NSW treasurer hopes ambitious reforms and spending will show voters ‘generational change’ in a 12-year-old government
“We’re going to fight the next election on our commitment to invest in our kids [and] to provide opportunities for women to thrive in our economy,” he told the Guardian this week.
Amid an energy crisis, industrial unrest, and in the wake of severe flooding, it is also an opportunity for relatively new premier Dominic Perrottet to win over voters who may have initially beenWith unprecedented deficits, rising inflation and, Kean has insisted that now is not the time for austerity. Instead, the government is pushing ahead with a number of ambitious reforms and spending commitments.
“[Perrottet is] the youngest premier in the state’s history with seven kids [and] he’s married to a highly successful professional woman in her own right … You know, this guy clearly understands the difficulty of juggling family life with professional life,” Kean says. “You know, my parents’ generation, my mum stayed at home and my dad worked. That was how Australian society was structured, around a family with a male breadwinner or a female homemaker,” he says.
Kean bristles at the suggestion the budget is purely a response to the federal election, pointing out that the policies announced by the government were recommendations from anto advise the government on how to increase women’s economic engagement in NSW. That panel was put together four months before the federal election.
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