NSW Liberal Leader Mark Speakman has called on the Minns Labor Government to protect household budgets from increasing cost of living pressures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As households across the state are hit with another interest rate rise, the Labor Government won\u2019t come clean on what programs will be cut to deliver their unfunded $618 million per annum wage offer to union bosses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAt a time when many families are struggling, the last thing they need is for this government to cut vital programs like Active Kids. The Premier needs to prioritise families ahead of deals with unions,\u201d Mr Speakman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Minns Labor Government must immediately explain how they\u2019ll pay for their unfunded wage offer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Labor Party went to the election claiming that wage increases would cost $0, but that has now been proven to be a lie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey had also promised before the election that productivity savings would be made to offset increasing public sector wages, but so far no savings have been identified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWith the state now facing a $618 million annual bill, we don\u2019t know what will be cut to pay for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cA responsible government does not offer unfunded pay rises or put additional pressure on people across this state at the worst possible time as prices and interest rates skyrocket.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWage increases for public sector workers are important, but they shouldn\u2019t come at the expense of cost of living support for families and households who are struggling during these difficult economic times,\u201d Mr Speakman concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NSW Liberal Leader Mark Speakman has called on the Minns Labor Government to protect household budgets from increasing cost of living pressures. As households across the state are hit with another interest rate rise, the Labor Government won\u2019t come clean on what programs will be cut to deliver their unfunded $618 million per annum wage … Continue reading “Unfunded promises will cost NSW households”<\/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-21363","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\/21363","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=21363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21364,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21363\/revisions\/21364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}