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Ebrief #48 - now available
Submitted by Penny on Fri, 14/11/2008 - 3:30pm.
Yes they did. I am still excited by Obama's victory. I hope that the mess he has inherited does not overwhelm his biggest achievement to date - getting people to care about the issues and then converting that into democratic participation. I look forward to a greener, more conciliatory, more humane US.
This week in parliament has been dominated by the mini-budget. I have included the media releases (below).
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Penny
NSW Mini Budget - difficult but some good news
Submitted by Penny Sharpe on Tue, 11/11/2008 - 12:14pm.
The Treasurer has just delivered his speech for the mini budget. The Government has had to find $3.3 billion in savings and has raised revenues by another $3.6 billion (including congestion tolls, fee rises and potential privatisations). The payroll tax cuts remain. Also announced is $850million of spending. The aim of all of this has been to maintain infrastructure spending, quarantine front line services, introduce an alternative electricity plan and maintain NSW's AAA credit rating.
There will be plenty of media attention given to the significant downsides to the budget. Today I want to draw your attention to some of the positives:
Special Budget ebrief
Submitted by Penny Sharpe on Fri, 22/06/2007 - 4:32pm.
A special State Budget edition of the ebrief is now available. It contains the media releases for each portfolio.
NSW Budget
Submitted by Penny Sharpe on Tue, 06/06/2006 - 4:00pm.
The NSW budget for 06/07 has been announced. I have highlighted some of the things that won’t necessarily get media attention but are excellent initiatives.
New preschool funding means that every child in NSW will have access to preschool.
The government has agreed to fund the wage increase for workers in over 7000 community organisations.
Education funding to reduce class sizes to 24 in year 2. In NSW public schools class sizes in kindergarten are now 20 and year 1 are 22.
Upgrades to train stations to make them accessible, new busways, new buses and new carriages for our train system.
