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Message fromNSW OPPOSITION LEADER,
JOHN ROBERTSON
Barry OFarrell has let down the families of NSW.
After two years, the Premier has xed nothing.
Despite promising to lower the cost of living, Mr OFarrell has sent household bills
soaring by more than $1,000 each year.
Instead of investing in the basic services we rely on, the OFarrell Government has cut
$1.7 billion in funding from our schools and $3 billion from our hospitals.
School resources and assistance for students are being cut back, while hospital
wards and beds are being closed across the State.
Rather than improving community safety, the Premier has failed to take action on drive
by shootings and gun crime in Sydney.
Debt has blown out by $10 billion under this Government, and the States AAA credit
rating placed on negative outlook.
Mr OFarrell and his colleagues have xed nothing and let down the
families of NSW.
John Robertson MPNSW OPPOSITION LEADER
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THE OFARRELL GOVERNMENTHAS LET FAMILIES DOWNAND SENT TAXES AND BILLSSKYROCKETING:
Electricity up $594
Gas up $171
Green slips up $98
Council rates up $52
Water bills up $24
New land tax will cost $267 each year
Public preschools up $40 per day
Catholic school fees forced up because ofState Government budget cuts
Social housing rent for pensionersand veterans up $618
PUBLIC TRANSPORT FARESUP 10 PER CENT WHILE SERVICES GET WORSE:
Campbelltown, Penrith and Blue Mountainstrain fares up $208
Wyong and Gosford train fares
up $156
Stratheld and Faireld train fares
up $156Rockdale and Stratheld bus fares
up $124.80
Balmain bus fares up $83.20
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Risingcostofliving
It is imperative that the rst home buyers
incentives for the purchase of existingproperty be reintroduced.
(REINSW, 21 January 2013)
CUTS TOWORKERSCOMPENSATIONhave left thousands of workers
and their families struggling
to pay basic household and
medical bills
LOCKINGFIRST HOMEBUYERS
OUT OF THEMARKET:
Stampdutytaxorfrsthome
buyersupby$17,990
Axed$7,000grantorfrsthome
buyerspurchasinganexisting
home
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The OFarrell Governments $1.7 billion educationfunding cut is hurting schools and TAFE.
THE IMPACT IN OUR SCHOOLS:
Hundreds of school support staff and teachers aides sacked
School demountable replacement program axed
Funding for special needs students cut
Catholic and independent schools forced to raise fees due to budget cuts
Board of Studies loses $8.7 million in funding
Up to 400 regional education ofcers to be sacked
School cleaning hours cut
Students asked to supply schools with reams of paper and tissues
School infrastructure funding cut
Program to replace unued heaters scaled back
School Drug Prevention Unit abolished
School Sports Unit loses teaching experts and funding
HSC Advice Line axed
THE IMPACT IN OURTAFE COLLEGES AND VET SECTOR:
800 TAFE teachers and staff sacked
TAFE fees up 9.5 per cent
Funding for the Apprentice Joint Group Training Scheme abolishedArts courses no longer receive government funding
Support for TAFE students with a disability cut back
TAFE courses slashed, including more than 30 in the Hunter
Cutstoschools&TAFE
How can the government claim thatthese cuts will not affect the delivery ofeducation and especially the education of
high-needs children and young people?(Letter from the public, Catholic and independent school sectorteachers, principals and parents, 15 November 2012)
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FAMILIES ARE FACINGBED SHORTAGESAND GROWING WAITING LISTS:
$2.2 billion cut from hospital budgets and services
$775 million cut from hospital stafng budgets Longest surgical waiting list in history 71,509 currently waiting
Patients with life threatening injuries forced to wait an hour and a half for treatment
3,600 health workers set to lose their jobs
THE IMPACT OF THE GOVERNMENTSATTACK ON OUR HOSPITALSIS ALREADY BEING FELT, WITH:
Prince of Wales Hospital forced to close an entire ward and 26 beds Cardiac unit at Mount Druitt Hospital shut down
More than $3 million cut from the stafng budget at the Sydney Childrens Hospitals
Nursing shifts cut at John Hunter Hospital
St George Hospital forced to cut back on vital bowel cancer surgeries
Hydrotherapy pool at Prince of Wales Hospital to be privatised
More than 90 per cent of health job cuts are coming from frontline hospital positions
Ambulance night shifts cancelled to cut costs
Regional patients waiting up to ve hours for an ambulance
One in three ambulances forced to wait more than 30 minutes queuing outside
Emergency Departments
405 hospital beds the Minister claims to have opened were actually open
before the last election
Chairs are counted as beds in NSW hospitals as a cover for major bed shortages
Cutstohospitals
The Council remains extremely concerned at theprospect of severe reductions in budget and theconsequences for patient management and thedelivery of clinical services.(Prince of Wales Staff Medical Council, 28 February 2013)
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Families across our State rely on a top quality health system,but they are being let down by the OFarrell Governments$3 billion funding cut to NSW hospitals.
