see a doctor, you have got a four to six-week wait, so if you have an infection or whatever you have to go to Mildura.

"Robinvale's sole permanent GP is under so much pressure taking care of her own medical practice, the urgent care unit at the health service and the hostel, so it's tough on her."

Cr Benham said that while it was "nice" to have visiting services and outreach sources from larger centres, permanent doctors were preferred.

"If we could attract GPs and their families to Robinvale and get involved in the community and send their kids to school and get involved in all the sporting and artistic pursuits, it just adds to the town," she said.

"The accommodation at Robinvale is at crisis level anyway as far as workers' accommodation, so if we could get that executive-style housing it is so desperately needed.

"It's hard to attract people from the city for anything when you're this far away from Melbourne.

"But if they see that they get a brand new house and you could be on an amazing package financially, they could come here for five years and then who knows — the world's your oyster.

"Commit to two years at least and then by the end of that two years we'd hope that you love the place so much that you don't want to leave."

The Victorian Government also said it would contribute $50,000 to the First People of the Millewa-Mallee Aboriginal Corporation for a feasibility study on its future infrastructure needs.

Minister for Aboriginal Affairs Gavin Jennings said eight projects across the state would share in more than $3 million as part of the Aboriginal Community Infrastructure Program.

Mr Jennings said improving Aboriginal community infrastructure was fundamental to the pursuit of self-determination and helped organisations have a strong social, cultural and economic base from which to build their futures.

"Every Aboriginal in Victoria deserves a space they can call their own and where they can be with others in their community — these grants help provide that," he said.