{"id":34662,"date":"2025-09-03T11:59:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T01:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=34662"},"modified":"2025-09-03T11:59:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T01:59:32","slug":"labor-takes-credit-for-liberals-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/09\/03\/labor-takes-credit-for-liberals-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor takes credit for Liberals\u2019 work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The NSW Liberals have exposed Labor\u2019s attempts to take credit for projects already funded and delivered by the former Liberal Government.<br>\u00a0<br>Shadow Minister for the Illawarra and South Coast Natalie Ward said Labor shouldn\u2019t be rewarded for their dishonesty.<br>\u00a0<br>\u201cLabor is shamelessly trying to pass off the Liberals\u2019 work as their own because the Labor Government\u2019s record of delivery for the Kiama electorate is practically non-existent,\u201d Ms Ward said.<br>\u00a0<br>\u201cLabor is claiming credit for the Shoalhaven Hospital Redevelopment and the new Shellharbour Hospital. Both were fully funded and initiated by the Liberals \u2013 all Labor has left to do is cut the ribbon.\u201d<br>\u00a0<br>\u201cThese hospitals were planned, designed and funded by the Liberals, because this sort of investment requires a Government with vision and sound financial management. Labor ignored this community until a by-election forced them to show up.\u201d<br>\u00a0<br>\u201cLabor\u2019s cupboard of achievements is so bare they\u2019ve even claimed credit for the Princes Highway Upgrade and the Nowra Bypass planning, again delivered by the Liberals.\u201d<br>\u00a0<br>\u201cUnlike Labor, the Liberals have a strong record of delivery for the Kiama community, which means only we can be trusted to deliver.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NSW Liberals have exposed Labor\u2019s attempts to take credit for projects already funded and delivered by the former Liberal Government.\u00a0Shadow Minister for the Illawarra and South Coast Natalie Ward said Labor shouldn\u2019t be rewarded for their dishonesty.\u00a0\u201cLabor is shamelessly trying to pass off the Liberals\u2019 work as their own because the Labor Government\u2019s record &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/09\/03\/labor-takes-credit-for-liberals-work\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Labor takes credit for Liberals\u2019 work&#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-34662","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\/34662","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=34662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34663,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34662\/revisions\/34663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}