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BUDGET DEBT & DEFICITS:
Debt up by more than $10 billion
NSW is going into a $776 million decitthis year
Triple A credit rating on negative outlookEconomic growth is expected to fall from
2.6 per cent in 2010/11 to just 2 per cent
this year
Economic
mismanagement
The negativeoutlookreects our view that thereisa one-in-three
chanceofadowngradein thecoming24 months, basedon ourview
that NSWs budgetaryperformancecould weakenand might
notprovide NSW withthe capacityto... contain its debt burden.
(Standard&Poors,25October2012)
PUBLIC SECTORWORKERS SACKED,WITH MORE TOCOME:
3,600jobsrom
ourhospitals
2,400jobsromschools&TAFE
900jobsromcommunityservices
400jobsromemergencyservices
1,140jobsromrailsaetyand
maintenance
EXODUS OFJOBS FROM NSW:
500atKell&Rigby
500atWestpacinSydneyand
hundredsmoreattheCommonwealth
Bank,QBE,ANZ,NAB,Suncorpand
MacquarieBank
250Hunteraluminium
smelterjobs
190atReckittBenckiser
106atPacifcBrands 100jobsatRosella
The OFarrell Government has let down families by plunging theState into debt and increasing taxes, with nothing to show for it.
JOBS SUFFER:
15,000 workers sacked, includingteachers, nurses, emergency services
workers and rail safety staff
Thousands of private sector jobshave left the State
Government voted against Labors planfor a Jobs Commissioner to create and
protect jobs
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DELAYS ARE GETTINGWORSE, WHILEFARES INCREASE:
Nine major train delays at the beginning
of 2013 saw hundreds of thousands of
commuters left stranded for hours
Seven out of 16 train lines running late
Buses running late in every region
Grafti incidents up 10 per cent
29,000 complaints made to CityRail in
just one year a double digit increase
170 per cent train overcrowding on the
Western, Illawarra and South Line
DIRTY ANDDANGEROUS TRAINS:
Security patrols cut at stations
across Sydney
CCTV cameras turned off
on station platforms
1,140 rail safety and maintenance
workers sackedTown Hall and Wynyard stations
dangerously overcrowded
30 complaints lodged weekly
over dirty trains and stations
MAJOR PROJECTS DUMPED,DOWNGRADED OR LEFTWITHOUT FUNDING:
No start date, nish date or costings
for North West Rail Link (NWRL)
NWRL downgraded to a shuttlebetween Rouse Hill and Chatswood
Transport experts say the bus will
be faster than the NWRL
Parramatta Epping Rail Link scrapped
No express train services from
Campbelltown, Blue Mountains,
Penrith and Central Coast
New platforms at Town Hall
and Wynyard scrapped
Western Express dumped
Sydney Ferries privatised
REGIONAL TRANSPORTFORGOTTEN:
Removing the Newcastle Rail Line
20 Year Transport Masterplan completely
ignores regional NSWNo upgrades to CountryLink services
Transportchaos
Weve done some calculations from just abouteverywhere where someone would begin the trip to the
city, and except for the Cherrybrook people, there wouldbe a signicant saving in time by sticking with the bus.
(David Hensher on the NWRL, 2 September 2012)
After two years, the OFarrell Government hasnt xedour transport system. Delays are getting worse,while fares continue to increase.
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Instead of taking action on gun crime, the OFarrellGovernment has cancelled Police Academy classesand left police stations understaffed.
COMMUNITY SAFETY AND ATTACKSON OUR HARDWORKING POLICE FORCE:
More than 210 shootings since the OFarrell Government came to ofce
Class at the Police Academy cancelled preventing 300 new police ofcers graduating this year
Western Sydney police stations left critically understaffed
The Premier has failed to use legislation to outlaw criminal bikie gangs
Financial support for police ofcers injured in the line of duty slashed
FIREFIGHTERS HIT WITH HUGE BUDGET CUTS,DESPITE A HORRIFIC BUSHFIRE SEASON:
Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) budget cut by $64 million
Rolling re station closures because of cuts to the FRNSW stafng budget
Up to 420 reghters face the axe from FRNSW and 120 reghters
from the Rural Fire Service
The re engine replacement program has been slashed by 20 per cent
Communitysafetyatrisk
April 2012 was the worst month in thepast decade for the offence of dischargerearm into premises with 20 incidentsrecorded.(BOCSAR 6 September 2012)
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HuntinginNationalParks
Hunting in national parks: 10/10. Its coming, like Christmas.(Shooters and Fishers Party 2013)
PREMIER WARNEDOF DEATH OR INJURY
The Governments own risk
assessment states there is arisk of:
Death or injury to park visitors,staff and hunters themselves
Animal carcasses causingdamage to waterways
Bushwalkers and campers
coming face to face with
hunters
Death or injury to nativeanimals
Reduced visitor numbers
Dangerous confrontations
between armed hunters and
protestors
Hunters will be unsupervised
in the majority of national park
areas
The OFarrell Governments deal to allow hunting innational parks has put public safety and our environmentat risk.
