A Minns Labor Government will invest in essential services with savings from slashing Liberal waste.
NSW Labor will deliver $1.6 billion in savings by reducing the Liberal government’s reliance on labour hire workers by 25 per cent.
This includes cutting wasteful spending on private external contractors.
Labor will reinvest this into essential services, with schools and hospitals to see the most benefit.
Under the Liberals: labour hire costs spiral out of control
The Liberal National government’s spending on labour hire has spiralled out of control.
In 2011-12 the Government spent $503 million on contractors.
This is set to reach $1.8 billion a year in 2022-23, and projected to surge even further in coming years.
Since 2016, the Perrottet Government’s spending on contingent labour has grown by an average of 19.4 per cent – every single year.
On the current trend, labour hire will cost the people of NSW over $2 billion a year by 2025.
It proves, yet again, that the Liberal National government has lost any sense of budget discipline, and won’t be able to deliver their promises or meet their unfunded $50 billion budget black hole, without further privatisation.
NSW Labor is making the tough decisions to find real budget savings, reign in spending and debt, and start the critical work repairing our essential public services.
Labor’s approach ensures we manage the budget responsibly and deliver on our promises to the people of NSW.
Quotes attributable to Chris Minns, NSW Labor Leader:
“A NSW Labor Government will invest in our essential services by cutting Liberal waste.
“NSW Labor recognises that we will have to work with the private sector in government, but we must get the budget back under control while reinvesting the savings to repair our schools and hospitals.
“We will only spend within our means, not make promises no-one believes and government can’t keep.
“Only Labor has a plan to fix the mess in our schools, hospitals and essential services.”
Quotes attributable to Daniel Mookhey, NSW Shadow Treasurer:
“Twelve years of this government has led to a public service run by a shadow army of non-permanent workers.
“With a severe shortage of critical workers across NSW, Mr Perrottet is spending an enormous amount of taxpayer money filling ICT and administrative tasks with temporary workers.
“The Public Service Commission said as early as 2017 that contingent labour should only be used when it is the most efficient and effective option available to respond to an agency’s business needs. It also recommended that agencies’ use contingent labour when informed by proper workforce planning.
“Premier Perrottet and his Treasurer have not done the work to comply with these recommendations.
“This challenge requires discipline and good judgment that Mr Perrottet and the Liberal-Nationals do not have.”
CHRIS MINNS MP
NSW LABOR LEADER
DANIEL MOOKHEY MLC
NSW SHADOW TREASURER
