The NSW Opposition says Premier Chris Minns is out of touch with NSW families and doesn\u2019t understand the current cost of living crisis after he was unaware of his cuts to Back to School vouchers.
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\u201cIn their first Budget, the Minns Labor Government axed the Liberals and Nationals Government\u2019s Back to School vouchers, a cost of living assistance package that gave all parents $150 per child in vouchers to help with the costs of school supplies, uniforms and technology,\u201d Leader of the Opposition Mark Speakman said.
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\u201cIn a comment which shows that Chris Minns doesn\u2019t get the current cost of living crisis, he remarkably declared that \u2018Back to School vouchers haven\u2019t been changed\u2019\u201d.
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\u201cIf Chris Minns isn\u2019t aware of his own decisions to axe cost of living support for families, how can he possibly begin to understand the impact of his cuts?\u201d
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Shadow Minister for Education Sarah Mitchell said the axing of Back to School vouchers follows Chris Minns\u2019 decision to break his election promise and slash Active Kids, Creative Kids and First Lap vouchers.
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\u201cThe Opposition understands the importance of helping families with the cost of school, sports and extracurricular activities \u2013 that\u2019s why we implemented these vouchers,\u201d Ms Mitchell said.\u00a0
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\u201cIn another example of just how out of touch the Minns Labor Government is, the Deputy Premier and Minister for Education described this important support as a \u2018cash splash\u2019.\u201d
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\u201cFamilies are paying the price for Labor\u2019s Budget mismanagement. The Opposition will continue to fight for families and for more support to address the increasing cost of living.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The NSW Opposition says Premier Chris Minns is out of touch with NSW families and doesn\u2019t understand the current cost of living crisis after he was unaware of his cuts to Back to School vouchers.\u00a0\u201cIn their first Budget, the Minns Labor Government axed the Liberals and Nationals Government\u2019s Back to School vouchers, a cost of … Continue reading “Minns out of touch with NSW families”<\/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-24803","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\/24803","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=24803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24804,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24803\/revisions\/24804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}