The South Coast and Bega Liberal candidates have welcomed the commitment by the NSW Liberal and Nationals Government to inject $23 million into Surf Life Saving NSW (SLSNSW), the biggest investment in the organisation in its 116-year history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Candidate for South Coast Luke Sikora and Bega Russell Fitzpatrick said the funding will significantly enhance SLSNSW\u2019s capability with new rescue vehicles, jet skis and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis is an incredibly important funding commitment from the Perrottet Liberal Team. It supports volunteer lifesavers who put themselves in harm\u2019s way to protect our beaches and keep them safe,\u201d Mr Sikora said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr Fitzpatrick said, \u201cThe Perrottet Government\u2019s plan for the future includes supporting frontline services. That is only possible from their strong economic record which allows significant funding like this to be injected into Surf Life Saving NSW to assist the volunteer lifesavers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Minister for Emergency Services and Resilience Steph Cooke said the funding commitment for SLSNSW comes at a critical time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis summer is not over yet but we\u2019ve already experienced record numbers of rescues and sadly drownings. This extra funding will go a long way towards ensuring our volunteers are better supported to keep our communities safer and stronger,\u201d Ms Cooke said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SLSNSW President George Shales said an investment in lifesavers is an investment in community safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI welcome today\u2019s announcement, which is a significant increase on previous NSW Government support for our thousands of volunteers and staff. Every single dollar will make a difference to the equipment and resources our volunteers rely on, helping us to save more lives,\u201d Mr Shales said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The NSW Liberal and Nationals Government\u2019s $23 million funding commitment consists of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The South Coast and Bega Liberal candidates have welcomed the commitment by the NSW Liberal and Nationals Government to inject $23 million into Surf Life Saving NSW (SLSNSW), the biggest investment in the organisation in its 116-year history. Candidate for South Coast Luke Sikora and Bega Russell Fitzpatrick said the funding will significantly enhance SLSNSW\u2019s … Continue reading “Funding boost for South Coast and Bega lifesavers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20260,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20259\/revisions\/20260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}