After 12 years in office, Dominic Perrottet’s government is tired and failing to deliver the essential services New South Wales families rely on.
They’ve had 12 years to fix the problems in health, education and cost of living and they have failed. You can’t trust them to fix it now.
The NSW Liberals have spent the last 12 months trying to make up for the last 12 years of waste and mismanagement.
If they get another four years, it will be more of the same.
Under 12 months of Perrottet and 12 years of the Liberals, education standards have gone backwards. We have a chronic teacher shortage that we are no closer to addressing.
Under 12 months of Perrottet and 12 years of the Liberals we have a health system in crisis – emergency waiting times are the worst they have ever been, paramedics are stretched, nurses are overworked.
Under 12 months of Perrottet and 12 years of the Liberals they have cut TAFE and halved the number of apprentices and traineeships even though we have a skills shortage.
Under 12 months of Perrottet and 12 years of the Liberals they have increased tolls and offshored the manufacturing of trains, ferries and buses.
As this 12-year-old government lurches from scandal to scandal and ministers are fighting amongst themselves, it’s clear they are too busy focused on themselves and not on the challenges facing NSW.
Dominic Perrottet and the Liberals and Nationals don’t deserve another four years in office.
There is a better way.
New South Wales deserves a positive vision for the state. A Minns Labor Government will begin the long term repair and reform to services that people rely on.
12 MONTHS OF PERROTTET AND 12 YEARS OF THE LIBERALS AND NATIONALS:
- Falling Education standards – NSW students have dropped from 4th to 6th in reading, 3rd to 5th in maths, and 3rd to 5th in science.
- Teacher shortage crisis in NSW – in 2021, 10,000 teachers left the profession. 60 per cent of teachers say they plan to leave the profession in the next 5 years.
- 76,000 patients left emergency without completing treatment – or 1 in 10 – the highest on record.
- The worst ambulance wait times in over a decade.
- Longest waiting times for non-urgent surgery on record. Half of these patients waited longer than 339 days.
- Cost of living crisis – tolls, fees, fines, taxes, charges up. NSW is the most taxed state in the country.
- Tollmania in Sydney – Dominic Perrottet signed the contacts to make Sydney the most tolled city in the world.
- Wants to introduce a land tax – a forever tax on your home.
- Offshored manufacturing – we’ve lost 4,000 jobs overseas.
- Jobs for mates – Barilaro handed a plum job in New York.
- Wanted to spend $25 million on a flag pole.
- Closed down the train network without justification.
- Privatised $93.6 billion in asset sales.
- Raised the highest amount of revenue on record for low range speeding fines with their secret mobile speed cameras.
- Responsible for the iCare debacle that saw 52,000 workers underpaid, and had to bail out the insurer with $3.9 billion because of mismanagement.
- Responsible for TAHE – NSW Government given an “extreme risk” finding by the NSW Auditor-General, revealing that TAHE delivered a $5.2 billion blow to the NSW Budget.
- Announced a budget that puts NSW in $182.2 billion in gross debt – the highest in NSW history.
- Procured trains that don’t in tunnels, ferries that don’t fit under bridges and have cracks in them, and shut down a light rail route due to trams cracking.
- Voted against ending the rorting in NSW.
- Opposed legislating Net Zero by 2050.
- Trying to sell off 19 more TAFE campuses even though we have a skills shortage.
- Police force attrition rates have doubled since 2019.
- Eleni Petinos Saga – Dominic Perrottet was aware of bullying issues surrounding Eleni Petinos but has never provided an explanation for her termination.
PRUE CAR MP
NSW DEPUTY LABOR LEADER
