{"id":25849,"date":"2024-03-25T10:27:47","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T10:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=25849"},"modified":"2024-03-25T10:27:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T10:27:47","slug":"libs-chris-minns-and-labor-a-year-of-disappointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/03\/25\/libs-chris-minns-and-labor-a-year-of-disappointment\/","title":{"rendered":"Libs: Chris Minns and Labor: A year of disappointment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The people of NSW are having to deal with higher rents, housing prices and everyday living costs after twelve months of the Minns Labor Government.\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>Leader of the Opposition Mark Speakman said Chris Minns and Labor are letting NSW down.<br>\u00a0<br>\u201cHouseholds and families are being let down \u2013 day to day expenses are sky rocketing and Labor has slashed cost of living support like Active Kids, Creative Kids, First Lap, Back to School vouchers and the Regional Seniors Travel Card,\u201d Mr Speakman said. \u00a0\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u201cCommunities across the State are being let down &#8211; Labor has delayed and cancelled new road and metro projects and communities are feeling less safe. And our young people are being let down \u2013 rents are up, houses have never been less affordable and tax choice for first home buyers has been axed.\u201d<br>\u00a0<br>\u201cChris Minns has been spending most of his time cutting ribbons on projects funded, commenced or delivered by the Liberals and Nationals rather than addressing the needs of hard-working families.<br>\u00a0<br>Leader of the NSW Nationals Dugald Saunders said regional communities have been left behind, as valuable dollars are ripped out of the regions.<br>\u201cWe always knew the bush would be worse off under a Minns Labor Government, and our worst fears have already been confirmed,\u201d Mr Saunders said.<br>\u201cIn a year of the Minns Labor Government, vital programs like the Regional Seniors Travel Card, Resources for Regions and the Stronger Country Communities Fund have been sent to the chopping block.\u201d<br>\u00a0<br>\u201cLabor\u2019s \u201cfresh start\u201d has also seen the head of the Department of Primary Industries sacked and the \u2018local\u2019 taken out of Local Land Services.\u201d<br>\u00a0<br>After a year of Chris Minns and Labor \u2013 you\u2019re paying more, households and families are worse off and Labor don\u2019t have a plan to address the cost of living crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The people of NSW are having to deal with higher rents, housing prices and everyday living costs after twelve months of the Minns Labor Government.\u00a0\u00a0Leader of the Opposition Mark Speakman said Chris Minns and Labor are letting NSW down.\u00a0\u201cHouseholds and families are being let down \u2013 day to day expenses are sky rocketing and Labor &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/03\/25\/libs-chris-minns-and-labor-a-year-of-disappointment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Libs: Chris Minns and Labor: A year of disappointment&#8221;<\/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-25849","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\/25849","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=25849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25850,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25849\/revisions\/25850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}