OFARRELLS
BROKENPROMISEWE HAVE NOINTENTION OF DOINGDEALS WITH THEMINOR PARTIES.
THERE WILL NOTBE A DECISION TOTURN OUR NATIONALPARKS INTO HUNTINGRESERVES.
Barry OFarrellSydney Morning Herald13 April 2011
Most projectile injuries to people are likely tocause serious injury or death. Accordingly this risk
consequence is categorised as major.(Government risk assessment 2012)
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ENVIRONMENTALVANDALISM:
Abolished the Department
of Environment, Climate
Change and Water
Imposed a ve yearmoratorium on marine
parks and allowed shing
in protected ocean areas
Allowed grazing in nationalparks despite risks to ora
and fauna
Cut endangered species
protection for the Yellow
Bellied Glider and logged
its habitat
Initiated a trial of horse riding inwilderness areas, undermining
ecological protections
Expanding duck and
quail hunting
Introduced draconian wind
farm guidelines to shut downinvestment in the industry
Warontheenvironment
On the key indicator of ecosystem protection, the NatureConservation Council has marked the government with
2/10, the equivalent of an F.(Sydney Morning Herald, 18 March 2013)
The OFarrell Government has trashed environmentalprotections in NSW over the past two years.
BROKENTHE 26 YEAR BANON URANIUMEXPLORATION IN NSW
DUMPING 5,000 TONNESOF RADIOACTIVE WASTEfrom an abandoned uranium
smelter on the North Shore
in Western Sydney
RENEWED 22 COALSEAM GAS EXPLORATIONLICENSES IN NSW
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MOTORISTS FORCED TO PAY MORE:
Higher tolls on the M2, Harbour Bridge and Tunnel
Hiked up E-tag fees for drivers on the Harbour Bridge and Tunnel
Hundreds of new speed cameras and mobile speed cameras
Sevenfold increase in mobile speed camera operating hours 30 per cent jump in speed camera revenue
ROAD SAFETY SPENDING SLASHED:
Road Toll Response Package budget cut by half
$160 million slashed from the road maintenance and safety budget
500 road maintenance workers axed
MAJOR ROAD PROJECTS UNFUNDED AND ABANDONED:
The Government has broken its pre-election promise to fund the Pacic Highway duplication
50:50 with the Commonwealth, and pushed back the 2016 deadline by years
Wasting $20 million renaming existing roads, while safety spending slashed
Worseroads
highertolls
Whileinopposition,thecurrentNSW[Liberal] Governmentfrequently
called onthe NSW LaborGovernmenttomatchFederal fundingforthe Pacic
Highwaydollar-for-dollar andwesupportedthiscall too.Tonowsuggestthat
fundingshouldsuddenlyberevertedto an80:20modelwouldensurefurther
longdelaysinnallyupgradingthisdangeroushighway.
(WendyMachin, NRMA,27February2012)
Motorists have been let down by the OFarrell Government they are paying higher tolls and new charges to travel onincreasingly congested roads.
SYDNEY PEAK HOUR TRAFFIC SLOWS TO A CRAWL
Average speednow just 36km/h
(down 12km/h)
Average speednow just 45km/h
(down 7km/h)
Average speednow 82km/h
(down 9km/h)
Average speednow just 38km/h
(down 3km/h)
M4 M5 M7 ANZACBRIDGE
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THIS YEARTHE OFARRELL
GOVERNMENTIS WASTING
$270.5 MILLIONpurchasingand upgrading cars for Ministers
and top bureaucrats
$35 MILLION on a cost blowoutfor North West Rail Link tenders
$20 MILLION renaming roads in NSW$20 MILLION on executive trainingfor top bureaucrats
$19 MILLION for the dangerousplan to allow shooting in our national parks
An extra $14 MILLION on functions,events and support for Ministerial ofces
and government boards
$10 MILLION reimbursing companieswho make unsuccessful bids for the
North West Rail Link
$5.3 MILLION delivering a tax cutfor people with their own private jetties
$4.43 MILLION on new furnitureand ttings for Treasury
$1 MILLION advertising the failed
regional relocation program
OFarrellGovernmentwaste
Families have been let down by the Premiers decision toclose hospital beds and cut school resources, while he is
wasting billions on ministerial travel, new road namesand ofce upgrades.
OVER THISTERM OFGOVERNMENT,THE PREMIERIS WASTING:
$901 MILLIONonMinisterialand
bureaucrattravel
$256 MILLIONonGovernment
advertising
$230 MILLIONonconsultantreports
$188 MILLIONontheailedregional
relocationgrant
program
$116 MILLIONonextraspending
orthePremiersown
department
$3.2 MILLIONornewTreasury
ofcials
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