State MPs Julia Finn (Granville) and Lynda Voltz (Auburn) welcomed the State Government’s budget which they have said would improve essential services, deliver cost-of-living relief and lay a foundation for a better and more secure future for NSW.
The budget included upgrades at Birrong Boys and Birrong Girls high schools and a commitment to make more teachers and support staff permanent, as well as $500,000 towards a $1 million commitment to undertake a traffic study in Granville, South Granville, Auburn and Lidcombe as part of the five-year, post opening review of the M4 motorway.
It also included: Building more homes including $46.079m funding for local public housing projects; making more than 200 teachers and support staff permanent; provision of $500 free relief per child for three-year-olds in Long Day Care settings; wage rises for public employees; and energy bill relief.
Ms Finn said the budget sets out a plan to start the work of repairing the budget in a sustainable way, to rebuild our essential services and to help NSW families with the cost-of-living.
“A decade of damage to essential services, failure to fund essential programs and increasing pressures on families cannot be fixed overnight,” she said.
Ms Voltz said the two Birrong schools had for years been promised much-needed funding or long overdue upgrades but it was never delivered.
“These high schools are very important to the fabric of our local community and it’s imperative we ensure facilities are able to deliver for students into the future,” she said.
Praise cost-of-living relief
AFTER “a decade of damage to essential services, failure to fund essential programs and increasing pressures on families”, Labor’s first State Budget marked the beginning of the long-term plan to address those challenges, according to local State MPs.
