A confidential Treasury analysis reveals the staggering cost of a major change to toll roads that had been recommended by a review.
Treasurer Daniel Mookhey says NSW this year must focus on planning reforms – but delivering much-needed housing is not the only reason.
Demographers say there will be an additional 51,926 primary and 40,497 high school students over the next 10 years to 2034.
The states have been warned their credit ratings could be sliced due to their inability to control spending.
The city has both the lowest and some of the highest unemployment rates in the country,which threatens to exacerbate differences in income and wealth.
The state’s budget problems are a big factor in the rail dispute – the Minns government can’t afford to splash the cash.
The state government has given its 2025 forecasts a major downgrade after a sluggish 2024.
The budget is forecast to be $1.3 billion worse off due to falling stamp duty revenue and amid warnings of inflation risks from Donald Trump’s trade policies.
The NSW opposition’s budget reply speech,as is customary,was an extended swipe at the government. But there was one good idea.
Just 5 per cent of clubs received half of the $1 billion in gambling tax concessions granted to clubs in 2022-23.