New South Wales Opposition Leader Mark Speakman says the New South Wales Labor government’s state budget was “disappointing” and showed a lot of “dodgy figures”. The Minns government handed down NSW Labor's first state budget since 2010 with Treasurer Daniel Mookhey announcing a $4 billion improvement over the forward estimates. “What we’ve got are a lot of dodgy figures; there’s a heroic assumption that wage growth … will be limited to 4.1 per cent every year for four years,” Mr Speakman told Sky News Australia “They’ve just done a deal with Teachers Federation offering teachers between 10 per cent and 80 per cent for the next year. “It’s pretty hard to see how other front-line workers like fireys and police and paramedics are going to sit back and ask for something far less.”
New South Wales Opposition Leader Mark Speakman says the New South Wales Labor government’s state budget was “disappointing” and showed a lot of “dodgy figures”.
The Minns government handed down NSW Labor's first state budget since 2010 with Treasurer Daniel Mookhey announcing a $4 billion improvement over the forward estimates. “What we’ve got are a lot of dodgy figures; there’s a heroic assumption that wage growth … will be limited to 4.1 per cent every year for four years,” Mr Speakman told Sky News Australia
“They’ve just done a deal with Teachers Federation offering teachers between 10 per cent and 80 per cent for the next year. “It’s pretty hard to see how other front-line workers like fireys and police and paramedics are going to sit back and ask for something far less.”
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