The NSW budget’s winners and losers

The NSW budget’s winners and losers

Teachers and students are the big winners,families and public transport users the losers.

  • byLaura Banks

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This is no horror budget,but Labor still had three dirty jobs to do

This is no horror budget,but Labor still had three dirty jobs to do

Although it’s unlikely to be popular,except perhaps with public sector workers,there are various minor cuts for the rest of us to be annoyed by.

  • byRoss Gittins
Housing affordability targeted in $13b budget makeover

Housing affordability targeted in $13b budget makeover

Treasurer Daniel Mookhey will deliver Labor’s first budget since 2010,which will focus on boosting housing supply,reforms to assist renters,and support for first home buyers.

  • byAlexandra Smith andMatt Wade
Everything we already know about the NSW budget

Everything we already know about the NSW budget

Here’s what we know so far about Treasurer Daniel Mookhey’s first state budget,to be delivered on Tuesday.

  • byAnthony Segaert
Voters want NSW government to rein in spending to pay off debt

Voters want NSW government to rein in spending to pay off debt

NSW voters are tightening their belts,and they expect the state government to do the same.

  • byAlexandra Smith
$115b question:Who gets what in NSW budget (and where does the money come from?)

$115b question:Who gets what in NSW budget (and where does the money come from?)

Where does the NSW government get its revenue? And how exactly is it dished out?

  • byMatt Wade
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Children robbed of their future amid failures to protect NSW’s most vulnerable
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Children robbed of their future amid failures to protect NSW’s most vulnerable

Reports of abuse and neglect are going ignored,caseworkers are overwhelmed and children are spending years bouncing through homes,hotels and other care amid an understaffed system.

  • byMax Maddison andAmber Schultz
‘You’ve broken my kid’s heart’:Waitlists for basketball are so long,parents are signing up in kindergarten

‘You’ve broken my kid’s heart’:Waitlists for basketball are so long,parents are signing up in kindergarten

NSW needs 136 more basketball courts to meet its current demand,as parents join three-year waitlists to place children in the popular sport.

  • byMary Ward
Minns government to reserve $3.6 billion to pay for public sector wage growth

Minns government to reserve $3.6 billion to pay for public sector wage growth

The price tag,which came without detail,provides an assessment of the likely cost of Labor’s decision to abolish the Coalition’s cap on wage growth for public sector workers.

  • byMichael Koziol
Daniel Mookhey styled himself as a financial Mr Fix-It:This is what you can expect in his first budget

Daniel Mookhey styled himself as a financial Mr Fix-It:This is what you can expect in his first budget

The treasurer is dressing like his predecessors. Under the surface,he couldn’t be more different.

  • byMatt Wade andAlexandra Smith
NSW to scrap EV subsidies in favour of more charging stations

NSW to scrap EV subsidies in favour of more charging stations

NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey will pull the plug on electric vehicle subsidies in Tuesday’s budget – but funding will remain for Metro West.

  • byAlexandra Smith andMatt Wade