Building a better NSW

In the 15 months since the people of NSW elected this Government, much has been done, and much remains to do. This, our second budget – only 9 months since the first – continues our focus on the vision we have and the work needed to realise it:

• the work still to be done for the millions of families and businesses burdened by decades-high levels of inflation
• the duty we still owe to the tens-of thousands of patients who turn to our public hospitals for urgent care
• the task of providing hundreds of thousands of students attending our public schools with a world-leading education
• the responsibility we have to protect every community against crime, tragedy and terror
• and the job we have lifted from the too-hard basket: to back every citizen striving to own a home, rent a home, or who needs social housing. 

These challenges are this Government’s causes. We do not expect to overcome them in a single budget. But in each Labor budget, we will make progress. When we pair the public’s resources with the people’s priorities, real change can happen.

In this Labor budget we continue our plans to bust the wages cap, reform tolls, back first-home buyers, build new and better public schools and hospitals, speed up the renewables revolution, rebuild rural and regional roads, help small businesses, and wrangle debt back under control. 

But still, more progress is possible

Careful management of the public’s finances means we can afford to accelerate change.

We can do more to prevent family and domestic violence. And we can do more to support victim-survivors.

We can do more to help people visit their GP. And we can surge more resources into our emergency departments.

And for housing

We can change planning laws and incentivise councils to build more homes close to infrastructure and services. 

We can build homes for key workers to rent in the places we need them to be.

And we can restore social housing so that it is once again a reliable foothold for people who find themselves able to rely on so little else.

These things are essential for the better NSW the Minns Labor Government is determined to build.

This budget continues our plan to make this vision a reality.